by Marilyn Flores Calvin Balca and Jose Zezatti have graduated from the Work Faith Connections Program! Calvin and Jose, who also graduated from our Life House recently, are the first participants of the Life House to go through the 8-day job search workshop successfully. They had to apply, participate in the selection interview process, and
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by Marilyn Flores One of the primary goals of our Impact Resource Center and Arms of Hope partnership is use our existing ministries to springboard into deeper and more transformative relationships with families. The month of May was a great example of that and hopefully something we can also build on. We used our Health
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By Paul Woodward Life is mysterious. As a man of faith, I have felt the hand of God too many times to discount its existence. Too many times I have seen an outcome in someone’s life that utterly defies their circumstances – those times especially convince me there is more to life than meets the
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by Tyler Lemmons I would like to share one of my favorite memories from the recently completed year 6 of Impact Mentoring. One week, through the suggestion of one of our mentors, we had a creative project in which all the pairs participated. The theme of the lesson was evaluating what type of image we
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by Marilyn Flores, Arms of Hope Case Manager The morning of February 4, 2019 Joe Martinez got baptized. It was an amazing moment and such an honor to be able to witness it. Joe is a very shy and reserved person, and only allowed 6 people to be there. Joe was homeless when he came
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by Leslie Salinas Meet Ms. Juana Perez (name changed to protect her identity), a single mother of two girls (8 and 2 years old) and a sweet little boy that is 5. She recently reached out to Arms of Hope in the hope of receiving rental assistance. The father of her children had left her
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by Leslie Salinas Meet Paul Mireles, who is a very special client to me and whose story I will try to tell the best I can. I met Paul in 2015 when he came into my office and asked me for help, but Paul has been a devoted and beloved member of the Impact community
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by Carlos Inglés, Bilingual Minister In the Bible the church is known as a flock, as a body, and as a building, but the description I like the most is a family. It is said that we do not choose our families and this is true – our job is simply to accept and to
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Ask any organization who has a clothes ministry and they will tell you that managing the clothes is one of the most difficult aspects of their work. Providing clothes requires a tremendous amount of dedicated space to store and then display them and a multitude of volunteers to keep them organized. And since the clothes
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My biggest source of encouragement always comes from the adults that volunteer for our mentoring program. Time and again I am blown away by their love, dedication, and initiative. Over the last few months, there have been many instances of mentors who are working on something on their own time to meet a need of
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It’s time to start working on the needs for our upcoming campus extension at Lindale! To donate or for questions or leads on how to acquire any of the following items contact Dennis Jaeger at *protected email*
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This summer 400 elementary-aged children will attend one of three concurrent 6-week long VBS camps at Impact. They will attend 4 full days a week of Bible instruction, singing, fun activities, literacy classes, service projects, field trips, and meals. 150 Middle School and High School youth will, for 4 days a week for 8 weeks,
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