Activities

Overview of Current Ministries

Food Program

Provide 500 meals a week to the elderly/shut-in, transients, needed families and disable individuals who are experiencing financial crises. Angel Food Ministries is another component of our food program that was founded in 1994 in Monroe, Georgia. Food boxes distributed consist of items necessary to feed a family of four for one week or a senior citizen for one month. Hope House Ministries delivered over 1,000 boxes to neighborhood families in 2008. In addition, Hope House Ministries has a food pantry where can goods and dry foods are purchased from the San Antonio Food Bank and distributed to low income families. Read more on our food program.

Workforce Program

Conduct six (6) eight-week sessions providing education and training to a total of 90 qualified adults a year in order to help them join the workforce. The target population includes alcoholic and drug addicts, low-income families, displaced workers, at-risk individuals who have not successfully completed their GED test, homeless and people on welfare. Each student works on short and long-term goals that have been determined on a one-on-one basis with a job developer. Life skills (including money management, parenting skills and anger management classes), as well as basic computer skills, resume writing, mock interviews are all geared toward promoting self-sufficiency and self-esteem to enable a student to obtain, and more importantly, to keep a job. Over 70% of individuals completing the program have been placed in positions throughout San Antonio with agencies such as Goodwill Industries and the City Maintenance Department. Learn more about our Workforce Program.

Clothing Program

Volunteers are accepting clothing items that are sorted, bundled and delivered to needy families. Various neighborhoods, including the Dominions, have been alerted and are now regular supplier of children and adult clothes and shoes. In addition, Hope House displays clothing article to give away to low-income families as well as the homeless in different neighborhoods once each month. Some of the clothes are also set aside for the Workforce Program to help graduates dress appropriately for job interviews. Read more on our Clothing Program.