So long as we think of them from a distance only and do not go to them, and until we try to remove their troubles after understanding them, one must know that we shall have done little for them.
-- Gandhi
Pardoned by Christ is a ministry started and ran by a good friend of mine who is a true giver of his heart and time to those that society has often turned their back on. Their objective's bottom line is the restoration of lives affected by incarceration. Lives reconciled to the Kingdom of God and to the community in which we live.
National Alliance to End Homelessness
The National Alliance to End Homelessness is a nonpartisan organization committed to preventing and ending homelessness in the United States. The Alliance’s Ten Year Plan identifies our nation's current challenges in addressing the problem and lays out practical steps that can be taken to change its present course and truly end homelessness.
The Durham Rescue Mission serves the Raleigh-Durham North Carolina community to meet, through the power of Jesus Christ the needs of the whole person: spiritual, educational, emotional, physical, social, and vocational, so that those who are hurting may become fully functioning members of society.
The mission of Matthew 25: Ministries is to fulfill Matthew 25:34-40 by providing nutritional food to the hungry, clean water to the thirsty, clothing to the naked, shelter to the homeless, medical care to the ill, and humanitarian supplies to prisoners.
The people we help are not receiving a handout, but a helping hand. It is only when a person’s most basic needs are met that one can become self reliant. Because of this belief, Matthew 25: Ministries has always placed an emphasis on education, job creation and providing aid to children.
Special Olympics of North Carolina
The mission of Special Olympics is to provide year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities, giving them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills and friendship with their families, other Special Olympics athletes and the community.
I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.
-- Maya Angelou