Resources
Below is a collection of organizations doing specific works in the Houston area. Browse by topic, and click to connect!
Topics
- Church Planting
- Pastor Resources
- Community Development
- Leading Collaboration
- Evangelism
- Prayer
- Campus Ministry
- Homelessness
- Jobs & Poverty
- Refugees & Racism
- Human Trafficking
- Schools
- Prisons
- Kids & Youth
- Single Moms & Orphans
Church Planting
Strengthening church planters to multiply churches that reach every man, woman and child in the greater Houston region.
Ministries responding to this area:
The Sojourn Houston Church Planting Residency is designed to equip pastors with the experience and resources necessary to plant an urban church.
GBC has always had a desire to glorify God by planting churches. In our earlier years, we partnered with our denomination (EFCA) in supporting several church plants, but now we have begun planting churches by sending out people from within GBC.
The Southern Baptists of Texas Convention Church Planting Ministry exists to help churches plant new churches & mobilize for missions in Texas and beyond.
As a family of church-planting churches we are about one thing: church planting. We exist to encourage, resource, facilitate, support and equip churches to plant churches that will plant church-planting churches!
Our mandate is to share God’s Word in Texas by planting new churches of all different sizes and ministry styles. The heart of our ministry is to connect people to a church where God is present, because when God shows up, good things happen.
As part of the Send Network, your kingdom impact can be greater and your support team stronger. Your passion to see the Church grow through church multiplication is possible.
If you have a dream in your heart to start a church and reach your city with the hope of Jesus, ARC is here to come alongside you in the journey. Our goal is to help you see that dream come true by providing necessary tools to help you launch and grow a life-giving church.
Churches in America are on the decline. Across all denominations, across all states, Gen X-ers and Millennials are either walking away from church or not looking for a church in the first place. Most fellowships have mobilized to plant new churches to reach new people with Good News.
Planting Churches Ministries was birthed out of a deep love for Jesus and a passion to see his church multiplied across North America. We exist to serve, equip and support those willing to charge headlong into the darkness with the light of the gospel.
The need for new churches in North America has never been greater. A growing number of people have never been part of a church. Many have never heard the gospel. New churches are the most effective kind of church in reaching this unchurched population.
Church planting continues to be a primary focus for the Anglican Church in North America.
Pastor Resources
Personal Spiritual Development:
Retreat Centers:
Counseling Services:
Hope and Healing Center
Theravive
Rejoice Counseling
Serenity Retreat
Better Days
Pastor Serve
STCH
Churches Offering Counseling:
Lakewood Church
Sagemont Church
Houston's First Baptist Church
Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church
Grace Bible Church
Christ the King Houston
Coaching Services:
Homelessness
Where collaboration is happening:
Every day, thousands of Houstonians struggle to rebuild their lives from the devastation of poverty, incarceration, domestic violence and homelessness. At MSM, we believe that no matter how dark your past, your future can be bright. That's why we provide a supportive community and holistic services to empower our community's most vulnerable to experience stability, purpose and renewal.
Star of Hope is a Christ-centered community dedicated to meeting the needs of homeless men, women and their children. Positive life changes are encouraged through structured programs which focus on spiritual growth, education, employment, life management and recovery from substance abuse.
Ministries working against homelessness:
Lord of The Streets is a church community that Welcomes, Restores and Rebuilds lives through relationship-focused ministries with the homeless and formerly homeless.
Open Door Mission is a faith and evidence-based recovery and rehabilitation program and facility helping the homeless in Houston TX since 1954. We’re dedicated to transforming the lives of the most severely addicted, destitute, homeless and disabled men in our community for free.
Alief Coalition for the Homeless has a goal of eradicating youth homelessness in Alief by partnering with local churches, businesses and non-profits.
We are servants of the Lord Jesus Christ, working with people struggling in poverty, homelessness, addiction and despair in Houston, Texas. We provide daily, outdoor church services and meals in impoverished communities. We serve individuals in homeless conditions, who are facing desperate situations with spiritual food for their souls and nutritious food for their bodies. Our focus and commitment is to see souls saved and saints edified!
The Mission of Yahweh offers many life-changing programs focused on ending the cycle of homelessness and dependency. These programs are education, case management, responsible resident program, and spiritual counseling.
Second Mile Mission Center helps Fort Bend County residents in poverty and crisis by providing basic needs and opportunities to take next steps in their lives. While people are drawn to Second Mile for immediate needs such as food or health care, many begin to shift their focus to long-term goals of self-sufficiency for themselves and their family.
The Beacon is a non-profit organization that serves the Houston homeless community through daily services, civil legal aid, counseling and mentoring and access to housing. Our mission is to provide essential and next-step services to restore hope and help end homelessness in Houston.
One of the defining ministries of Impact Church of Christ has always been its outreach to the homeless and marginalized. Some of our dearest members and most memorable relationships have come from that population over the years.
Since 2001, Crossroads At Park Place has been a Christian daycare organization committed to promoting the health, hygiene and dignity of persons experiencing homelessness and poverty in Southeast Houston, Texas.
Since 1988 The Harbor has been helping those who are addicted or homeless to achieve permanent change in their lives.
Vision: To end homelessness and improve the quality of life of those in need. Mission: Sustain, equip and transform those in poverty and the low to moderate income communities with compassion and dignity.
The Life Center is dedicated to serve, educate and represent the Homeless of Houston. Through the operation of a short-stay residential facility, and the combination of an educational program, an in-house work program and group counseling sessions, The Life Center hopes to impart sufficient work and basic living skills, along with a positive and focused mental attitude to Homeless individuals so they can take their proper place as productive and stable members of today’s society.
New Hope Housing’s core purpose is to provide life-stabilizing, affordable, permanent housing with support services for people who live on very limited incomes. Our vision is to be an enduring institution serving Houston’s most vulnerable citizens.
The Coalition for the Homeless of Houston/Harris County is a private, nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide leadership in the development, advocacy, and coordination of community strategies to prevent and end homelessness.
Since 1989, SEARCH has been providing hope, creating opportunity, and transforming lives for thousands of men, women, and children who are trying to break free from the cycle of poverty and homelessness. At SEARCH, we maintain a vision of a Houston without homelessness.
Community Development
At Agape Development, we are transforming our neighborhood by preparing Christ-following, independent, community leaders.
Cornerstone Family Ministries mission is to catalyze the local church toward community engagement and restoration.
Strategically located in Houston's Greater Third Ward. The FORGE is a Christ-centered urban ministry that works with the family in a holistic way.
Hope House is a ministry of Outpost Fellowship, a 501(c)(3) devoted to promoting community transformation in urban Houston. It is a small community of 13 houses located at 5511 Crane St. near Houston’s Fifth Ward. Our mission is to promote community transformation in zip code 77026 through the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
The Old Town Spring Heights Task Force (OTSHTF) is a group of six area churches which have come together to make an impact for Christ in the community of Old Town Spring Heights. We are different in ethnicity, culture and denomination but we all worship the same LORD and are continually blessed and uplifted through relationships that are being made and deepened within the community of Old Town Spring Heights.
Leading Collaboration
UBA is an association of churches who believe we can do more together than can be done apart. Together, we ask questions, discover learning, hone strategies, and equip each other for the task ahead. We do it together because it can't be done any other way.
The Somebody Cares mission is to let people know that Somebody Cares. Because Jesus cares, we the Church care. As a result, through grassroots efforts, communities are being transformed and the Church is uniting. This is unity with a purpose.We mobilize Christians into evangelism, thereby transforming communities. We seek to identify ministries that empower people to reach their full potential and become all that God envisioned when He created them. By standing side by side with our neighbors, we help them reclaim their community. We do not take over or do for others what they can do for themselves. Rather, we empower them so that they can do for themselves. Together, we are advancing the Gospel and building the Kingdom of God through compassion. None of this would have significant Kingdom impact without a constant commitment to personal integrity, family intimacy, and unified church interactions. Together, we glorify God better!
The Get Together is an open network of business people who collaboratively use their business expertise, resources and networks to meet significant needs of local, Christ-centered nonprofits...all over lunch.
Our vision is to be a place where the glory of God is able to flourish, filling individuals and the house, in order to equip each one in the nature of God and in their purpose, and in effectively shifting cultures.
As Christ Together, we are seeing faithful leaders and churches partner together to see the whole Church bring the whole Gospel to the whole Nation. We are churches and kingdom leaders, networks and denominations, and we desire to serve churches and their leaders through providing a way for THE CHURCH to join God on His mission. We initiate conversations and create environments for kingdom leaders to pray, learn, strategize and act in concert with God’s vision in their community, town, city or region.
The Mission of Compassion Katy is to serve families and individuals by being “Compassion in Action” in Katy TX and West Houston. We will engage and activate people and organizations to alleviate hardship and those under-resourced; elevating hearts, minds and spirits, empowering people to move forward with purpose and hope.
We exist to demonstrate the kingdom, make Jesus famous, and to be the answer to Jesus’ prayer to be one.
Evangelism
Where collaboration is happening
The MISSION is to plant the Gospel in unreached soil globally and locally. The MULTIPLICATION is realized by disciples making disciples who are rooted in Christ’s love. This MOVEMENT is set apart by disciple making that spreads through relational networks that encourage and enable churches to reproduce multiple streams and generations. Existing churches are MOBILIZED to make disciples of all nations through M4 helping to equip and send their disciples.
#NoPlaceLeft is a movement of movements aimed at getting to no place left where Christ is not made known in our generation.
We exist to mentor, disciple, and serve at-risk youth and their families.
In a world that is noisier than ever, with so many opinionated voices and dubious ideas vying for our attention, where do we find truth? Whose voice do we trust?The Gospel Coalition believes the answer to both questions is Jesus Christ, and we exist to help people navigate the dizzying, deafening noise by hearing more clearly his voice, “the words of eternal life” (John 6:68) that are the only source of ballast and whose death provides the only source of true transformation in our unsteady, sin-sick world.
"Until Every Home of Houston is Reached"
Equipping believers to multiply in and through local churches worldwide. Every nation equipping every people group and every age group to witness to every person.
Matthew 28:19-20 contains what has come to be called the
Great Commission. “Therefore go and make disciples of all
nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the
Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey
everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you
always, to the very end of the age.”
Christ gave this command to the apostles shortly before He
ascended into heaven, and it essentially outlines what
Christ expected the apostles, and those who followed them,
to do in His absence. Join us for our Inner City Outreach
(Bless Initiative)!
St. Paul Street Evangelization is a grassroots, non-profit organization, dedicated to responding to the mandate of Jesus to preach the Gospel to all nations by taking our Catholic Faith to the streets. We do this in a non-confrontational way, allowing the Holy Spirit to move in the hearts of those who witness our public Catholic presence.
This ministry intends to present the gospel to those who the Lord allow us to and to invite them to church, it is an opportunity for every believer of Good Shepherd to fulfill their responsibility to share the gospel.
Child Evangelism Fellowship® (CEF) has been taking the love of Christ to children since 1936. We have workers in over 150 countries worldwide and reaches over 5 million children each year. Our passion is to evangelize children, disciple them in the Word of God, and establish them in Bible-teaching churches.
It is our goal to reach the incarcerated for Christ in Federal, State and local prisons, jails, and detention centers throughout the United-States and beyond.
Prayer
Where collaboration is happening:
Transformation of the City Of Houston By The Presence of Almighty God In response to 24/7 intercessory prayer.
Other ministries inviting people to join in prayer :
“I will give them a heart to know me, that I am the Lord. They will be my people, and I will be their God, for they will return to me with all their heart.” JEREMIAH 24:7
The Great Southwest Prayer Center, also known as GSWPC, is a geographic location set apart as a place of prayer. It is located inside the Mansion of Grace Fellowship United Methodist Church’s campus. In The Great Southwest Prayer Center are many prayer stations to encourage and enhance prayers for the church, Methodism, singles, marriages, families, ‘community’, the city of Katy, the United States, the nations, our leaders, healing, freedom, the unborn, Jerusalem, the lost and much more. There are two prayer rooms. The Call Room and Jordan’s Crossing are cozy, peaceful places to retreat to spend time alone with God. These rooms may be reserved. If you like praying in the evening, night or early morning, a larger prayer room, the Moravian Room, is available 24/7 with a convenient bathroom. The Moravian Room cannot be reserved. The Great Southwest Prayer Center also houses Audience of One or A-1: live worship and prayer to our Audience of One. Our desire is that one day this will happen 24/7.
The Prayer Room at Calvary is one of the primary places where we give corporate expression to the culture of prayer at Calvary Community Church. The Prayer Room at Calvary it exists to minister to God in intimate worship, and partner with Him in prayer for our city and the nations of the earth.
Mosaic House of Prayer is a missions base fueled by night and day prayer and worship preparing for the return of JESUS. We are committed to raising up people who pursue intimacy with GOD and vibrant community who is equipped and prepared for the age to come.
We are passionate about loving God and demonstrating His love to the people around us. We exist to worship Jesus, teach the Bible, develop spiritual gifts, and transform the communities around us with the love of Christ.
It is very satisfying to be a part of something bigger than ourselves. We invite you to do something that none of us could do alone. To engage in a prayer and worship movement that is sweeping the world with believers from every denomination, background and language coming together in unity pursuing the presence of God. Imagine non-stop prayer with worship, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year right here in our city. Together we can do it, because Jesus is worthy of it.
Campus Ministry
Through a variety of missions and ministry opportunities, as well as personal relationship with staff and fellow students, HABSM offers students a way to engage life, their studies and their future in a holistic, Christ centered way. We work with a variety of local churches and individuals who make this work possible. If you would like more information on how to be a part of this ministry, please contact us.
Win, build and send Christ-centered multiplying disciples
InterVarsity Christian Fellowship at UH is an active campus ministry, full of students who love God and actively follow Jesus and also students who just want to know more about who Jesus is! We invite to come join us and get to know more about the joy of life with Jesus.
RUF is a place for the convinced and the unconvinced, the churched and un-churched, the burned, the bored, the run-down, or the refreshed. It is a place to bring your doubts and your questions to understand more about Christianity and what the radical love of Jesus is all about. No matter who you are or what you believe you are welcome to join us as we gather to love God, to love people, and to love the University of Houston.
Reaching the world for Christ by mobilizing multi-ethnic leaders.
We are a Spirit-empowered, diverse community of believers on university campuses, declaring in word and lifestyle our faith in Jesus Christ, equipped to fulfill our purpose in God’s global plan.
The Wesley Foundation is a campus ministry for students at The University of Houston. We meet weekly for worship, bible study, small groups, and prayer. Started through The United Methodist Church as a place for spiritual and emotional support for students of all ethnicity and religious backgrounds.
Jobs & Poverty
WorkFaith is a Christ-centered organization that exists to encourage disadvantaged job seekers in their hope for a better future and to equip them with the skills and beliefs to gain employment and lead healthy, productive and spiritually rich lives. We have served the job seekers of Houston for over 10 years.
Our vision is to empower people to attack poverty in their life and community by strengthening under-resourced communities through spiritual growth, education, revitalization, and basic needs.
An international nonprofit providing training, resources and support for Spiritual Development and stability of at-risk youth, foster children, families in crisis and their caretakers.
Refugees & Racism
The Y helps newcomers restore hope, build stability, create opportunity and change futures.
Houston has one of the nation’s largest refugee and immigrant populations. We can provide help with immigration legal services, such as citizenship application assistance. We also can assist government-approved refugees become self-sufficient through essential skills.
Mobilizing our city to welcome refugees with compassion, hope and honor as they resettle and start a new life in Houston.
Fair Trade Friday exists as an avenue for women to empower women. We are tackling poverty through dignified job opportunity, rather than enablement, in Jesus’ name. 100% of the proceeds support the artisans, thousands of women and their children around the world. FTF is a ministry of Mercy House Global, a non-profit organization.
Project CURATE is a social impact enterprise and intersectional justice collaborative specializing in race and religion. Through various mediums, we focus on on building social and intellectual community toward addressing community and civic challenges in Houston, TX and abroad.
Human Trafficking
Where collaboration is happening:
Freedom Church Alliance exists to engage the Church as a unified, collaborative Body to make a greater impact on the anti-human trafficking movement.
Ministries working against human-trafficking:
Our mission is to end sex trafficking through prayer, awareness, intervention, and restoration.
The Landing exists as a daytime drop-in center at the
intersections of life—a place of comfort and rest for
all-aged male, female, and transgender victims of human
trafficking or sexual exploitation. We encourage and empower
survivors to become independent by meeting basic needs and
increasing awareness of the resources available to
survivors.
Through personal case management and action planning, our
intention is to meet people where they are—wherever it may
be—and support them throughout their journey. We are
fortunate to have a committed group of volunteers and staff
who believe in our mission and the people we cross paths
with everyday. While inclusivity and understanding start at
our doors, the faithful support of donors, volunteers, and
staff help keep them open.
Rescue Houston partners with those who want to offer hope to victims of sex trafficking and sexual exploitation via secure phone calls and text messages. Our phone banks are one of the most profound and effective anti-sex trafficking volunteer opportunities out there. To reach every woman and man who posts sex ads in Houston, we need multiple phone banks filled with trained advocates calling them with messages of hope and freedom every day.
Our mission has always been to offer restoration services to adult survivors of domestic sex trafficking with a trauma-informed, holistic healing program and the support of our community partners.
Arrow’s Freedom Place is a Christ-centered care and recovery center for underage female victims of domestic child sex trafficking. It is the first long-term, comprehensive care facility in Texas for underage victims of domestic child sex trafficking and is one of only five such facilities in the United States. Our mission is to offer a successful path to freedom for American children who have suffered as victims of commercial sexual exploitation.
Free the Captives is a faith-based anti-human trafficking 501(c)(3) non-profit that fights the exploitation and trafficking of Houston’s youth. We engage and mobilize the Christian community while partnering with non-profits, law enforcement, and government agencies in the fight against modern day slavery.
A non-profit coffee shop which sends profits to help ministries working against trafficking. Helping the survivors of human trafficking right here in Houston one cup at a time.
Mission at Serenity Ranch (MSR) is a non-profit, public charity founded in 2010 by Cheryl Briggs. MSR advocates for victims of human trafficking. “My Daughter's House” is a restoration program, which Cheryl developed to ensure that human trafficking victims obtain appropriate services and the tools they need to transform into survivors and overcomers.
Victims of human trafficking are subjected to force, fraud,
or coercion, for the purpose of sexual exploitation or
forced labor. Human trafficking victims are children,
teenagers, men, women, U.S. citizens and immigrants. It
happens in homes, at businesses, in schools, in malls, etc.
No person or place is exempt from falling victim.
As the fourth largest city in the country, Houston’s
diversity makes it easy for trafficking victims to blend in
with the general population. United Against Human
Trafficking is ending human trafficking through awareness,
education, and outreach.
Love146 is an international human rights organization working to end child trafficking and exploitation through survivor care and prevention. The trafficking and exploitation of children is one of the darkest stories and most severe human rights abuses imaginable. But for us, the hope of ending it is a reality. Love146 is helping grow the movement to end child trafficking while providing effective, thoughtful solutions. We believe in the power of love and its ability to effect sustainable change. Love is the foundation of our motivation.
The Mayor’s office has a task force to end human trafficking in Houston.
Inform, educate, and defend.
Schools
Where collaboration is happening:
Loving Houston inspires, equips, and resources churches to build long-term relationships with local schools so that every child, parent, and teacher can experience Jesus’ love in a tangible way. We have helped start over 40 new church-school partnerships, resulting in hundreds of new volunteers now serving our schools in Jesus’ name. Would you join us in this work?
Kids Hope USA builds life-changing relationships one at a time: One Child. One Hour. One School. One Church.
Prisons
Where collaboration is happening:
Men who have been imprisoned face tremendous challenges as they try to reintegrate back into society. Returning citizens need advocates, guides, and encouraging re-entry coaches to walk alongside them upon release from prison and as they re-enter, transitioning to live out their faith in freedom. CrossWalk Center bridges critical social services and discipleship ministry between prison life and freedom. We offer hope and a future apart from broken prison life to whole-hearted intentional living as the unique individuals God originally created and intended them to be.
Kairos Prison Ministry International, Inc. (Kairos) is a Christian faith based ministry which addresses the spiritual needs of incarcerated men, women, youth, and their families. By sharing the love and forgiveness of Jesus Christ, Kairos hopes to change hearts, transform lives and impact the world.
Houston reVision works to break the cycle of isolation among the most profoundly disconnected youth, most of whom are caught up in the juvenile justice system. By connecting one kid at a time to caring adults, positive peers and a program that works, we offer disconnected youth the opportunity to revision hopeful pathways.
Freestyle Ministries is a nonprofit 501(c)3 whose mission is to educate, equip, and inspire youth within juvenile justice facilities and high-risk communities to develop a relationship with Jesus, to develop and maintain positive lifestyle changes, and to use their God-given gifts and talents to create change in their generation.
At C.H.A.R.M. Prison Ministry, we look beyond the criminal and see a person. We see prisoners as people made in God’s image, people worth getting to know. Through one-on-one relationships, we introduce them to the hope found only in Jesus Christ and lead them to reconciliation with God. We stand with them while they’re inside the walls and walk beside them as they transition back into society. With the love of Christ, we take them by the hand as He leads them out of their past and transforms their hearts and minds, their lives, their relationships, their futures.
Free Indeed Reentry Services is a church-based outreach ministry in the Northeast Houston (Homestead Road) area serving ex-offenders and their families since 2003.
PEP is dedicated to delivering the nation’s best outcomes in the prison re-entry field. We provide unparalleled resources and real-world values-based business skills to inmates so that once they are back in society they have the tools, skills and support structure to pursue healthy, fulfilling and productive lives.
Our mission is to build the capacity of women coming home from prison to the Houston area by expanding their support in the faith community.
Kids & Youth
Cy-Hope serves as a catalyst to bring needs and solutions together, bringing hope to at-risk children so they will grow into educated and productive citizens. This will, in turn, make a lasting and positive impact on the community of Cy-Fair. Our vision at Cy-Hope is to rally our entire community: businesses, education, churches, civic organizations, hospitals, and individual volunteers to advance the goal of making life better for kids in Cy-Fair.
To provide life changing early childhood education.
YFC reaches young people everywhere, working together with the local church and other likeminded partners to raise up lifelong followers of Jesus who lead by their godliness in lifestyle, devotion to the Word of God and prayer, passion for sharing the love of Christ and commitment to social involvement.
Our Vision: Every adolescent will have the opportunity to meet Jesus Christ and follow Him. Our Mission: Introducing adolescents to Jesus Christ and helping them grow in their faith. We accomplish our mission by ... Praying for young people. Going where kids are. Building personal relationships with them. Winning the right to be heard. Providing experiences that are fun, adventurous and life-changing. Sharing our lives and the Good News of Jesus Christ with adolescents. Inviting them to personally respond to this Good News. Loving them regardless of their response. Nurturing kids so they might grow in their love for Christ and the knowledge of God's Word and become people who can share their faith with others. Helping young people develop the skills, assets and attitudes to reach their full God-given potential. Encouraging kids to live connected to the Body of Christ by being an active member of a local congregation. Working with a team of like-minded individuals — volunteer leaders, committee members, donors and staff.
Single Moms & Orphans
Gracewood rescues children and their single mothers, ensuring a bright future by providing home, hope, and healing.
The Orphan Care Network exists to help the Church care for foster and adoptive families. We know that the problem of caring for children who have no one to care for them is difficult and can be hard to find a place to start.
BACK 2 BASICS MINISTRY is a non-profit 501(c)(3) ministry that brings the love of God to abused, neglected and forgotten people. We provide healthy, loving relationships, and address individual spiritual, emotional, and material needs. We focus primarily on, but not limited to, teenagers in Harris and Montgomery County shelters, mental health facilities, foster homes, and similar systems, as well as those on the streets.