Serve

Serve

Host and Setup Teams
Marilyn Cupp

Children and Youth Mentor Teams
Children - Nancy Parker
Youth - Harold Huddleston

Adult Leaders for Learning
Cheryl Doely

Prayer Teams and Care Teams
David Doely

In the City for Good
Revitalizing the South Dallas/Fair Park community through the empowerment of residents and the support of community-based initiatives. For volunteer opportunities please email Junie Harrison, Exective Director, In The City For Good, or phone 214-549-1759. In the City for Good partnerships exist with the following South Dallas organizations:

North Dallas Shared Ministries (NDSM)
Emergency help for low/no income families in North Dallas. NDSM annually serves over 50,000 individuals and provides approximately $1 Million in food, $650,000 in medical care, $200,000 in rent assistance and $150,000 in utility assistance. It provides school supplies and uniforms to over 1,300 children, glasses to 900 adults and children, and the Free Medical Clinic meets the medical and dental needs of low-income working families without insurance or access to affordable health care. To volunteer, see the Volunteer Options, 186 kB PDF.

King of Glory is a covenant congregation of NDSM; consequently, members of KoG are eligible for assistance from NDSM, no matter where the member lives.

Network of Community Ministries
Through 68 local community service organizations and churches, including KoG, Network provides emergency services to residents of Richardson, Garland and North Dallas. Services include utility and rent assistance, food, counseling, school supplies and medical services through an on-site clinic. Applicants are interviewed and screened to verify their financial and employment status.

VNA Meals on Wheels
The Visiting Nurses Association of Texas has been providing home care and support services since 1934. Hot, nutritious home-delivered meals are provided to frail, ill homebound members of our community. Typically they are women over age 80, who live alone, are unable to prepare their own meals and are at or below the poverty line. In 2007, 7,000 meals were delivered within nine counties in North Central Texas.

Dallas Habitat for Humanity, Richardson Area Interfaith Habitat (RAIH)
RAIH is a construction arm of Dallas Habitat for Humanity, which raises money to build $40,000 homes. Habitat’s mission is to move low-income families with children from slum areas to new affordable homes of their own. The families are screened for credit, jobs, etc. and are trained on building and maintaining a home. They put in 400 hours of sweat equity for their down payment and receive a $50,000 no interest loan. RAIH recently completed its 24th home, and is committed to build two homes per year through 2010.

Dallas Ramp Project
The Dallas Ramp Project provides funds to buy pressure-treated lumber and plywood and expendable tooling for the purpose of building ramps with hand rails for any resident of Dallas or Collin counties who is not able to afford to have one built. This provides outside access to people who are otherwise often homebound because of major physical limitations. In 2007, 235 ramps were built by volunteers. Referrals for ramps are received from the Office on Senior Affairs, People Helping People, Parkland, Methodist, Baylor, Scottish Rite and St. Paul hospitals, as well as Texas Department of Human Services and individual social workers.

Texas Ramp Project
This program is an outgrowth of the Dallas Ramp Project to cities across the state. It is a 501(c) (3) corporation that is designed to provide on-site assistance in ramp building and training on how to establish similar programs in other areas. Since its inception in 2006, training has been provided to volunteers in Houston, Austin, San Antonio, Fort Worth, Amarillo, El Paso and other cities in North Central Texas where ramps are built each month.

Dallas Area Interfaith (DAI)
DAI is a multi-ethnic, multi issue group of religious congregations in the Dallas metropolitan area, which gives ordinary citizens a structure through which they can negotiate effectively with government and private institutions. They are a vehicle through which member congregations can become a force for promoting faith values and democratic traditions.

MOSAIC (Bethphage)
Mosaic is a social ministry of the ELCA, which serves and advocates for more than 3,400 people in 14 states, Great Britain, Latvia, Romania, Tanzania, and Kenya. Mosaic delivers services to people who have developmental disabilities and their families through residential, in-home, early intervention, prenatal, recreational, respite care, spiritual development, vocational training, and employment support. Locally the Dallas agency provides residential group homes, supported apartment living, supervised home living, host homes (foster care/companion care for those of 18 years of age), and vocational training. Areas of service include Dallas, Denton, and Rockwall counties. In August 2008 Mosaic celebrated its 22^nd anniversary of serving the Dallas area and the grand opening of its Document Destruction program through its Vocational Center.

Family Gateway, Inc.
Family Gateway, in cooperation with the religious community, private sector and governmental entities, provides comprehensive services to families with children who would otherwise be homeless. Services include temporary housing, job search and placement assistance, parenting and budgeting skills training, on-the-job training at Family Treasures Thrift Shop, transitional living apartments and community transition services. The objective is to restore dignity, stability and self-sufficiency. Over 209 families with 329 children were served in 2007.

Texas Lutheran University
A nationally ranked rigorous academic program. An environment where students grow and succeed. Exclusively undergraduate university of the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.Diverse student body of 1,400 students. Classes average fewer than 20 students.

Lutheran Seminary Program in the Southwest
An extension program to prepare people for ordained ministry. The LSPS Master of Divinity degree is accredited through Wartburg Seminary. LSPS expresses the mission commitment of both sponsoring seminaries by educating women and men to serve as pastors who have a clear focus on mission in multicultural contexts in the Southwest and other contexts of transition. LSPS cooperates with the Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest and Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary. The educational resources the schools offer are an essential component of LSPS as an ecumenical and mission-oriented community of theological education.

Lutheran Sunset Ministries
Sunset is a retirement home and assisted living center that serves Lutherans, located in Clifton, Texas. It was constructed in the late 1960’s with assistance through a grant by the Department of Health and Human Services, and is currently completing a capital campaign that will fund 24 additional assisted living apartments.

Dallas Oromo Mission
Oromos is a Lutheran refugee community from Africa that is worshiping at St. Luke Lutheran Church in Richardson, and is growing its ministry. King of Glory has helped fund this program, including the pastor salary and additional pastoral training, since its inception in 2006.

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