Mission
Welcome to the intersection of needs and resources.
We serve anyone in Columbia who is struggling to provide for their basic needs or improve their life and wants help to create a path forward. Many of the people we serve have nowhere else to turn. Often, they are under great stress and facing multiple challenges. Without intervention, many of their situations would become quite dire and result in a negative domino effect such as eviction leading to homelessness or unaffordable car repair leading to job loss.
Everyone needs hope and someone to accompany them on their journey. As one of our program participants said, “You believed in me until I could believe in myself.”
Our Mission.
To connect community relationships and resources to love people forward.
Our Vision.
To see individual lives and the community transformed through neighbors helping neighbors. We believe this is best done through a wholistic approach where we serve the whole person and engage the whole community. We are motivated and inspired by the extravagant love and selfless service of Jesus who sought out the most vulnerable and disadvantaged and lifted them up
Our Values.
1. Every person is created in the image of God, has intrinsic worth, and should be treated with dignity and respect.
2. A community flourishes best when we love our neighbors as our selves.
3. People trying to improve their lives or escape poverty often face complex barriers and need an individualized, multi-faceted approach that addresses informational, relational, material, and spiritual poverty.
4. Change best occurs in the context of relationship. We need one another in order to grow and must have positive relationships in order to take significant steps forward.
5. People who offer help are enriched and changed just as much, if not more, than those who receive help.
6. We can accomplish more if we work together. We avoid duplication, and everyone’s positive outcomes increase.
7. We have an abundance of time, talent, and resources in our community and, if they are well organized and engaged, everyone in the community will be lifted up.