House of Hope Ministry

Christmas in the Park: Purpose is to provide a Christmas experience to low income families in the trailer park communities. This includes coordinating, wrapping, and distributing donated items to the families on Christmas Eve via an "adopt-a-family" format. In 2020, 156 children and 100 adults were blessed with toys, clothing, essentials, and grocery gift cards to get them through the holiday season. Each person received an average of 5 gifts, totaling 1,280 gifts donated.

Youth Nights: purpose is to provide a safe space for positive experiences for the youth in the trailer park communities. Youth nights meet once per week at each of the two locations and serve about 50 youth total. This program was suspended for part of 2020 in order to follow COVID regulations.

Assistance: Purpose is to alleviate hardships, financial burden, and the hunger crisis experienced within the trailer park community. During the Covid19 crisis in 2020, daily lunch sacks were distributed to children who had to do eLearning from home and did not have a way to get the school-assisted lunches. 50 sack lunches were created per day from mid-March to mid-April. Then starting in were distributed per week from mid-April until the end of May. A local farm then donated almost $5,000 of fresh produce and whole chickens between the months of June through December. This was provided to approximately 30 trailer park families.

This contains all other programs, including blessing box, clothing donation closet, community BBQ, Easter, Mentoring, SpringHill camp, Wagener camp, visitation, and other programs/special events.