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Caring Friends, Inc. undergirds efforts to serve, support and encourage the at-risk to realize their God given potential. We initiate these partnerships:: 1. Best Reader/Most Improved Reader program in elementary schools, and support a refugee student mentoring effort by Rice University students. 2. A 5th Ward biblically based job training class tied to promising employment […]

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Donors of Caring Friends sent 20 thermometers to Monrovia, Liberia on October 10th after vetting healthcare professionals across the USA about which infrared, non contact ones to buy. Liberian Bishop John Innis, President of the Monrovia Council of Churches and a United Methodist bishop, asked for help. Small rural villages and pockets of the Liberian […]

Start with strong biblical character teaching and testing over 12 weeks, combine that with job interviews, drug testing, and $15/hour job opportunities in the oil and gas industry, and you have a creative, visionary program being offered to 5th Ward men and women. From ex-offenders to the chronically unemployed to those looking to step up […]

Caring Friends looks first to encourage on the ground, hands on efforts to serve the underserved. If those serving the underserved resonate with good management and strong stewardship, we look for ways to collaborate or network that will advance mission goals in natural indigenous ways. When our encouragement and collaboration efforts seem productive, we look […]

Third grade reading scores often tell a lot about a child’s likelihood of spending time incarcerated. If you can’t read, you soon drop out of school and onto the streets where trouble is looking for you. Friends of Caring Friends collected, sorted, donated over 600 children’s books to Sylvan Rodriguez Elementary School in Houston’s hispanic […]