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The work of PAIR (Partnership for the Immersion and Advancement of Refugees) begins with university students at Rice and U of H welcoming, nurturing, leading, and tutoring new refugees settling into Houston. The junior counsellor program is not only heart warming but inspiring: refugee students who know the fears, the language challenges, and the feeling […]

A jobs program linked with a faith based, practical, holistic, 12 week training initiative is finally getting traction. A private company in the oil and gas services industry is offering $14 jobs for those whose attitudes and work ethic indicate they are ready to interview, pass drug testing, and be employed. For many of the […]

Implemented by the vision and teaching of pastor Wilford Darden in the 5th Ward in Houston, and generously undergirded and extraordinarily empowered by Brand Energy Services, a biblically based, character development employment initiative is underway among Houstonians out of work and often chronically unemployed. Hundreds have applied and are on waiting lists to take the […]

Caring Friends director John Collier was part of a Houston team with Sunny Sharma and Vicki Brentin that met February 27th in Port au Prince with 35 Haitian hospital administrators, medical directors, and doctors to vet the need and to present ideas for a medical equipment repair center in Haiti Caring Friends has been a […]

Some of the gifts made possible by donors to Caring Friends in 2013. Good Reader Book awards: 200 students at risk. One meal a day: 200 Haitian children get bowl of rice/beans Booker T. Washington “Leading The Way” awards: Pro Vision Veterans/Ex-Offenders Faith Based Center: washer/dryer for 25 men Medical testing devices: biomed repair center […]

Hats off to WUMC for collecting children’s books and coats for our urban ministry with and among the underserved. Many children in the Gulfton area schools come from non English speaking families and have few if any books. In Houston many families assume mild weather year round and get hit hard when discretionary money is […]