Author Archives: Caring Friends

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 […]

Caring Friend donors provided $125 student scholarships for 12 children to attend school for one year in a rural area outside of Pignon, Haiti. Each scholarship provided books, tuition, and supplies. New donors have provided 100 St. Collette students with a beans and rice lunch (25 cents/meal) five days a week for five months of […]

Caring Friend donors provided a washer and dryer for Spirit Key, Inc in December. Spirit Key is a residential ‘re-entry’ center for homeless veterans and ex-offenders who want to live in a faith based, drug free environment as they find a job and reenter the work force. The washer and dryer will run virtually 24/7 […]