Stewardship
Providing Biblical education on investing in the Kingdom and communicating the impact of faithful stewardship throughout HPPC.

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Crown Financial Ministries
Providing a comprehensive financial ministry designed to equip the whole church to handle money from God’s perspective. Continually training disciples to be financially faithful in order to know Christ more intimately and to be freed to serve Him.

Staff Contact
Pamela Huntress, Administrative Associate,
214-526-1766 x1264, pam.huntress@hppc.org

The HPPC Benevolence Committee is actively involved in making disciples of Jesus Christ by supporting numerous faith based Christian ministries and institutions which present the Gospel as the way to transform lives and the world we live in. Annual financial support is provided for selected ministries that implement strategies to meet the spiritual, physical and educational needs of their constituency. The Benevolence Committee consists of 12 voting members and four advisors. Each member is a liaison to assigned Benevolence Committee supported faith-based organizations and acts as ministry advocates while maintaining communications between the Committee and supported organizations.

Austin Street Centre
ASC offers emergency shelter and meals for the homeless in a caring Christian community. 350+ men, women and children are provided with basic needs, food, clothing, personal care items, medications and access to medical and psychiatric clinics. A Step-Up Rehabilitation program and counseling services are also offered.

Central Dallas Ministries
Partnering with thousands of neighbors in Dallas and the surrounding area, as well as in San Antonio, to improve lives, families and communities through a variety of services. They are a community development-social justice ministry dedicated to addressing issues related to poverty, including hunger, health housing, law, children’s education and workforce development.

Dallas Christian Leadership
A group of SMU educators, alumni and friends committed to promoting Christian values in higher education settings. Their purpose is to strengthen the spiritual climate at SMU by ministering to the needs of faculty and staff and by providing fellowship luncheons with nationally known Christian speakers.

Dallas Leadership Foundation
Equipping, encouraging, and empowering Christians from across the Metroplex and beyond, for the task of rebuilding disadvantaged communities through reconciled relationships, and the releasing of God’s resources. The ministry is active in community development efforts, adult and youth leadership development and non-profit consulting.

Fair Park Friendship Center
FPFC helps people to help themselves by planting the seeds of Christian hope that builds self esteem. FPFC demonstrates Christ by meeting observable physical needs and breaks the cycle of poverty through education and adult literacy and Bible instruction. The center provides an after-school program for 150 kids, a food pantry and thrift store for more than 700 individuals and families and spiritual nurture for 200 through worship on Sunday and Wednesdays.

Evergreen Presbyterian Ministries
Evergreen’s mission is to help persons with mental disabilities live as independently as possible by providing excellent services and support in the ministry’s homes and in their communities.

First Presbyterian Church Stewpot
The Stewpot attacks the problems of poverty and homelessness, not just with a hand-out, but with a hand-up to those who can and do return to a productive life. The noon meal provides a framework for delivering a variety of needed social services to the homeless and at-risk of our city, including free dental and medical services, inner city youth programs, drug and alcohol counseling, identification documentation, employment assistance, mail service, and a representative payee program.

Good Shepherd Community Center
The mission provides quality, affordable, nurturing early childhood development education and after-school care for children in West Dallas with sensitivity to diverse cult ural needs. GSCC serves 80 to 85 children, ages 18 months to 5 years, from 6:30 am to 6 pm. The Center also provides before and after school services for 35 children ages 6 to 12 years. In addition, GSCC provides a food bank to serve families in the immediate neighborhood. It estimates that over 5,000 meals are served annually.

Goodland Presbyterian Children’s Home
The Goodland Presbyterian Children’s Home for boys is in Hugo, Oklahoma. This ministry is fulfilling Christ’s call to care for the neglected and abused, the least and the lost.

Grace Presbyterian Village Caring Fund
Motivated by a spirit of Christian love and concern for quality living, Grace Presbyterian Village Ministries seeks to be holistic in its program through contributing to the emotional, mental, physical, social and spiritual well-being of its residents by providing 320 older adults housing, long-term care, related services and community outreach. The Caring Fund provides the opportunity for low-income seniors to have the ability to be cared for at the Village.

Grace Maternity Homes
(formerly Dallas Life Ministries) Grace Maternity Home has four main goals: extending the life-changing power of Jesus Christ to women experiencing crisis pregnancies; helping clients develop skills which enable them to make sound, educated choices for themselves and their baby; providing clients with counseling to help them resolve critical issues in their lives; and by establishing a support network of friends/mentors who help the client make the transition back to independent living.

Habitat for Humanity
Dallas Area Habitat for Humanity is an ecumenical Christian ministry that builds affordable homes in partnership with low income families, churches and businesses.

Interfaith Housing Coalition
To provide three-month transitional housing, combined with programming in employment, budgeting, parenting, and living skills, for Dallas area homeless families. Interfaith’s most fundamental mission is to be the “hands of Christ” to families in need. Utilizing a holistic approach to attack the root causes of homelessness, Interfaith Housing Coalition empowers its residents to obtain full-time permanent employment, rebuild their lives and families and sustain long term self sufficiency.

Mendenhall Ministries
Meeting spiritual and physical needs of the rural poor in south central Mississippi, The Mendenhall Ministries (TMM) is the social outreach arm of the Mendenhall Bible Church (MBC), a nondenominational, predominantly black church located in Mendenhall, Mississippi. The ministry also has a Christian preschool and elementary school, co-op farm and pastor mentoring program.

Mainero Presbyterian Hospital
Located in Mexico, Mainero Presbyterian Hospital provides the only medical care available in the village and surrounding region.

Mi Escuelita Preschools
Mi Escuelita provides an early childhood program dedicated to teaching English to at-risk children of all cultures and developing their early learning skills in preparation for a successful school experience. Education, health, nutrition, speech, special services and parent involvement are areas of specialty.

Ministry Development Center of the Southwest
MDCSW provides vocational support and professional development programs for pastors.

National Coalition for the Protection of Children & Families/Center for Decency
NCPCF seeks to protect children and families from the harms of pornography and its messages by increasing public awareness, educa t i n g and partnering with pastors and church leaders and to provide education, information, and hope to those who have been harmed by pornography.

North Dallas Shared Ministries
The NDSM Emergency Aid Center addresses the needs of approximately 11,000 low-income households, including the elderly, disabled, benefit dependent, and homeless. To help persons help themselves, NDSM offers employment assistance and ESL and literacy classes. The NDSM free Medical Clinic for the Working Poor opened in April 2000, and offers immunizations, well baby/child checkups, annual and sports physicals, as well as treatment for working adults and their families without access to health care. The NDSM Clothes Closet and Thrift Shop provides free and low-cost clothing.

The Outreach Foundation
An independent organization of the PC (USA) that assists in promoting and funding evangelistic projects, ministries and missionaries.

Presbyterian Children’s Homes and Services
(Formerly Presbyterian Children’s Home and Agency and Presbyterian Children’s Home Waxahachie) Provides Christ centered care for children and families in need or c rises. Homes are located in Itasca, Waxahachie, Austin, San Antonio, Duncanville, Corsicana, Corpus Christi, Ft. Worth and Houston.

Small Church Help Fund
For the past 19 years, HPPC has been able to provide matching grants to churches in Grace Presbytery with congregations under 125 members. The purposes of the grants are for capital fund renovations or expansions.

Union Gospel Mission
The Union Gospel Mission men’s shelter, Calvert Place, provides overnight lodging and meals for up to 230 men per night. Bible studies and gospel services are held nightly to enable guests to hear the gospel and receive Jesus Christ and enter an environment where they can be nurtured in the Christian faith. A discipleship program is offered for individuals to transition back into productive lives. The new women and children’s shelter, Center of Hope, opened in February 2002. The Center provides food, lodging and clothing on an emergency basis and also has a discipleship program with transitional housing and life-skill classes centered on the Gospel.

Voice of Hope
Voice of Hope Ministries are centered around the youth leadership Development Programs offered in the Children’s Ministry (ages 4 to 11) and the Youth Ministry (ages 12 to 18). These programs include: after-school care and tutoring, weekly Bible clubs, the Recreation Ministry, Youth of Distinction Mentoring Club, S.A.T. prep classes, and an intensive eight-week summer day camp which includes job and financial training, as well as growth stimulating experiences. Family Support Services offers special seasonal activities, a re-sale store, parenting and family life-skill classes, and emergency assistance. Homeownership counseling, home repairs, community mobilization and urban renewal projects are now coordinated under our new Voice of Hope Community Development Corporation, which is a separate non-profit entity.

Youth Believing in Change
Youth Believing in Change is a Christian youth ministry focusing on character and leadership development. Located in the Vickery area, the ministry provides after-school programs including a reading club, chess club, music classes, computer lab and also runs a summer day camp.

Educational Institutions
Presbyterian Pan American School, Kingsville, Texas and Stillman College, Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Staff Contact
Pamela Huntress, Administrative Associate,
214-526-1766 x1264, pam.huntress@hppc.org