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Central's Missionaries in Memphis
Rev. Bob Freudiger, - Executive Director of Calvary Rescue Mission
MISSION STATEMENT:
Calvary Rescue Mission will share the Good News and abundance of life eternal through Jesus Christ.
HOW TO CONTACT: 901-775-2570 or see website
METHODS USED TO FULFILL MISSION STATEMENT:
We have a chapel service every night and the Gospel is preached at that time. We also have counseling and prayer afterwards & use some seminary students for that purpose. During special holiday events we go out into the community & help, feed and witness to our neighbors.
HOW VOLUNTEERS CAN SERVE:
Serving supper, cooking supper, providing supper, helping in chapel services, fixing up the building and grounds
LOCATION: 960 S. Third
Lauri Graves, - Executive Director of Multi-National Ministries
Mission: Immigrant and refugee children in downtown Memphis
Mission Organization: A program of Memphis Leadership Foundation
How to reach her: laurie@mlfonline.org or 1548 Poplar Avenue, Memphis, TN 38104, 901-274-7226 ( website)
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Current responsibilities: Multi-National Ministries presents the Gospel to immigrants and refugees in midtown Memphis. The ministry focuses on students who attend Bellevue Middle School and Bruce Elementary School.
Ministry news: This summer Multi-National Ministries will take approximately 150 young people to Camp Cordova. One week will be for elementary children and a second week will be for teenagers. The camps will provide a prime opportunity to present the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Multi-National Ministries will also transport kids to Vacation Bible Schools and group functions such as swimming parties and picnics. The ministry also will sponsor a Monday through Friday reading program for up to 30 children.
Current prayer request: Pray for opportunities to share the Gospel with the youth and that the Holy Spirit would work in their hearts to help them understand His truth.
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Mission Organization: Teen Challenge
How to reach him: tcmdirector@aol.com
or Teen Challenge, 33 North Cleveland, Memphis, TN 38104 ( website)
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Current responsibilities: Teen Challenge is a ministry to men 17 and older with life-controlling problems such as drug and alcohol abuse. Our 12-month residential program strives to help the whole man, not just the substance abuse. Through our Christ-centered, Bible-based educational programs, counseling and work programs, we give the students as many advantages as possible when re-entering society. Judges, who would rather send a young man to Teen Challenge than send him in jail, appoint some students. The success rate at Teen Challenge is consistently 70-86 percent, compared to a 5-10 percent success rate for public/private short-term inpatient drug programs.
Ministry news: One of Teen Challenge's goals for the near future is to expand the ministry facilities to accommodate 50 students; currently they can house only 30 students. Teen Challenge is in the process of trying to acquire surrounding property so that we can remodel the existing building and add on.
Current prayer request: Pray for the young men who come to Teen Challenge. Most of exhausted every avenue and are without monetary or family support. Also pray for the staff that they may have wisdom and patience in helping the students.
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How to reach them: email: bmc4life@bellsouth.net or suepark@bellsouth.net
Raleigh Clinic - Administrative, medical, and counseling
5575 Raleigh LaGrange Rd., Memphis, TN 38134
(901)388-1172
Cooper Young Clinic - Medical and counseling
806 South Cooper Street
Memphis, TN 38104
(901)274-8895
24-Hour Helpline - (901)388-6262
www.lifechoicesmemphis.org
www.pregnantwanthelp.com
Current Responsibilities: Life Choices of Memphis exists to provide a non-judgmental and Christ-like environment designed to educate and empower women to make life-affirming decisions. Life Choices is the only evangelically oriented pregnancy help medical clinic and adoption agency serving Shelby County.
Volunteer Opportunities:
Client Advocate working one-on-one with clients
24-Hour Helpline Volunteer
Development Support Volunteer
Church Liaison involving your church
Medical personnel volunteer
Cradle Care Family caring for our adoption babies
Prayer Warrior
Ministry News: Life Choices partnered with Focus on the Family in 2007 and is now a medical/ministry center offering free ultrasounds to women in unplanned pregnancies in hopes that they will choose life for their babies as well as eternal life for themselves. We are excited to announce the opening of our second location serving our community in the Midtown area of Memphis, 806 South Cooper Street, 38104. In 2007, Life Choices saw 65 people pray to receive Christ Jesus as Savior. Please pray for their continued walk with the Lord.
Keith and Beth Lamb (children: Jonah, Rose, and Joses)
Mission Organization: Child Evangelism Fellowship
How to reach them: email
or 2091 Lee Place, Memphis, TN 38104 (901 726-9084)
Home email:
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Current responsibilities: To evangelize boys and girls with the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ and to disciple them in the Word of God and in a local church for Christian Living. CEF seeks to develop neighborhood Bible studies for children and to strengthen existing children's ministries within churches. CEF current conducts several local evangelistic programs for children. Good News Clubs are weekly neighborhood Bible clubs that meet in day care center, schools and community centers; 5-Day Clubs meet one hour a day for five days during the summer. Monthly and Party Clubs are Bible clubs that meet monthly or seasonally during holidays. Camp Good News is a series of three one-week camp sessions in the summer that can accommodate up 40 girls and 40 boys. Tel-A-Story is a local telephone number that kids can call to hear the gospel through Bible stories. CEF also sponsors programs to help teach adults to evangelize children.
Ministry news: CThere are 213 campers registerd with 77 staff trained and ready for camp. The camp program runs June 20 through July 10.
Current prayer request: Pray for the children to be saved, and to learn new reasons to sing God's praise. Pray for the staff as they prepare their hearts to serve. Pray for safety for the campers and staff.
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Mission Organization: Service Over Self
How to reach him:email
or Service Over Self, 2505 Poplar Avenue, Memphis, TN 38112, 901-681-9044 ( website).
Current responsibilities: SOS exists to glorify God by proclaiming the gospel of Jesus Christ in word and deed through urban home repair camps. As an expression of Christ's love, SOS seeks to empower persons and transform neighborhoods by utilizing volunteers to renovate homes of disadvantaged homeowners in Memphis.
Ministry news: SOS is recruiting college ministries to attend our Spring 04 mission camps and college students to serve on our 04 summer staff.
Current prayer request: pray for the spiritual leadership and wisdom of the staff of SOS, and that people would come to know and love Jesus Christ through SOS.
Mission Organization: Olford Ministries International
How to reach them:
or Olford Ministries International
PO Box 757800, Memphis, TN 38175-7800 (901-757-7977)
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Current responsibilities: OMI's motto is "ministry to ministers is ministry to multitudes." OMI is designed to encourage and uplift pastors so that they are better prepared to nurture and lead their congregations. OMI uses training Institutes and Workshops to train pastors and lay leaders in expository preaching. OMI also is involved in producing audio and videotapes, publishing books and radio. The Stephen Olford Center for Biblical Preaching also hosts special events such as the Christian Life Convention, held in the spring and fall.
Current prayer request: For God's anointing and enabling for preaching and teaching. For wisdom and direction to prioritize OMI's many opportunities of service. For financial under girding of ministry operations and for scholarship funding for attendees.
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Executive Director: George Kuykendall
Director of Victim Assistance: Carol Wiley
Mission Organization: Citizens for Community Values of Memphis, Inc.
How to reach them: Address, P. O. Box 770775 Memphis, TN 38177-0775; Phone: (901) 685-1493; Email George at
or Carol at
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Current responsibilities:The Executive Director, George Kuykendall oversees all the activities and ministries under CCV's umbrella and he is the one who heads up CCV's "Fight for Decency" in Memphis and the Mid-South.
The Director of Victim Assistance, Carol Wiley is in charge of the "A Way Out" Victim Assistance Program and of other victim assistance concerns that result from the harms of pornography and the sex-oriented businesses.
Mission Statement: The CCV mission is to inspire, motivate and mobilize citizens, community leaders and elected officials to take action against sexual exploitation and pornography so that (1) our children and families are protected, (2) victims are rescued and restored, (3) the standard of decency is raised and (4) our quality of life is improved. CCV is a faith-based 501(c) 3 nonprofit organization.
CCV actively fights sexual exploitation and the harmful effects of pornography on several fronts:
Public Awareness and Education: Inform the public of the availability and harm of exploitive and abusive pornography, particularly in the lives of children.
Protection against Media Pornography: Provide information to parents, educational leaders, librarians and business people on how to protect themselves, their children and their employees from published media and internet pornography. In fact, in 1999, CCV led a campaign resulting in the Memphis and Shelby County Public Library system installing internet software to filter pornographic web sites. CCV has also assisted nine other cities in their battle for filtration.
Legal: Support the enactment and enforcement, within the Constitution, of limitations on pornography. The U. S. Supreme Court has repeatedly ruled that child pornography and obscenity (defined as hard-core pornography which lacks significant literary, artistic, political or scientific value) are not protected by the First Amendment.
"A Way Out" Victim Assistance Program: This singularly unique Memphis program assists women who desire to permanently leave the sex for sale industry (topless clubs and prostitution) and works to restore them to a life of health and wholeness physically, mentally emotionally and spiritually. Through a number of very practical steps, we provide our clients and their children with...
- food, clothing, and shelter needs,
- Bible study and Biblically based twelve-step program,
- counseling and mentoring,
- health and dental care,
- change of residence,
- enrollment in drug and alcohol rehabilitation programs,
- educational and job training.
Every facet of the program addresses the practical and underlying needs of these women. The end result leads to a healthy lifestyle, strong parenting skills, stability, job readiness and the ability to become and remain a productive member of the workforce. Most importantly we introduce her to a loving Savior who has the capacity and desire to forgive offering a chance for a new life, a fresh start filled with hope and dignity.
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Current Prayer Requests: Pray for wisdom for George and Carol as they attend to their respective duties in the fight to raise the standard of decency in our city, making it a safer place for families to raise their children and in rescuing women who desire to leave the sex for sale industry by helping them find restoration and wholeness in Christ.
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Mission Organization: Palmer Home for Children
How to reach them:jahern@palmerhome.org , or
PO Box 929, Hernando, MS 38631 ( website)
Mission Statement: The mission of Palmer Home for Children is to present the hope of Christ to children
who, through lack of an adequate family structure, are in need of a permanent long-term Christ-centered home.
To that end, Palmer Home, as it has since 1895, remains committed to privately-funded,
non-governmental child care which keeps siblings together, models evangelical Christian values, mends
emotional scars, and restores for each child the full opportunity to reach his or her God-given potential.
Ministry news: May marked the dedication of the new Hernando Campus and all the promise it entails. The Board approved the new campus for one reason - to serve more needy children. There are many learning opportunities for the children this summer through summer camps and trips to service and ministry opportunities.
Current prayer request: Pray for the financial resources needed to provide for the increased number of children who are now coming to the facilities.
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