Missions supported by Liberty Methodist Church
Local
The Rainbow Room
The Rainbow Room, located in Quitman, is an emergency resource for Wood County’s Child Protective Services (CPS) case workers. The Rainbow Room allows the case workers 24x7 access to children’s clothing, hygiene products, and other essentials that are needed until longer term foster care placement and state funding are in place. These items are all provided without cost to the children. Financial donations help support and maintain the facility and supplement any essential items that have not been donated.
Hiway 80 Mission
Highway 80 Missions is based in Longview, Texas. The non-profit religious organization is financed by donations and grants. The organization provides shelter, meals, and medical services to homeless individuals in the East Texas area from both Longview and Tyler facilities. H80M provides 187,000 meals per year at a current cost of $2.11 each. H80M provides shelter for women and children as well as men. These lodgings totaled 26,059 overnights in the month of May 2020. In that same period, H80M served 66,296 meals and expedited 261 medical appointments at clinics in Longview and Tyler.
International
Tanzania
Tanzania Moto (fire) is a mission to Tanzanian Methodist pastors and churches to help them in their mission and ministry to Tanzania. Tanzania Moto reaches people in the city and in the remote villages in the west. The mission includes training in ministry and evangelism; support for pastors includes a diverse range of needs including: housing, providing needed transportation, basic financial support and, recently because of the COVID 19 crisis, desperately needed food. Support for churches includes such things as repairing church buildings (we have provided roofs for a number of churches), purchase of land for church planting, providing churches with goats to establish a consistent food source, providing grants to start small businesses, purchase of land to grow crops (and eventually become a Christian school) and a host of other needs to bless the people. Our plans for the future are to purchase van that can visit remote villages and provide needed healthcare. To do that we are supporting the education of young men to be doctors and engineers.
Children’s HopeChest
Children’s HopeChest, founded in 1994, is a US-based Christian organization directly ministering to over 15,000 orphaned and vulnerable children, their impoverished homesteads and their surrounding communities through 130+ CarePoints in Ethiopia, Eswatini, Guatemala, Kenya, Moldova, Russia and Uganda. Seeking to avoid creating donor dependency, HopeChest employs a holistic asset-based development approach that empowers local leaders to bring lasting, positive transformation within the lives of the children and within the broader community. HopeChest believes in indigenous leadership and employs 425 overseas staff who deliver programming in the field and U.S. offices house 10 program staff and 10 admin staff for a highly efficient organization with deep impact.
HopeChest has developed programming around a Survive, Thrive and Succeed model which provides food, nutritional supplements, spiritual discipleship and programming, grief and trauma counseling, and a safe place to meet. HopeChest also helps supplement individual families ability to pay school fees, while parents and guardians of the children are offered training in Income Generating Activities and participation in Village Savings and Loans groups which helps them rise up out of poverty. Children, as they mature are offered a variety of vocational training opportunities and upon graduation are provided a small business start-up kit. HopeChest’s approx. $8.5M funding comes from U.S. church and business partners as well as individual donors who recognize the power of relationships in breaking the cycle of poverty and spreading the gospel of Christ around the globe as the organization seeks to fulfill its vision of “restoring hope to those who need it most.”
Christ For India
Christ For India was established in 1981 by an Independent church in Rockwall, Texas, purchasing 25 acres in Visakhapatnam, India. Dr. P.J Titus and family had moved from India to Rockwall in 1972 and joined the church. Dr. Titus was a preacher and businessman and he always had a heart for spreading the Gospel in India. He believed the best evangelism to India was to bring young men in for biblical training and a degree. Once they were trained, they could go back home and start a Christian fellowship then a Church. In 1981 Dr. Titus and his wife Mary returned to India to establish the mission. Dr. Titus started a theological seminary and Mary became concerned about the lost and orphaned children in the area. She began teaching children under a large tree and took some of the children home with her. The children needed a home, shelter food etc. so eventually housing was built for them. Dr. Titus and Mary have gone on to be with the Lord and today their 2 sons and family are involved in the ministry.
Jameson Titus is based in Rockwall and has been to our church several times. Jameson spends part of each year in India. Jonathan Titus and family live on the campus in India and are responsible for day to day operation of the campus. The Mission statement of Christ For India is….. to train nationals as pastors and evangelist, establishing native churches, providing humanitarian aid and education for India’s future leadership. The college has graduated over 2,000 pastors since inception. They also provide the New Life Public school for children with over 900 students and New Life Children Home for about 400 children that live on campus full time. They serve almost 3,000 meals daily. They also have a small hospital on campus and use a van as a mobile clinic for cities nearby. CFI is an independent Christian organization supported by individuals and churches.
The Rainbow Room
The Rainbow Room, located in Quitman, is an emergency resource for Wood County’s Child Protective Services (CPS) case workers. The Rainbow Room allows the case workers 24x7 access to children’s clothing, hygiene products, and other essentials that are needed until longer term foster care placement and state funding are in place. These items are all provided without cost to the children. Financial donations help support and maintain the facility and supplement any essential items that have not been donated.
Hiway 80 Mission
Highway 80 Missions is based in Longview, Texas. The non-profit religious organization is financed by donations and grants. The organization provides shelter, meals, and medical services to homeless individuals in the East Texas area from both Longview and Tyler facilities. H80M provides 187,000 meals per year at a current cost of $2.11 each. H80M provides shelter for women and children as well as men. These lodgings totaled 26,059 overnights in the month of May 2020. In that same period, H80M served 66,296 meals and expedited 261 medical appointments at clinics in Longview and Tyler.
International
Tanzania
Tanzania Moto (fire) is a mission to Tanzanian Methodist pastors and churches to help them in their mission and ministry to Tanzania. Tanzania Moto reaches people in the city and in the remote villages in the west. The mission includes training in ministry and evangelism; support for pastors includes a diverse range of needs including: housing, providing needed transportation, basic financial support and, recently because of the COVID 19 crisis, desperately needed food. Support for churches includes such things as repairing church buildings (we have provided roofs for a number of churches), purchase of land for church planting, providing churches with goats to establish a consistent food source, providing grants to start small businesses, purchase of land to grow crops (and eventually become a Christian school) and a host of other needs to bless the people. Our plans for the future are to purchase van that can visit remote villages and provide needed healthcare. To do that we are supporting the education of young men to be doctors and engineers.
Children’s HopeChest
Children’s HopeChest, founded in 1994, is a US-based Christian organization directly ministering to over 15,000 orphaned and vulnerable children, their impoverished homesteads and their surrounding communities through 130+ CarePoints in Ethiopia, Eswatini, Guatemala, Kenya, Moldova, Russia and Uganda. Seeking to avoid creating donor dependency, HopeChest employs a holistic asset-based development approach that empowers local leaders to bring lasting, positive transformation within the lives of the children and within the broader community. HopeChest believes in indigenous leadership and employs 425 overseas staff who deliver programming in the field and U.S. offices house 10 program staff and 10 admin staff for a highly efficient organization with deep impact.
HopeChest has developed programming around a Survive, Thrive and Succeed model which provides food, nutritional supplements, spiritual discipleship and programming, grief and trauma counseling, and a safe place to meet. HopeChest also helps supplement individual families ability to pay school fees, while parents and guardians of the children are offered training in Income Generating Activities and participation in Village Savings and Loans groups which helps them rise up out of poverty. Children, as they mature are offered a variety of vocational training opportunities and upon graduation are provided a small business start-up kit. HopeChest’s approx. $8.5M funding comes from U.S. church and business partners as well as individual donors who recognize the power of relationships in breaking the cycle of poverty and spreading the gospel of Christ around the globe as the organization seeks to fulfill its vision of “restoring hope to those who need it most.”
Christ For India
Christ For India was established in 1981 by an Independent church in Rockwall, Texas, purchasing 25 acres in Visakhapatnam, India. Dr. P.J Titus and family had moved from India to Rockwall in 1972 and joined the church. Dr. Titus was a preacher and businessman and he always had a heart for spreading the Gospel in India. He believed the best evangelism to India was to bring young men in for biblical training and a degree. Once they were trained, they could go back home and start a Christian fellowship then a Church. In 1981 Dr. Titus and his wife Mary returned to India to establish the mission. Dr. Titus started a theological seminary and Mary became concerned about the lost and orphaned children in the area. She began teaching children under a large tree and took some of the children home with her. The children needed a home, shelter food etc. so eventually housing was built for them. Dr. Titus and Mary have gone on to be with the Lord and today their 2 sons and family are involved in the ministry.
Jameson Titus is based in Rockwall and has been to our church several times. Jameson spends part of each year in India. Jonathan Titus and family live on the campus in India and are responsible for day to day operation of the campus. The Mission statement of Christ For India is….. to train nationals as pastors and evangelist, establishing native churches, providing humanitarian aid and education for India’s future leadership. The college has graduated over 2,000 pastors since inception. They also provide the New Life Public school for children with over 900 students and New Life Children Home for about 400 children that live on campus full time. They serve almost 3,000 meals daily. They also have a small hospital on campus and use a van as a mobile clinic for cities nearby. CFI is an independent Christian organization supported by individuals and churches.