HOW WE ARE FOR OCALA

Partnering With Schools
Partnering With Schools

We partner with both Marion Oaks Elementary and Hammett Bowen Elementary School to support the teachers and staff!

In 2017, we partnered with Hammett Bowen by purchasing supplies needed for their Fall event, counseling students when needed, and by surprising the teachers with Christmas gifts they needed for the classrooms! We plan to do more in 2018 to be a blessing to the staff and students, including hosting fundraisers for the school!

At Marion Oaks Elementary, we became the 1st ever business partner with the school! This gives the school money to spend where it is most needed and allows for us to be able to help in other ways as well! We plan to partner with the administration to be a blessing for the teachers, and help their students achieve their best!

Supporting Local Charities
Supporting Local Charities

We financially support Helping Hands, Women's pregnancy Center, and Help Agency of the Forest.

Helping Hands helps provide housing for people who have nowhere to go but also assists in ensuring the people they house get access to job training and healthcare, as well as Bible studies, until they can get back on their feet!

Women's Pregnancy Center is an elite-quality center that offers FREE pregnancy tests and counseling to women who have become pregnant expectantly and are undecided on what route to take with their pregnancy. They have helped hundreds of women choose life and at the same time they help the new moms with parenting classes and supplies for their newborn!

Help Agency of the Forest meets physical and spiritual needs of families in the Ocala National Forest. Outside of offering food and services to those in extreme poverty, they organize and run a summer camp for kids and youth to help teach them about making wise choices in life.

Engaging Kids
Engaging Kids

We organize and host multiple FREE, kids events a year to help families do something fun together without worrying about cost!

Marion County falls under the average national household income rate and a part of what we do is to provide opportunities for families to come out and enjoy a day of safe, engaging fun without the burden of cost. Each event is designed to be unique and exciting to create memorable moments for these families. SW Marion County does not offer many opportunities for families to do things together so these events provide this for them.

Connecting Families to Life
Connecting Families to Life

We believe parents have the best opportunity to influence a child's life and that a church has the best opportunity to influence a parent's life! We exist to connect families to life and the best way of doing this is to connect them to the giver of life. The church is a catalyst in helping fix families and people that are broken so we ensure that we provide weekly experiences where people can encounter the truth of God for lives in a way that makes sense to them and is easy to apply. We believe anyone can belong and we try our best to make it easy for anyone to come to church regardless of sex, race, appearance, or church background.

Adopt-A-Teacher for Christmas 2018
Kids Glow Party 2018 @ Marion Oaks Elementary
Missions Trip 2018 to Hammett Bowen and Marion Oaks Elementary
Color Hunt 2018
Adopt-A-Teacher for Christmas
Kids Glow Party

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