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Our Mission
Prevent homelessness.
Promote self-sufficiency
and dignity.
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Rosedale UMC Youth Group
Conducts Food Drive for HOPE
Many thanks to our new friends at Rosedale UMC,
who helped stock the shelves just in time for the holidays!
Photo: 10/30/2010
Country Day School 3rd Grade Class
Volunteers in Client Choice Food Pantry
Each year around this time, the 3rd graders from Country Day School
visit HOPE Ministries to volunteer their time in the food pantry. After
their work shift, the class sat down with HOPE Director of Operations
and Social Enterprise to process their experience and learn more
about the struggles of families living in poverty.
Photo: 10/17/2010
University UMC 4th & 5th Graders
Volunteer in the Client Choice Food Pantry
It's always fun when elementary school children come and get a taste of
volunteerism by stocking the shelves in HOPE's food pantry.
Thanks to these UUMC youngsters for volunteering despite the heat!
Photo: 7/29/2010
St. John's UMC Youth Group
Volunteers in the Food Pantry
Many thanks to the youth from St. John's UMC,
one of our supporting congregations.
Photo: August 2010
Power of HOPE speaker and author      
             Liz Murray captivates audience
Nearly 500 people packed the Marriott Grand Ballroom
to hear LIZ MURRAY's inspirational story and support HOPE
Liz Murray riveted the all-ages audience on Thursday, Sept.
16, at the Power of HOPE, a fundraiser to benefit HOPE
Ministries. Liz's commanding stage presence had the
audience hanging on her every word. She shared her story
of growing up on the streets of New York City with great
candor and even more humor. Liz connected her story of
childhood poverty and hunger to the all-too-similar daily
struggles of HOPE's clients. Liz viscerally reminded the
audience that organizations like HOPE need financial
support to help those at-risk for homelessness become
self-sufficient. To all who made this event possible, all who
attended, and all who made contributions - THANK YOU!!
Many thanks to all our event
volunteers. We couldn't have
done it without you! Above:
Gwen Bethly, left, of Hope
Community United Methodist
Church, and Dot Harman, of
First United Methodist Church
of Baton Rouge.
HOPE Board president Don Morgan, left, chats with
former HOPE client Valerie Clark, featured in the new
HOPE video that premiered at Power of HOPE.
Photo by Stephen Lindsay, Lindsay Project Photography.
Liz Murray
Photo by Stephen Lindsay
Getting Ahead in a
Just-Gettin'-By World
©
Graduation #12
On Thursday, October 7, five students graduated
from
Getting Ahead in a Just-Gettin'-By World ©.
This workshop series helps students learn about
the underlying causes of poverty, increase their
financial literacy and develop their own personal
action plan for increasing their self-sufficiency.

You could be in our next
Getting Ahead workshop!
Above: One of the Getting Ahead graduates
presents her Action Plan to the class while
co-facilitator Dick Stonich looks on.
Right: Congratulations to the graduates,
who are surrounded by Stonich (far left),
co-facilitator Denise Porter (second from right) and
HOPE Manager of Programs Jeffrey Fairley (far right).
FUMC-BR volunteers clean out
HOPE's storage pod during
FaithWorks 2010
A group of FUMC-BR volunteers worked really hard
on Saturday, October 30, to clean out an old storage
pod. It was a morning of heavy lifting and
camaraderie, and we never would have gotten rid of
that POD without them.
Thank you to team leader Pam Fairly
and the whole group!
Right: HOPE Board member Rob Fairly,
Lou Day and John O'Brien

Far right: Libby Halphin, Fairly,
and Linda Rewerts
Thanksgiving Food Distribution
November 22, 2010
Our Client Choice Food Pantry served over 150
families on Monday, November 22. One hundred
registered ahead of time for a "Thanksgiving box"
and the rest shopped in the CCFP (turkey included!).
Event Photos
Many thanks to all the donors and volunteers
who made this special day possible!
Above: There was such a crowd that we had to put
an intake station out on the sidewalk!
Far left: Volunteers from the Blackwater UMC youth
group help clients get their turkeys straight off the
trailer they were delivered on.

Left: More volunteers, including youth from Hope
Community UMC, helped clients select their holiday
meal ingredients inside the HOPE Family Center.