Warehouse Ministry
First a closet, then a garage, then a warehouse, then a Community Resource Center — the warehouse ministry of Here’s Life Inner City has grown and developed to meet the needs of our partner churches. It began many years ago in New York when a company wanted to donate warm blankets — in the middle of summer! We knew that ministries that reach out to the homeless would need those blankets in the winter, but where to keep them until then?
From those humble beginnings, the warehouse ministry has gone far beyond a simple place for storage. Through the years, not only in New York but also in Los Angeles, Chicago and Bakersfield, our teams have used space in a variety of ways. Boxes of Love and Easter Bags are packed there, and thousands of pounds of canned goods and other food are gathered to be redistributed weekly to partner ministries. Christian materials are made available for outreach, and local pastors and volunteers have opportunities to interact with one another.
The resources provide crucial points of contact between the churches and the poor, demonstrating God’s care and opening the door to the Gospel.
Here’s Life is celebrating the newest addition to the warehouse ministry with the opening of the 7,000 sq. ft. Community Resource Center in Minneapolis/St. Paul on Oct. 27. This new facility expands the opportunity to meet real physical and spiritual needs of destitute families. We anticipate the impact to touch 25,000 needy people every year through our partnerships with more than 100 churches in the Twin Cities.
The Community Resource Center is equipped with a spacious warehouse section for compassionate product distribution, a training room to equip pastors and ministry leaders in youth and career development, and great computer workstations permitting inner-city pastors to access helpful resources on the web, a tool they often lack in their ministry environment. Please pray for this exciting expansion, that it might allow Here’s Life Inner City Twin Cities to more effectively live out God’s heart for the poor.
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