Local Profile Highlights 10 Faith-Based Nonprofits Serving North Texas

Faith-based nonprofits in North Texas and beyond support people through hardship while also encouraging them to bring their faith into daily life. Ten such organizations are highlighted here for the range of needs they address, from housing and senior care to foster youth, global relief, and fertility support.

Agape Resource and Assistance Center provides housing and transitional services to women and mothers with children who are facing situational homelessness in Collin County, where, according to the report, some families have stayed on friends’ couches after an eviction, lived in their cars, or stayed in extended-stay hotels. Families in the program have access to housing, after-hours childcare and development, workforce preparation, and reliable transportation. Agape uses restored houses and repurposed office spaces to provide homes, and supporters can volunteer or donate.

Buddhist Tzu Chi, which describes its mission as relieving suffering and creating a better world through compassion, love, and hope, works through “The Four Great Missions.” The organization reports assisting more than 124 countries with charity, medical care, education, and humanities, and it is also involved in international disaster relief, bone marrow donation, community volunteering, and environmental protection. Its scholarship program supports high school and undergraduate students who are making a difference in their communities and want to pursue higher education.

DaySpring Senior Living has provided Christ-centered, nonprofit assisted living and memory care since 1998. The organization says its faith-driven staff seeks to honor the personal dignity and trust of residents. Its services include assisted living, memory care plans tailored to individual residents, and a respite care program that encourages residents to be independent. Donations are invited to support its work with seniors.

Direction 61:3 is a faith-based organization that walks alongside older foster youth as they leave the foster care system, offering a network of support during the transition. The stated goal is for young adults to become as independent as possible while still receiving the care they need to succeed. The organization invites donations and volunteers.

Engage Hope Ministries describes itself as a Christian ministry that shares the gospel and makes disciples of Jesus Christ. Through a partnership with 10 ministries in Uganda and Mexico, it provides Christian education, clean water, food, and other support to impoverished children and families. Livada, a ministry that partners with DFW-area churches, businesses, foundations, and individuals, focuses on vulnerable children in Transylvania, Romania. Its work includes mission trips and North Texas service projects such as “Family Pack” and “Run For Orphans,” as well as scholarships for Romanian orphans who want to study in the United States and return to Romania to help others.

Moms in the Making is a faith-based, Christian fertility support group that shares “the hope and truth of God’s Word” with women on their journey to motherhood. The group says it supports women facing pregnancy loss, second infertility, foster care or adoption, medical treatment, or a more natural route. It reports 55 in-person support groups across the United States, Canada, Germany, and the Netherlands, along with 12 virtual groups, a Spanish-language group, and three Moms Made groups.

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