Helping Hands

Web Site:

https://www.helpinghandsbelton.org/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/helpinghandsbelton

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MISSION STATEMENT

Helping Hands Ministry cultivates an environment in which individuals and families are empowered to work out of systemic poverty and toward wholeness, through ministries of relief, development, and advocacy.

HISTORY

Helping Hands Ministry was founded in 1995 by the Belton Ministers' Fellowship, an ecumenical gathering of local ministers, to serve the Belton community with a centralized food pantry. In the beginning, individuals from several local churches volunteered their time to serve 30 families in the basement of First United Methodist Church of Belton. The pantry later moved to First Christian Church in Belton, then eventually relocated to a house at 1009 West Avenue D. In November 2008, Helping Hands Ministry moved to its current location at 2210 Holland Road.

Today, Helping Hands Ministry continues to be supported by 30 local churches of many denominations. Each month, Helping Hands Ministry provides support to over 2,600 of our neighbors through the weekly commitment of more than 85 volunteers and staff.

THE WORK

Helping Hands focuses on three pillars to eliminate spiritual and physical poverty in East Bell County - relief, development, and advocacy. Their relief ministries seek to meet the basic, emergent needs of those in the area. Their development ministries focus on helping people work out of poverty with long-term solutions. Their advocacy ministry focuses on public policy issues that affect the neighbors they serve by contributing to the entrapment of low-income families in cycles of poverty.