Our Local Outreach Partners
Bravely offers support to women with unplanned pregnancies. Programs include pre- and post-natal education, long-term support even after baby arrives, parenting classes for moms and dads and counseling to women and men suffering from the effects of a past abortion. They also provide services for pregnancy testing, ultrasounds, STD testing, a clothing closet, and much more. All services are free and confidential in a comfortable, homelike, supportive environment.
Using volunteer labor and donated funds and materials, Habitat provides family housing in safe and healthy neighborhoods. The Habitat ministry in Lafayette began in 1984, and over 300 houses have been completed. At Faith, we partner with many Christian churches and other agencies to help provide this service.
LUM promotes the interest and involvement within and between member churches to: 1) care for the emergency needs of low income people, 2) increase church involvement in social concerns, 3) improve resources within the low income community, and 4) address the root causes of poverty. With these goals in mind, LUM ministers to the needs of children and families through over 20 programs and services.
With the LEAP program, our doors at Faith Presbyterian Church are opened on the 4th Tuesday of every month from 10a to 12p to provide emergency funds to distressed families in Greater Lafayette, IN to assist with utilities. Those looking to utilize the LEAP program need to bring their ID and a copy of their utility bill. LEAP typically provides about $75 directly to the utility company.
Through the Gate is an intensive discipleship program tailored to help adult women struggling with addiction. Under the compassionate care of staff, former graduates, mentors, and volunteers, residents are immersed in the hope of the gospel of Jesus Christ. “We are not just a faith based treatment center, we are Christ-centered.” Their program focuses on redefining world-views, developing constructive thought patterns, and fostering an examined heart.
Tippecanoe United Food Pantry is a client-choice pantry offering a wide selection of quality fresh and packaged food goods. Their partnership with Food Finders allows them the opportunity to provide such a variety of foods to those in the community. Twice a year, groups of volunteers from Faith Presbyterian are organized to give out the food.
Trinity Life Ministry is a Christ-centered, non-profit ministry which provides life transformation programs for men focused on addictions. They restore men during a 21-week, faith-based life recovery program which includes housing, addictions education, life skills training, mentoring, spiritual transformation and family reconciliation counseling. To help support the program, they operate two thrift stores located in Lafayette and Crawfordsville, Indiana.
Our Global Outreach Partners
While not all are listed due to safety reasons, here are some of the global missions partners we support.
Greg and Faith Hurst have served for over twenty years in La Paz and rural Bolivia. They are committed to training people to become disciples who, in turn, make disciples of Christ. Their main ministry has focused on discipleship through youth ministry and church planting. They also helped to establish an English speaking, Christian international school, start two economic development projects, and have served in SIM mission leadership.
Jack and Mary Anne Voelkel have been missionaries in South America for many years. Recently retired, they continue their missionary work through counseling key leaders and members of Knox Presbyterian Church in Toronto, Canada, and loving on and witnessing to an elderly and needy neighbor and her granddaughter.
World Outreach, the global missions arm of the EPC, focuses on serving “The Hard Places” — regions like the Middle East and South Asia, areas where the Gospel of Jesus Christ is largely unheard. World Outreach seeks to serve the Church by empowering Spirit-filled witnesses to make disciples and plant reproducing churches among those with least access to the gospel.