local mission partners
ESA/Love, Inc.
Alan Doswald (Executive Director) 559-244-0105 fresnoloveinc@sbcglobal.net
Evangelicals for Social Action (ESA) mobilizes Christian churches to transform lives and neighborhoods in the name of Christ. Alan Doswald works closely with pastors and ministry leaders to mobilize their churches to serve.
Evangel Home
Gerre Brenneman (Executive Director) 559-264-4714 director@evangelhome.org
The Evangel Home is a Christian shelter for women and children in crisis. They provide food, shelter, clothing, counseling, Bible Studies, financial planning, and parenting classes in order to meet basic physical needs, promote personal development and responsibility, and encourage spiritual growth.
Every Neighborhood Partnership (ENP)
Artie Padilla (Director) 559-250-6860 artie@everyneighborhood.org
ENP was launched to meet the real time needs of the schools in the greater Fresno area, and the families that live in the neighborhoods surrounding these schools. ENP has a successful partnering process already in place and it is its goal to duplicate this process throughout the city.
Fresno/Madera Youth for Christ
Ed Kaczmarek (Executive Director) 559-237-4741 every@yfcfrontlines.org
Fresno/Madera Youth for Christ works on local Jr. and Sr. High School campuses, in juvenile institutions, with teen parents, and urban elementary school kids developing relationships and creating opportunities to share the good news of Jesus Christ.
Fresno Street Saints
Brian King (Director) 559-477-8935 brian.king74@yahoo.com
Fresno Street Saints is committed to restoring, equipping and empowering community leaders to address the issues related to concentrate poverty, crime and violence. Fresno Street Saints has developed and manages a network of influencers who directly compete with the gangs and their influence within Southwest Fresno.
Gap Ministries
Mike Wilhelm (Director) 559-222-6992 Gapmin2@aol.com
Gap Ministries exists to demonstrate the love of God to the elderly in our community by ministering to those in nursing homes in a variety of ways, as well as providing many services to those seniors still living in their homes.
Highway City Community Development (HCCD)
Jeff Harrington (Director) 559-978-1370 jeffreycraig.harrington@gmail.com
HCCD serves holistically to improve the economic, vocational, educational, and spiritual infrastructures of Highway City and the Central Unified School District.
Hope Now for Youth
Roger Feenstra (Executive Director & CEO) 559-434-8125 Director@hopenow.org
Hope Now For Youth is a local non-profit organization whose purpose is to bring youth out of gangs and into the American mainstream through loving and caring relationships and jobs.
InterVarsity's Fresno Institute for Urban Leadership (FIFUL)
Phil Skei 559-497-8739 philskei@fiful.org
Phil, through the ministry of FIFUL, trains students to invest their life in the ministry of reconciliation and Christian community development. FIFUL provides the students with Biblical training as well as the experience of being relocated into America's poorest and most violent communities where they live out their faith.
New Creation Ministries
Russell Willingham (Director) 559-227-1066 russellncm@yahoo.com
New Creation Ministries provides healing and spiritual formation to those with issues of sexual brokenness. They also teach and equip the church at large to do the same.
Pregnancy Care Center
Kristi Burkhart (Director) 559-446-6295 pccfresno@sbcglobal.net
The Pregnancy Care Center seeks to provide compassionate love and support by offering services, counseling, and alternatives to abortion for women and their unborn child.
Prison Fellowship Ministries
Joe Avila 559-224-8020 joe_avila@pfm.org www.pfm.org Prison Fellowship Ministries exhorts, equips and assists the church in its ministry to prisoners, ex-prisoners, victims and their families. They promote biblical standards of justice in the criminal justice system and sponsor the annual Angel Tree ministry for the children of inmates.
Valley Teen Ranch
Connie Clendenon, (CEO) 559-437-1144 connie.clendenan@valleyteenranch.org
Valley Teen Ranch is a special place for boys who have faced physical, emotional, or sexual abuse or are delinquent. In a family setting, the compassionate staff provides the security and stability these young men so desperately need.
World Impact
Luke Raughley (Director) 559-442-0867 lraughley@worldimpact.org
Luke is the city director of World Impact in Fresno, a group which helps to plant culturally relevant churches in urban Fresno. They work to evangelize, equip and empower members of low income communities using clubs, camps, ESL classes, sewing classes, and job training programs.
