Downtown Center: 444-1115
Northwest Center: 543-7200
www.agapeprolife.org

The Agape Pregnancy Help Center offers women a nurturing place where they can determine whether they are pregnant and, if they are, calmly consider all their options. They offer women comfort, counseling and assistance with a Christian perspective.

Contact: Charles Kemble
Phone: 827-7739

The Christian Life Team encourages involvement in ministries touching and impacting lives of individuals. Through awareness and information sharing Christians are encouraged to measure live the Christian life as followers of Jesus.

Phone: 226-3413

Christian Women's Job Corps (CWJC) is a ministry to teach women employment and life skills in a Christian context. In addition to professional skills and development, students are assigned a mentor who guides and encourages personal development. Since 1996 more than 220 women have graduated from this program.

Disaster Preparedness
Coordinator: James Carey
Phone: 674-5180

Disasters happen! Unplanned and unscheduled! When disasters do happen, a core of people is needed to assist during this traumatic time. Before the need is present, committed, caring workers can be trained to anticipate needs. Contact SABA staff or coordinator for specific helps and seminars to train your church leaders to be prepared.

Coordinators: Steve Payne & Tony Hernandez
Phone: 378-4616

Disaster Relief ministries meet urgent needs of hurting humanity with loving care and timely response. Volunteers provide manpower, ministry, financial help during floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, fires, earthquakes, and urban disasters. On site efforts are correlated with American Red Cross and National Volunteers Active in Disasters (NOVA). Ministry is done through feeding, childcare and mud-out units.

Phone: 525-9954

Health Ministries assists churches to host health fairs and nutrition education. In addition, each summer this team works with student missionaries to include CHEK UP (Christian Health Education for Kids: United for Prevention) as part of the summer program. If your church is planning a Health Fair, suggestions and planning helps are available. Contact SABA for a copy.

Trainer: Camille Simmons
Phone: 525-9954

Many churches in the Alamo City minister through a food closet and clothing ministry. If your church is not currently ministering in this way, check with churches in your area to discover where you may contribute canned foods and used clothing.

Directors: Robert & Carol Davis
Phone: 532-1699

his ministry reaches the inner city street community by providing worship services and Bible study. Contributions and donations are on-going needs./p>

(Adult Nonreaders, Tutoring, ESL)
Coordinator: Dora Parnell
Phone: 659-1420

Literacy Missions Ministry includes English as a Second Language (ESL), Adult Reading and Writing (ARW), Children and Youth Tutoring (CYT) and Family Literacy. Sixteen hour workshops in each area prepare volunteers to be effective teachers. Contact SABA if no event is currently listed.

Coordinator: Jay Finney
Phone: 520-5862

Ministry Partners include individuals and groups living in or coming to San Antonio to do ministry. Mr. Finney assists groups by assigning projects, assisting with housing needs and
coordinating projects.

Contact: Camille Simmons
Phone: 525-9954

Missions Service Corps (MSC) is a task force of volunteers who give full-time service (averaging 20 hours a week) for four months or more. MSC volunteers provide their own financial support. They serve through a variety of ministries. MSC volunteers are screened by Southern Baptist churches, North America Mission Board and other Southern Baptist organizations. Upon approval, a local supervisor is assigned.

Contact local Homes for specific needs.

Nursing home ministries include any opportunity to reach out to residents, their families and/or staff of a nursing or retirement center. This may happen through planned activities, caring support, and/or relationship building. To make a difference in the lives of many people, check the yellow pages for nursing homes near you. Call to discover their unmet needs.

Director of Operations & S. TX Facilitator: Reby Lawler
Phone: 731-9922

This church-based outreach ministry links mentors and new mothers to meet practical needs with a spiritual purpose. Through monthly visits to homes of families with babies, mentors help mothers develop parenting skills. ONE BY ONE provides materials including Mentor Manual, Prayer Partner Guide and The Parent's Pack. By mentoring these young couples the door for presenting the gospel opens through relationship evangelism.

Executive Director:
210-262-1614

PIFA provides classes for parents of infants ages birth through three years of age. Staff and volunteers guide parents to understand and grow in their new role.

Contact: Rob Rolison
Phone: 679-9229

Past the Edge Ministries exists to partner with churches for a missions experience that goes beyond borders. The main focus is the interior of Mexico. Past the Edge can also arrange and coordinate missions trips all over the world. PTE coordinates contacts with ministry site and leaders, provides training for the team and works to provide cost effective and appropriate missions trips.

Contact: Roger Box
Phone: 614-3383

Restorative Justice Ministries reach out to offenders, their families, crime victims and criminal justice professionals. Approximately 600,000 adult offenders are expected to be released back into society this year.

Billy & Jacqueline Thornton
830-537-4333

Grace House reaches out to women to offer a safe place upon release to rebuild their lives, mend broken hearts and to build mighty women of God for use in His Kingdom. This house provides 24-hour supervised living, individual counseling, job readiness training, parenting classes, anger management and spiritual training.

Mike Gahan
210-227-5600 ext. 142

Consider ministering to incarcerated youth by leading Bible studies, serving as a mentor, and/or join a team to provide a Christmas party or other special event.

Roger Box
210-614-3383

This ministry is designed to facilitate the offenders re-entry into the community. Volunteers from First Churches Huntsville and Gatesville interview offenders at the time of release. If desires, their information is forwarded to volunteers in the community to which they will return. Volunteers are enlisted to communicate with these released offenders to provide support and encouragement.

Worship Service Under Commerce Bridge & Medina, Second Saturday of Month
Macedonia Homeless Ministry & Seeking the Lost Ministries
For more information call 661-7004 or 639-1543

Volunteers from Macedonia Church and Seeking the Lost Ministries proclaim the gospel and feed and cloth the homeless. Call one of the above listed numbers for more details.

Contact: Camille Simmons
Phone: 525-9954

Summer Missionaries are assigned to San Antonio to minister in low income areas during a 6-8 week period. These students lead Day Camp and Backyard Bible Clubs reaching several hundred inner city children and their families.

Director: Dexton Shores
Phone: 293-0488

Volunteers work along the Texas/Mexico border teaching Bible study, leading Bible clubs for children, holding medical clinics and/or doing construction projects.

Chaplain: Dennis DeGlopper
Phone 382-5073

Truckstop chaplains reach out to truckers passing through the San Antonio area. A new chapel at Petro/SA, IH 10 at exit 582 offers Bible study, worship, counseling and encouragement.