Opportunities For Youth Groups

Hope Ministries welcomes IMPACT teens

Dozens of teens and their youth group sponsors will be volunteering at Hope Ministries on Saturday, January 3rd, as part of the Evangelical Free Church’s annual IMPACT youth conference in Des Moines. Will your youth group be in Des Moines that day? If so, click here to learn about how you can spend a few hours of your weekend making an impact on Central Iowa’s homeless and hungry.


THIS YOUTH GROUP PARTICIPATED ON A SERVICE & MISSION TEAM IN MAY 2007.  THEY WORKED FOR TWO HOURS AT OUR HOPE BARGAIN CENTER ON A SATURDAY, EAT AT HOPE CAFÉ, HEARD A PRESENTATION ON HOMELESSNESS, TOURED OUR BETHEL MISSION FACILITY AND DELIVERED FOOD AND ENCOURAGEMENT TO SEVERAL HOMELESS TENT CAMPS.  HER THEY ARE STANDING IN THE CENTER OF ONE OF THE CAMPS.


Ideal for Sunday School and Bible Study Groups, Boy and Girl Scouts

• Renovation/maintenance projects in our facilities (requires a 4-hour commitment to assist us with painting, cleaning, lawn work and general labor).

• Sponsor a donation drive (see the HOW YOU CAN HELP section).

- Have a Heart for the Homeless - February
- TOTSOCE - October
- Scan Away Hunger - December
- Sponsor a garage sale for the homeless
- Maintain a Hope Box in your home
- H.U.G.S.
- Together we CAN!
- Hope Totes
- Harvest of Hope Ministries
- Soup for Suits

• Schedule a Community Awareness Tours – See first hand how we feed, cloth, shelter and card for the homeless and hungry.  Visit all of the facilities at Hope Ministries:  Door of Faith,
Bethel Mission, Hope Thrift Store, and Hope Family Center. Reserve your place when you call (515) 265-7272 or send an e-mail to info@hopeiowa.org.

Become a part of HOPES HELPERS and receive our e-mail urgent needs list monthly.


The youth group from Asbury United Methodist Church in Webster City conducted a paper drive for Hope Family Center.  Their donation helps us to stretch our operating budget and enables us to direct dollars to other areas of need.  This group also volunteered for 3 hours at our Community Outreach Center located in the Hope Bargain Center.


Two youth groups combine on a SERVICE AND MISSION DAY delivering bags of food.


Zion Lutheran Church youth and adult sponsors volunteer at our Hope Bargain Center on a Wednesday night sorting donations.


Local youth group volunteering at our Hope Bargain Center and SERVICE AND MISSION DAY.