Hope Ministries will be delivering free Christmas meals around the Des Moines area on Tuesday, Dec. 25! To reserve your meals, sign up online or call (515) 265-4277. The deadline to order is 4:30 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 17, at 4:30 p.m. A few things to note: ...
All our Thanksgiving and Christmas onsite and meal delivery driver team volunteer positions are now filled. WOW! We're truly grateful to the hundreds of people who have signed up to help. You can still sign up to be on a waiting list for Christmas volunteering...
We're going to serve and deliver 2,500 traditional ham dinners on Christmas...
Heather's drug use began when she was young. "I had a lot of childhood trauma, so it was just a coping mechanism," she says. "I didn't know how else to deal with things. Drugs became my 'go-to.'" As she grew older, Heather's addiction consumed her life...
After Bob was honorably discharged from the military, he returned to the States…only to find himself in what now seemed to be a foreign country. He and his wife, whom he met while overseas, struggled to adjust to their new surroundings and their marriage ended....
Nicole endured the pain of domestic violence for more than four years. When she was seriously injured by the man she thought she loved, she knew she had to leave him. Her life—and her children's future—depended on it. With nowhere else to go, she turned to...
Are you interested in volunteering regularly at Hope Ministries? Serving meals, teaching a class, working in our ENCORE Thrift Stores...
Eight months pregnant and completely alone, Melissa arrived at our doors with little hope for her future, feeling trapped in destructive cycles that had long controlled her life. “Despite being pregnant, I could not stop drinking,” she says. “Alcohol ruled my world.” Taking her first drink...