We're getting ready to serve and deliver thousands of meals on Christmas. Plus, we provide hundreds of free meals every day. You can help provide holiday meals by donating much-needed food items! Specifically, our biggest need this Christmas season is donations of meat, including: Ground beef,...
On Christmas Day, Hope Ministries will deliver free dinners to people across Des Moines—and you can reserve yours now! Just use the form below to sign up OR call (515) 265-4277, Monday through Friday, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The deadline to reserve meals is...
Kelsey was only a teenager when her family got the tragic news that would change their lives forever: Her father had terminal lung cancer. It had already spread to his brain, and he was given a prognosis of six months. He lived for another six months...
We're so thankful to the 100+ people who have signed up to volunteer at our 2023 Thanksgiving Meal Outreach! Those spots are now filled, BUT you can still help out this holiday season as we'll need a whole new round of volunteers for our Christmas...
There’s an old painting most likely familiar to anyone who’s spent time in church. It was painted by artist Warner Sallman and depicts Jesus standing at a door and knocking. “The thing about that painting,” says Steve, a recent graduate of our life recovery program, “is...
It was a 150-year-old book—The New Life by Andrew Murray—that initially inspired David to change his life. And he found it, of all places, in a dumpster behind a thrift store. He’d been looking for clothing. First, he read the preface. Later, he read the whole...
We recently completed a five-year survey, including more than 1,000 homeless men we've served, that illuminates the link between adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and homelessness in adulthood. We've released the results of our survey in a report called Trauma: Then and Now. We conducted our survey...
There was a point in Cindy’s life where it seemed she had everything. A marriage, a new house, a convertible, a camper, even a motorcycle. From the outside, her life looked nearly perfect . . . Until a relapse into drug addiction stole everything. “Because of...
Tiffany had struggled for years. From abusive relationships to living in her car to eventually trying to survive in a tent in the woods—a situation that turned dangerous when her tent was vandalized. “I was lost. Running from my pain and trauma just led me to...
In the summer of 2021, Shay faced a life-changing crossroads. “Basically,” he remembers, “I was going to die, or I was going to get help.” No stranger to grief, he’d used drugs and alcohol to numb the pain of one heart-wrenching loss after another. As a...