Grace Centers of Hope in Pontiac, Mich., WORLD’s Midwest Region finalist, is the winner of the 2015 Hope Awards for Effective Compassion. Grace received a plurality of the 8,000 votes WORLD readers cast, and will receive the check for $25,000 that a generous donor made possible.
Regional finalists Church Hill Activities & Tutoring of Richmond (East), Heartbeat of Miami (South), Hope House of Idaho (West), and Shivani Medes School (International) will receive $4,000 each. Regional runners-up will receive $1,000 each.
WORLD has covered a diversity of organizations during a decade of honoring nearly 100 Christian groups that fight poverty and exploitation.
Our readers nominate groups from their areas that offer challenging, personal, and spiritual help, and do not depend on government financing. Our staffers research them initially by internet and phone. Then our reporters eyeball and write about the most interesting.
All of these programs are replicable: Christians do not need any esoteric expertise to go and do likewise in their own neighborhoods. We hope you’ll get a sense of how God is using His people.
Case manager Kylleen Tremont (right) leads a program at Grace Centers of Hope (Photo by Glenn Triest)
Tiny, powerful heartbeats
Miami clinic gives thousands of poor and mostly minority women the resources to help them choose life for their unborn children
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Mr. Mitchell’s neighborhood
Parker Street Ministries works to help families become financially healthy and generous through dependence on God
by Marvin Olasky
Michigan’s homeless makeove
Detroit-area center helps transform homeless, addicted, and despondent men and women into workers and homeowners
by Daniel James Devine
‘A home to come to’
Hope House takes in children whom others have abandoned and shows them a loving, heavenly Father
by Sophia Lee
Life-changing work
Bud’s Warehouse is an inner-city thrift store where broken lives are imbued with dignity and worth
by Sophia Lee
Edifying CHAT
Richmond neighborhood group helps poor students thrive
by Emily Belz
Charts for churches
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In the shadow of ISIS
A classical Christian school does its work among the shattered families and displaced children in Iraqi Kurdistan
by Mindy Belz
