Local Opportunities
Wellspring Living
Purpose: Atlanta is among the top three cities in the United States for child prostitution. One in four women is sexually molested by age 18. Wellspring Living creates restorative environments for these victims of childhood trauma to help them step out of their pain and begin to rebuild their lives. Wellspring for Women offers a safe place where motivated women (average ages 20 – 35) can receive hope and healing from childhood sexual abuse and other destructive behaviors. Wellspring provides a residential program for women, consisting of six months in an intensive, therapeutic environment followed by six months of supported transition.
Wellspring for Girls, in partnership with other child service organizations, cares for girls (ages 12 – 17) who have been devastated by forced prostitution. Wellspring Living offers a therapeutic and educational day program for abuse survivors.
Our Emphasis: raise awareness and provide assistance to further Wellspring Living's mission.
Learn More: Visit Wellspring Living's Web site. or contact them at 770-631-8888.
FaithBridge Foster Care
Purpose: There are more than 800,000 foster children nationwide. Nearly 13,000 in Georgia. And only 25–30 percent of the necessary families to serve them. The number of foster children needing care, and the lack of available foster families, at first seems overwhelming. However, if you believe, like we do, that the local church has a biblical mandate to care for widows and orphans, then this problem is not as unsolvable as it initially appears. FaithBridge Foster Care has a strategy and a model to mobilize, organize, equip and release local churches and local communities to solve our country’s foster care crisis. Together, we stand in the gap for foster children and foster families.
Our Emphasis: raise awareness and provide assistance to further FaithBridge's mission.
Learn More: Visit FaithBridge's Web site or fill out our online interest form below. Please note, submitting the form below does not commit you to anything. One of our staff will follow up with you about your specific interest(s).
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The Giving Table Project
Purpose: support the food pantries of North Fulton Community Charities, The Place of Forsyth County and MUST Ministries of Cherokee County in order to feed families suffering from food insecurity.
Our Emphasis: feed families suffering from food insecurity. Stonecreek will supply grocery bags pre-printed with a shopping list on the bag. Each filled "The Giving Table" grocery bag will feed a family of four suffering from food insecurity for three days. Download a "Giving Table" Shopping List and help today.
Learn More: Contact Stonecreek's Main Office (770-754-7900, ) or click a link below to learn more about our local partners:
North Fulton Community Charities
Facts About Food Insecurity in the U.S.*
- 35 million Americans - including 12.6 million children - are food insecure.
- Food banks and food-rescue organizations provide emergency hunger relief to 9% of all Americans - about 25 million persons.
- More than 1 of every 5 households that uses a food pantry does so "almost every month.
*Source: http://www.strength.org/childhood_hunger/hunger_facts
Habitat For Humanity
Purpose: work with God and people everywhere, from all walks of life, to build simple, decent homes for those in need.
Our Emphasis & Opportunity: provide volunteers and other project support for Habitat of North Central Georgia's Centennial Village, located 1 mile south of Stonecreek on Highway 9.
Playpark Build Coming This Fall
In November, Stonecreek Church will help Habitat transform their materials staging in the middle of Centennial Village into a playpark. Stonecreek's desire is to extend life in Jesus to the various families in Centennial Village by providing a place to gather and develop a sense of community. We will partner with Emmett's Play, for the installation of outdoor play equipment.
Learn More & Volunteer: Contact Ryan Martin, Stonecreek's director of operations (770-754-7900 x113, ) or visit Habitat's Web site.
