Hope Beyond Bridges

We believe our weekly outreach & feedings are not about enabling the homeless but rather allowing us to build relationships, establish trust, hear their stories and learn their names. There is incredible power in a name. They don’t care what WE know until they know we CARE. We want to eradicate homelessness in our city.

Our ministry model involves partnering with local churches who purchase the food and supplies, provide the commercial kitchen required for food preparation and the volunteers to go out and serve the food. Each week, we provide a hot nutritious meal, water or Dr. Pepper, hygiene kit, encouragement and prayer.
In addition to our weekly outreach, God has given us a vision and we are currently developing a plan to open a recover center specific for traumatized homeless individuals.
When doing our due diligence to avoid duplicating services, we discovered a significant need for the homeless population from outside the 610 loop to the suburbs. Currently we serve along the northwest corridor of Houston. One of our long-term goals is to launch outreach teams circumferentially around Houston. We are not aware of any other organizations who target the suburban areas we cover.

We have developed relationships over the last 11 years with local churches who share our vision and desire to eradicate homelessness in the greater Houston area through weekly outreach and relationship building. We have ministry trucks to support our weekly outreach.

The impact of Hope Beyond Bridges restoring HOPE to the homeless, again by God’s grace has been more than 70 individuals choosing to seek treatment for their addictions and ultimately finding a path off the streets once and for all.
As an organization, our biggest need currently is Blankets! We hand out more than 3500 blankets between October to March. Another need is advisory board members with expertise in marketing & social media, donor development, fundraising, or grant writing. We also want to develop more Ambassadors for Hope who will deliver the mission and vision of Hope Beyond Bridges to new churches in order to establish new routes, to businesses in order to form new partnerships for financial support, and to the community in order to change the stigmatism around homelessness.
We are a donor funded organization supported primarily by the churches, individuals & businesses. We are ECFA accredited and great stewards of our finances. Recently, we have discovered a potential sustainable revenue stream selling hygiene kits to other organizations. We anticipate our 2020 budget to be $300,000 and includes adding two new routes to our weekly outreach program, training and curriculum development and potentially completing phase one of the recovery center.