Urban Light Ministries, Inc.
Turning the hearts of fathers to their children and the children's hearts to the Heavenly Father.
Mission
Turning the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to the Heavenly Father, while endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
Ruling year
1996
President/CEO
Pastor Eli Williams
Main address
PO Box 3132
Springfield, OH 45501 USA
EIN
31-1451586
NTEE code
Christian (X20)
Civil Liberties Advocacy (R60)
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Communication
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
The need for fathers in the home and to train fathers on how to be effective providers, order keepers, stabilizers, and protectors in their child(rens) lives.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Fatherhood Programs
Urban Light Ministries currently provides resources and training for online and community-based programs that focus on developing tools to create a safe, loving, stable and nurturing family environment. POPS 101 and Father Love face-to-face discussion groups are facilitated by experienced, certified practitioners. Participants learn how to achieve cooperation and teamwork in family life, proven conflict resolution, and problem-solving strategies, effective family communication techniques to strengthen father-child and father-mother relationships, and positive discipline tools.
Online programs are offered for no charge through Urban Light Ministries website: www.ulmcourses.org. Current online courses include POPS101, english and spanish versions. The online version of Father Love is still under development. Fatherhood programs that have been offered in the past include POPS 101, On My Shoulders, Nurturing Fathers for Life (NFL), and Father Love.
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Our results
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Number of training programs created
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Population(s) Served
Adolescent parents, Single parents, Christians
Related Program
Fatherhood Programs
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Online programs provide for no charge to fathers. Now offered in both English and Spanish.
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Charting impact
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What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
To reach more fathers and children through the use of both online and in-person workshops and after school ministries to address the need of fatherless homes. The aim is to train fathers to become better protectors, order keepers, providers, and stabilizers in the home. It is also to reach more elementary school children and teach them about the support and encouragement they can receive from their Heavenly Father.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
Urban Lights Ministries strategies to achieve it cause of building stronger fathers and families are to:
1. Establish a Christian unity brand to build programs and communication vehicles to impact over 1 million fathers and community members for Christ.
2. Build programs and communication vehicles to impact over 1 million elementary students and children with the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
Urban Light Ministries has been providing the Sonshine Clubs after school program for over 25 years and is now taking it online leveraging the curricula and resources developed for this program. Also, Urban Light Ministries has focused its efforts over the last 14 years in creating and providing effective fatherhood programs and initiatives in the greater Miami Valley Ohio area.
Through the leadership of Pastor Eli Williams, Urban LIght Ministries is known as a leading authority on Fatherhood programs and children's ministries. Pastor Williams is the author of the book "Father Love" and continues to provide biblically-based resources focused on the critical needs of biological fathers in a child's life.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
Urban Light Ministries has served over 3600 Fathers and touched the lives of over 18,000 children. Our goal is to continue to reach more fathers and children through the use of online resources that will allow for expanding our ministry outside the local Ohio area.
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Urban Light Ministries, Inc.
Board of directorsas of 3/25/2021
Bruce Stapleton
Movementum Group
Term: 2018 - 2020
Mark Sturgeon
Kermit Rowe
Howard Evans
Daniel Blevins
Jay Weygandt
Darrell Grayson
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