Abide Ministries, Inc.
Strengthening families in loving kindness and friendship
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Strengthening families.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Abide
“Abide Ministries, Inc. exists to strengthen families. This is accomplished in part by helping people become trusting and intentional about what God is doing in and through their lives. Abide offers a collective of pioneering branches that serve a variety of people groups. These branches are contracted to meet specific needs of all living things - people, creatures, plants, and the environment; allowing great needs to be met through qualified leaders in specific ministry vocations. As the need and opportunity for innovative ways to strengthen families arise, Abide develops and launches new programs, branch ministries, and non-profits, then provides coaching and financial & organizational structure assistance to enable them to meet the needs of families efficiently and effectively. Additionally, Abide grants funds to like minded nonprofits to further our mission to strengthen families.”
Anti-Human Trafficking
PATRON:
Reduces sex trafficking regionally and nationally by introducing the “The Epik Project” trafficking customer interdiction and disruption program. Out of this project, a trafficking survivor mentorship program was launched.
70X7:
Long term mentorship and restoration efforts for trafficking survivors as they move out of at-risk behaviors/lifestyles
Poverty Alleviation
myCOVIDresponse.org:
Connects volunteers and resources with people in need while minimizing covid exposure. Families are linked to specific volunteers, thus forming transformative relationships.
ON YOUR FEET DETROIT:
Connects volunteers with the hidden plight of people without proper shelter by providing backpacks filled with COVID and warming supplies.
HAITI CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY USA:
Meets the needs of orphaned and impoverished children in Haiti.
CAPTAIN:
Offers free, unbiased, and helpful financial advice and education to families and individuals who have limited access to this kind of assistance.
Racial Reconciliation
RECONCILE:
Communicates the love of God and His message of reconciliation to individuals and communities by helping people listen, learn, and grow from experiences where they are able to meet in friendship with people who look different from each other.
RESTORING:
Pursues social and racial justice by operating multicultural workshops and producing thought-provoking works of literary, performance, and visual art.
KALEO ARTS:
Kaleo uses performing arts workshops to intentionally bring children from the suburbs and the inner city together to promote friendship and understanding of different cultures from a young age.
Counseling
SANCTUARY:
Provides therapy and crisis response services to those suffering the direct effects of trauma who otherwise may not have access to this kind of help because of financial difficulty.
DOOR OF HOPE:
Is committed to unlocking the potential of oppressed women and children around the world through culturally relevant and sustainable efforts.
MOTION:
Helps widows find emotional healing, joy, fulfillment, and purpose.
The Arts and Art Education
KALEO ARTS:
Helps children discover their abilities and confidence through performing arts education. Culturally appropriate messages of affirmation are shared with youth as they participate in songwriting, dance, drama, song workshops, and performances.
RESTORING:
Operates “The Red”, a children’s art museum, and the “Live Coal” mobile children’s art workshop and gallery in one of Detroit’s most disadvantaged neighborhoods, seeking to bring vitality and restoration to the underserved areas of Detroit. Live Coal also operates a collective of local artists and has won awards as a powerful performance and visual artist.
RECONCILE:
Impacts culture and racial justice through the powerful application of performance art and the visual arts. Reconcile has been recognized by major institutions in Detroit.
Discipleship
99:1 MINISTRIES:
Exists to ensure that all are moved by God's love to live out the journey God has for them through one on one mentoring and small group settings.
CULTIVATE:
Develops Christlike character and leadership skills in university students so they can grow God's kingdom.
CONNECT THE NATIONS:
Exists to see people from all nations connected to Christ by bringing together international college students with friends from the states.
BEHOLDERS:
Works to train people for missions and create opportunities for them to share their faith.
CHAMPION:
A group of local chaplains who spiritually mentor professional and amateur athletes.
RESTORING:
Does community workshops, community development, social work, and ministry in Detroit’s most disadvantaged neighborhoods as it seeks to bring vitality to the neighborhoods, marriages, and families of Detroit.
MOTION:
Helps widows find emotional healing, joy, fulfillment, and purpose as they walk into their future with Jesus.
PEARL:
Helps connect young Asian Americans with relatable, spiritually mature, and compassionate mentors to see them flourish in Christ.
Where we work
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Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Number of new programs/program sites
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Widows and widowers, Parents, People of African descent, People of Asian descent, Age groups
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Context Notes
Abide seeks to add branches or programs that support our goal of strengthening families, restoring|reconciling people, and creation as new appropriate opportunities become available
Our Sustainable Development Goals
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Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
Family counseling and discipleship. Restoring sex trafficking victims to wholeness. Disrupt sex trafficking. Restoring abuse survivors. Restoring families. Providing art opportunities to at-risk children. Trauma counseling for children and grief support for widows. Racial reconciliation workshops. Develop courageous and innovative workers and organizations. Community and University discipleship.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
Create a collective of leaders who are willing to sacrifice all to develop and manage courageous programs (branches). Abide develops leaders. When appropriate Abide helps branch managers start their 501(3)c non-profit.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
Branch or program managers raise personal support. Senior leaders work to develop branch managers. As programs mature, Abide seeks support from foundations and corporations, Abide has 25 years of experience. Senior staff has experience ranging from running a web consulting business to the award-winning executive leadership of non-profits.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
We have restored trafficking victims for over 10 years. Our Sex trafficking disruption branch manager is recognized as an expert regionally and nationally. Our racial reconciliation program has gained regional recognition. Our children's art program is expanding nationally. We have successfully discipled addicts and students from a variety of cultures. Our counseling and art programs continue to provide support to children and adults who would not otherwise have access to services. Our next step is to grow our financial support so our workers can work full time.
How we listen
Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.
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Who are the people you serve with your mission?
Abide serve a collective of courageous leaders that operate independent programs to strengthen families by working to disrupt sex trafficking, restore survivors of sex trafficking and spouse abuse, coordinate the community response to COVID through myCOVIDresponse.org. promote racial reconciliation, art and crisis counseling for underserved children, support for widows, and mentoring / discipleship programs for teens, students, and adults. The leaders we serve also collect information from the people they serve.
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How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?
To identify and remedy poor client service experiences, To identify bright spots and enhance positive service experiences, To make fundamental changes to our programs and/or operations, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve, To understand people's needs and how we can help them achieve their goals
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What significant change resulted from feedback?
We recently updated our subcontractor (Courageous Leader) orientation process.
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Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?
We collect feedback from the people we serve at least annually, We take steps to get feedback from marginalized or under-represented people, We take steps to ensure people feel comfortable being honest with us, We engage the people who provide feedback in looking for ways we can improve in response, We act on the feedback we receive, We tell the people who gave us feedback how we acted on their feedback
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What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?
It is difficult to get the people we serve to respond to requests for feedback
Financials
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Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
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Abide Ministries, Inc.
Board of directorsas of 01/24/2023
Mike Carnill
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Hebert Cabral
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Jo Anna Cabral
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Lesley Koehn
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Brian Koehn
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Mike Carnill
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Robyn Carnill
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Chris Cook
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Jocelyn Cook
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Board leadership practices
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Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes
Organizational demographics
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Leadership
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