Local Ministries

Community Garden Outreach
The Hunsinger Lane Community Garden was established in the Spring of 2017. The vision was to provide a garden area where members of HLBC could build relationships with the surrounding residents in our community. The goal has been to make disciples through growing vegetables and establishing fellowship.
Volunteer Opportunities Include:
• Serving on Garden Team
• Communications
• Helping to prepare and maintain the Garden
• Financial Support
HLBC Point of Contact:
John Blake (‘Tripp’)
Trippthewindowman@gmail.com

Fuller Center for Housing
The Fuller Center for Housing, faith-driven and Christ-centered, promotes collaboration and innovative partnerships with individuals and organizations in an unrelenting quest to provide adequate shelter for all people in need worldwide.
The Fuller Center for Housing’s purpose is simple. The city of Louisville has over 7,400 vacant and abandoned properties with over 4,460 of these homes in the heart of West Louisville neighborhoods where we are located. The FCH’s project involves tearing down these properties, rebuilding lives and rehabbing these homes for deserving poor and low-income families to have a safe place to lay their heads at night that they can and will call ‘home’.
VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES:
• Help with Construction
• Schedule a Group Project
• Donate Time
• Donate ‘In Kind’ Items (tools and materials)
• Donate a Home
• Sponsor a Home
• Sponsor an Event
HLBC Point of Contact:
John Blake (‘Tripp’)
Trippthewindowman@gmail.com

Good Samaritan Food Pantry
The HLBC Food Pantry exists to serve those in our local community who are needing one of life’s basic necessities; food. On a weekly basis, every Wednesday evening, an average of 35 to 50 families are receiving a generous portion of meat, vegetables, bread, non-perishable foods, and etc. These persons are treated with respect, dignity and offered prayer. The aim of this ministry is to demonstrate the love of Christ in hopes of encouraging them to grow in their relationship with Christ.
Volunteer Opportunities Include:
• Transporting Food
• Sorting and bagging Food
• Greeting Recipients
• Praying with Recipients
• Delivering Food to Vehicles
HLBC Point of Contact:
Cheryl Singleton
CherylMSingleton@bellsouth.net

Bside U for Life
This ministry exists to protect the lives of unborn children and to present the gospel of Jesus Christ in word and deed to those who are facing or have experienced a crisis pregnancy.
This Ministry Provides:
• Free Pregnancy Counseling
• Counseling for Women who have had Abortions
• Abortion and Pregnancy Alternatives
• Free Ultrasounds
• Life Skills Training
• Referrals for: Medical Care, Financial Assistance, Legal Assistance and Adoption Services
Volunteer Opportunities Include:
• Crisis Pregnancy Counseling
• Medical Professionals and Assistants
• GED Language
• Preparing Meals
• Donor Relations
• Grounds and Housekeeping
• Reception Volunteer
• Organizing Baby and Maternity Clothes
• Children’s Ministry
• Prayer Ministry
• Event Planning
• Church Liaison
Every year we participate in a baby bottle collection. We distribute empty baby bottles and fill them with loose change and return them as a special offering of extra financial support.
HLBC Point of Contact:
Mary Beth Blake
mareblake84@gmail.com

Hands of Hope 4 Women
Hands of Hope exists to share the love of Jesus to the residents of the Budgetel Inn, while encouraging and challenging women to be the best they can be, and helping them understand that life is incredibly difficult especially in their life stage. But by the grace of God all things are possible, and we encourage them by offering a once a month outreach and which includes fellowship, a gospel message and invitation, and door prizes. We serve a Thanksgiving and Christmas meal every single year.
How can you serve:
• Donate Personal Care Items
• Lead Worship for monthly
• Provide a Meal
• Serve or help make box meals (due to covid)
• Lead a devotion at the once a month
• Lead a Bible Study
HLBC Point of Contact:
Kimberly Robinson
handsofhope4women@gmail.com




