Page 4 - 2017 Spring Newsletter

Mission Ministry

Annual Financial Contributions
Greater White Stone Missionary Baptist Church contributes yearly
to the following organizations. At your leisure, visit each website
to see what a blessing you and your gifts are to each
organization.
Hope Works (www.whyhopeworks.org) Hope Works is an
organization that provides care for the poor and homeless. They offer
GED classes for the individuals desiring to further their education. Hope
Works has a 13-week Personal Career and Development Class.
Mending Vessels (www.mendingvessels.com) This is A PNBC
Women’s Auxiliary Project. This ministry is a nonprofit corporation
founded on Christian principles dedicated to the holistic wellness of
women through the sharing of Inter-Generational Blessings (IGB). Issues
of today's women are addressed through prayer, open discussion,
scripture, and spiritual practices. Their goals are to help women of all
ages meet the challenges in coping with everyday life; to bridge the gap
between ages through shared inter-generational blessings and to
promote healthcare awareness.
MIFA (www.mifa.org) MIFA provides family programs such as
Emergency Service, Rapid Rehousing, Emergency Shelter Placement and
Meals on Wheels. MIFA also provides senior programs such as Long Term
Care Assistance, Senior Companion Program and Senior Transit.
Porter-Leath (www.porterleath.org) Porter-Leath now serves over
10,000 children and families every year through a variety of programs
including residential services, foster and adoptive care, early childhood
and parent education, senior services and more.
Trinity Community Coalition Outreach
(www.trinitycommunitycoalitionoutreach.blogspot.com)
Trinity Outreach offers affordable supportive housing designed to
provide housing and appropriate support services to persons who are
homeless or who are close to homelessness. The transition is to help
them be more self sufficient to move towards independent living on their
own.
Make A Difference, Inc. (www.madifference.org) M.A.D., Inc. is a
licensed Tennessee Intensive Outpatient Treatment program and a
Tennessee Division of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services’
provider. M.A.D. provides high-quality behavioral health and alcohol/
substance abuse services to adult male and female recipients throughout
the Memphis/Shelby county metropolitan area who are diagnosed with a
severe and persistent mental illness, and substance abuse. The program
provides support, hope, encouragement, and empowerment to help
those in need lead productive and quality lives.

Approximately 4,500 babies are born at the Regional Medical Center
each year. While healthy babies spend time in the well-baby nursery
before heading home with their mothers, more than 1,300 premature or
critically ill newborns are treated in the Newborn Center each year. The
Greater White Stone Mission Ministry provides a Mother’s Day Program
each year for the parents (present and past) of the patients in the
neonatal intensive care unit and prenatal care unit. The parents are
showered with words of encouragement, prayers, powerful poems,
informative information from the staff of the Regional Medical Center
and the Mission Ministry. A reception and meet and greet is given after
the program. This year’s program will be May 11, 2017.