Tallowood participates and partners with various ministries around the Houston metro area. To find out how you can be involved please click the appropriate ministry name.
Street Reach
Montrose Street Reach
Martin & Kim Dale, YWAM, Youth with a Mission, along with Joe Williams aka Preacher Joe together joined to form Montrose Street Reach in early 2000's. They reach out to teens and young adults and their babies living on the streets of Montrose.
On the 4th Wednesday of every month, Tallowood members prepare a “hot meal” to be served after they have their “street church” service in a parking lot behind a building on the corner of Lovett & Yoakum. We meet around 6:30 pm in the back parking lot of Tallowood church to collect the food and to carpool down there, for those who wish to help to serve. We are always looking for help in preparing part of the meal and/or to help serve the meal! Also donated items such as mosquito spray, diapers, soy formula, clothes, socks, caps and gloves for the winter are ALWAYS welcomed. If you would like more information, please contact Mary Idiaquez at Home 713-856-7998/Cell 832-264-7998 or email at midiaquez@comcast.net
Apartment Ministries
The Apartment Ministry ministers to people each week away from the church campus. Ministries are performed in apartment complexes with after-school Bible clubs for children and Bible studies for adults.
For more information, please contact the church office @ 713.468.8241 or email EHallock@ tallowood.org
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Mission Centers of Houston
In addition to providing monthly monetary support for the the Mission Centers of Houston, Tallowood members and volunteers consistently donate their time, talents, food, and grocery bags to the centers’ food bank. This is never more apparent than when thousands of dollars in money, dry goods, turkeys and presents are collected and donated to the centers each year during the holidays. BMC needs volunteers.
For more information, please visit the MC website at http://missioncenters.org/ or contact the church office at 713.468.8241.
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Open Door Mission
Open Door Mission is a faith-based recovery and rehabilitation shelter dedicated to transforming the lives of the addicted, destitute, homeless or disabled. It operates with volunteer help and donations from individuals, churches, and the community. This "safe" haven provides food, clothing, hope, faith, and spiritual encouragement to the disadvantaged. It runs a faith-based program for education, job study, and recuperation from addictions.
For more information or to volunteer call 713 921-7520.
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Criminal Justice Prison Ministries
This is a marvelous ministry of love and compassion which seeks to reach those who have taken the wrong path. It consists of:
* The adult drug rehab ministry
* The juvenile boot camp and detention ministries
* Organized prison and jail visitations
* Bible lesson correspondence with prisoners – Write-Way
* The Bill Glass Champions for Life ministry
* Hospitality House for families of Death Row prisoners and others.
Volunteers visit incarcerated juveniles one day a week witnessing and bringing bible studies to these young men. “Super Saturday,” a program of music, testimonies and motivational speakers is held four times a year at alternating Harris County detention centers. In addition, Tallowood members participate in the Angel Tree Christmas program. Children whose fathers and/or mothers are incarcerated are matched with volunteers who bring them a brighter Christmas.
If you wish to participate in these ministries/programs or for more information, please contact the church office at 713.468.8241 or email Elmo Meroney at elmohedy06@ att.net
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ESL Classes
Tallowood ESL is fellowship, Bible study, crafts, cooking, and, an opportunity for volunteers to personally witness to men and women from many foreign countries. The program is conducted on Wednesday mornings from 9:30 to Noon during the Fall and Spring regular school semesters. It is staffed by Tallowood volunteers who work with small groups of students teaching basic English pronunciation and grammar during the first hour and various specialty classes - crafts, cooking, sewing, Bible study, etc. - during the 2nd hour. All who have a desire to learn to speak and feel more comfortable with the English language are welcome. No prior teaching experience is required to volunteer. Tallowood will provide all the necessary training.
For more information, please contact the church office at 713.468.8241 or email Lucy Worrell at rworrell@ pdq.net
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Mission Greenspoint
Mission Greenspoint exists to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ with individuals. Our Mission is to help people love God, His Word and His creation; to help them become more self-sufficient and family-centered; and to undergird the establishment and growth of the local church. Greenspoint operates a food pantry, clothes closet, Adult Education classes, Pregnancy Assistance Center, and more.
For more informaion visit their website or to volunteer call Cindy Butler at 281-872-1422.
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Gracewood Single Moms
Gracewood is an independent, Christian-based ministry that assists single-parent mothers and their children through residential group care, mentoring, financial planning, teaching, counseling and referral to valuable community resources.
The Gracewood campus is located on three beautiful, wooded acres in a Southwest Houston residential area. Construction is underway on a second campus in Northwest Houston. Future plans include additional campuses throughout the Houston area, expanded services for families not in residence on campus, and increased programs for families in residential care.
Gracewood is a 501 c 3 not-for-profit organization, one of four ministries affiliated with Children At Heart Ministries headquartered in Round Rock, Texas.
For more information about Gracewood, you may contact us at info@gracewood.org or call 713 988-9757.
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Retirement Center Ministry
This wonderful ministry provides Sunday afternoon worship services at various retirement facilities in Houston. Volunteer lay ministers bring the Word of God to the elderly, who are often unable to go to church and/or neglected by their family and friends. Volunteer pianists and song leaders ensure that the services include the old familiar hymns that provide joy and comfort to the residents as they worship. The volunteers experience a great sense of service to those who are so appreciative of any attention shown them. Click here for locations, times and types of volunteer positions at each location.
Please contact David Sproul at 281-352-2072 for additional information or to volunteer, or click here .
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Seafarer's Ministry
Each year, during the months of October and November, Tallowood members have the opportunity to minister to seafarers from all over the world by donating toiletries and small personal items which are then gift wrapped in shoeboxes by volunteers and delivered to the Port of Houston for the holidays. For more information specifically about the seafarer’s boxes, please click here. Tallowood also supports the Seafarer’s Center in Freeport, Texas. The Seaman's Center is a ministry to international seafarers aboard merchant ships entering the Freeport Harbor. The ministry includes shipboard visitation, van transportation, recreation, literature distribution, shopping, friendship and spiritual counseling.
Email Charlotte Mitchell at mitchell.mike@ att.net for more information or call the church office at 713.468.8241.
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International Friends
This is a Sunday School class for those who want to learn English using the Bible. Classes meet from 9:30 AM until noon every Sunday in NT 206. Childcare is provided.
Call Billy and Charly Hunter at 832-724-5583 for more information.
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My Brothers Keeper
My Brothers’ Keeper is a sewing ministry that each year ministers to hundreds of people locally, state-wide, and internationally without ever leaving Tallowood. On the second, fourth, and fifth Monday of each month, the group works in room ET-102 to meet whatever needs have been presented by other Tallowood ministries. They have sent tote bags with cosmetic cases to pastors' wives in Brazil, book bags to children in Africa and Mexico, clothing to an orphans in Mexico and tote bags to ladies in Collique, Peru. They have sewn coats, scarves, and caps for an orphanage in Nepal and for an Indian orphanage in Arizona.
My Brothers’ Keeper has also made curtains for the Mission of Yahweh and for a half way house that serves parolees. They have sewn lap quilts with matching pillow cases for the Ronald McDonald House, and quilts for homeless persons. Baptist Mission Centers of Houston has received book bags, Christmas stockings, and over 50 large backdrops for the Center’s Christmas Store. Around Tallowood, the group has created costumes for Vacation Bible School, the Tallowood Players, and the live nativity. The group has even sewn baptismal robes and, years later, mended them.
For more information please contact the church office at 713.468.8241.
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West End Baptist Church is located 802 Shepherd Dr., 77007.
For more information on this opportunity please contact Horace Perry for the food pantry at 713-462-7925, and John Iler for "Big A" at 713-467-2627.