Background:

Hope for the Inner City is a merger of two faith-based organizations with a shared history of helping people trapped in poverty and despair.

For 37 years, Inner City Ministries reached the poor through mercy ministry and youth programs. For 11 years, Hope for Chattanooga moved many of these same people from dependency to self-sufficiency. Both nonprofits, separately launched by New City Fellowship pastor Randy Nabors, merged in 2007. Since 1971, the people at Hope for the Inner City have walked alongside chronically poor residents of East Chattanooga. We’ve lent them a listening ear and a helping hand. We’ve furnished food, dental care, prescriptions, and after-school tutoring. We’ve helped them balance a checkbook and learn to read. We’ve helped some secure temporary housing. We’ve helped others find permanent homes and good jobs, and we’ve taught them the skills to retain both.

Ministry:

Hope for the Inner City seeks to transform an individual holistically. Programs are designed to meet those fundamental human needs that lead to success as an individual and as a member of the community. Through the ministries of Neighborhood Outreach, Jobs Partnership, Harambee Housing Services and Lifting Hands Educational Development, and the renewing power of Christ, Hope for the Inner City seeks to reconcile relationships and change lives by providing leadership development, economic stability, educational opportunities, and affordable housing.

https://www.wearehfic.org/

Prayer Requests:

• HFIC’s leadership to promote a strong, unified mission and voice for meeting the needs of the inner city
• Wisdom with respect to community transformation and a broader, more in-depth range of services
• Staffing and ministry financial concerns
• Stronger relationships with area churches