Communities
We work within our communities in a variety of ways, including the provision of assistance in finding suitable transitional housing, faith-based support groups, family guidance, and more.
Ways we work with and support our communities
- Assist in finding suitable transitional housing
- Assist in obtaining employment
- Assist in obtaining documents such as driver license, identification card, birth certificate
- Family guidance - we work in close liaison with agencies and other ministries, such as Mission Waco, Waco Regional Baptist Association,
- Christian Men and Christian Women’s Job Corps, Texas Workforce Commission, Methodist Home, MHMR and Texas Baptists
- Child protective services
- Addiction - encouraging inmates and other disenfranchised individuals to find the support groups and services that will help them to move forward in this process
- Parenthood - training parents to be better parents in all aspects of the life of their children, building better marriage relationships and communication
- Faith-based support groups - Bible study, growth in one’s Christian life, theology, personal development
Clogging the Prison Pipeline
Clogging the Prison Pipeline is a faith-based support group aimed at providing support to the ex-offender and those who are disenfranchised and marginalized. This ministry provides a facility where individuals can receive spiritual guidance as well as physical guidance and serves as a liaison connecting individuals with employers and other practical needs that may be necessary to restore wholeness back to their lives.
Tuesdays at 7:00pm
Greater New Light MBC
925 North 18th Street
Waco, Texas 76707-2903
Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counselors there is safety.