During the Summer, Citychurch will feed 150,000 meals, provide summer day camp for hundreds of children and train over 1000 students who will serve a short-term missionaries. Your gifts of support can help Citychurch make a real difference in the lives of thousands of Amarillo area children.
“The Gospel, the good news of God’s forgiveness, should be as free and available to everyone as the air we breathe.”
— Founder, Don Lane Sr.
Our values are based on the truth found in God’s Word.
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Our experience has taught us a great deal and we have always shared what we’ve learned with others.
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bringing help with hope to families since 1997
…because help with no hope is no help at all.
With every meal that Citychurch delivers to a child, we also carry the gift of God’s forgiveness.
Have you ever had a feeling that after having enough for your needs you were still missing something? Here at Citychurch, after working with many people who shared that sentiment, we concluded that such a feeling was the lack of hope that those people had, even once they received enough for their needs. When we learned it, we decided to make our motto that, “help without hope is not help at all.”
At Citychurch we are committed to assist children and families in their basics needs such as food, clothes, diapers, etc. However, our motto has helped us to see and led us to provide beyond their physical needs; we want them to have hope. We want them to have hope that we are there for them; that they are not alone. We want them to have hope that better days can come. We want them to have hope that their lives can be transformed, and we know that God is the One who can do all these things in their lives.
The Word of God in Jeremiah 29:11 says, “For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.” God spoke these words through the prophet Jeremiah to his people Israel in a time when they were captive in Babylon. They were suffering and hopeless missing their homeland and with no good expectation about their future. God, then, sent a message of hope to encourage them to trust in Him. The Lord made clear that his plans for them were plans of welfare and not of evil. Those children that we help at Citychurch have the right to know that God has a plan for them, which includes the provision for their physical needs and a better future as well.
When we share this message of hope, we help those children and their families to see beyond their struggles and to trust that the Lord has not forgotten them. We help them to believe that there is a future for them, and it can be much better than the present. We do believe that God has called Citychurch to do more than provide for physical needs. We do believe that God has called us to proclaim a better life to those people we serve, and because of that every time we care for those physical needs, we also give to them a Word of hope, an act of hope by praying for them, because help without hope is not help at all.
Valmir Pereira, Pastor of Counseling