What if millions of unemployed people were working because our local communities intervened?
It would change the world.
Learn how organizations are transforming their communities using Jobs for Life as a Christ-centered discipleship platform.
Nearly
3B
people living in poverty deserve a community to love and support them
Over
200M
people worldwide are still unemployed and cannot support their families
Less than
2%
of churches focus on WORK to alleviate poverty
FEATURED SUCESS STORY
Helping Springfield Flourish Through Work
Schweitzer United Methodist Church (Springfield, Missouri) was looking for a resource to help them better serve the individuals in their community who were unemployed and underemployed. They wanted to break the job-to-job cycle they were seeing in people’s lives, and help restore their value, self-worth, and dignity. That’s when they discovered Jobs for Life (JfL). The church hosted their first Jobs for Life class in 2014, and since that time have hosted 19 JfL classes and have graduated 127 men and women. Of these graduates, 84 have obtained employment!…