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
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!…
You have the power to impact countless lives and transform communities… 100% of your gift helps restore dignity.
Since January, we have equipped more than 100 leaders to take Jobs for Life back to their communities. Our goal is to equip 100 more this year. To do so, we must engage visionary leaders who desire to see their communities transformed. Your gift will support us in doing just that!
We hope you will consider getting us to our $200,000 goal. We appreciate you and could not do this important work without you!