FamilyTime Crisis and Counseling Center/The Door
FamilyTime Crisis and Counseling Center/The Door assists area families and individuals in crisis. To that end, FamilyTime needs help in many ways, including financial assistance, and volunteers for The Door (a shelter for battered women and their children), Counseling Center, Thrift Shops and fundraising events. Contact: Judy Cox at (281) 446-2615

Kairos Prison Ministry
Kairos Prison Ministry, which evolved from Cursillo, brings Christ’s love and forgiveness to prisoners and their families and friends. A Christian,
lay-led, ecumenical, international program, Kairos uses talks, meditation, and individual and group activities to help prisoners live in a personal relationship with the living Christ, who is presented as the only total solution to salvation and change. In short, they are taught ways to turn their lives around. For more information, contact Rusty Paull (281)852-5502.

St James House, a ministry of the Episcopal Diocese of Texas, is embarking on a process of transforming the way we care for people in nursing homes, creating a new culture to support human frailty with dignity, choice, respect, self-determination and purposeful living. St James House offers a comprehensive rehabilitation program and skilled nursing care to 105 residents. Alexander Hall provides gracious independent living for older adults in 40 apartment units. St. James House offers financial assistance to many of the residents who cannot pay the full cost of their care. Emily Maas and Pam Nolting currently serve on the St. James House Board of Trustees. For more information call 281-425-1200 or visit www.stjameshouse.org.

Holy Trinity Episcopal School
Accredited by the Southwestern Association of Episcopal Schools, Holy Trinity’s mission is to prepare students for higher education and a meaningful life experience through a program emphasizing academic excellence, spiritual development and social responsibility. Currently, the school serves students in Pre-K 3 through eighth grade from 10 area school districts. In the Fall of 2009, the school added a University Preparatory Academy to prepare students in grades nine through 12 for their technical world of tomorrow. 
For more information, contact Reba Kingsbury, assistant head for advancement, at (281)459-4323 or rkingsbury@holytrinityeschool.org Also, visit the school’s website at www.holytrinityeschool.org Good Shepherd’s representative for the school is Richard Hawley (281)-359-4342).

Seafarers' Center
The Seafarers' Center at the Port of Houston is a “home away from home” for seafarers. Chartered in the late 1960s/early 1970s by the local maritime industry, community leaders and churches, the center provides a safe and welcoming recreational and spiritual environment on land for those who have chosen the sea as their livelihood. Many volunteers give of their time and talent to the center which also has a team of ministers on duty.Contact: Rev. Lacey Largent (713)672-0511 houstonchaplains@yahoo.com