REPAIRER
OF THE BREACH MINISTRIES
ADOPT-A-BLOCK
OUTREACH
INTRODUCTION
The Repairer of the
Breach Ministries (ROBM) is a nonprofit outreach dedicated to
helping the inner-city. Our
ministry provides hope by meeting both tangible and spiritual needs
we provide food, clothing, shelter, life rehabilitation and
job training, biblical training and much more through our outreach
ministries. We will
reach many needy people, especially children and adults across all
races and cultures.
Repairer of the Breach
Ministries Adopt-A-Block (ROBM AAB) strives to help solve moral
decay, crime, drugs, gangs, homelessness and poverty epidemics that
exist in out city.
Our vision for ROBM
AAB is to see thousands of hurting people come to know a new life
through the effort of out staff, volunteers, and recently
rehabilitated individuals whose lives have been drastically changed.
GOALS
- To network with co-operations, non-profits
organizations, foundations and individuals around the city to
reach the lost and help meet their most basic needs.
- To implement programs that meet the needs, help the
hearts and solve the problems of the inner city by developing
new and creative methods to communicate a positive message to
those who would otherwise not hear it.
- Reach out to young children, teenagers and adults by
providing for their physical needs by presenting the message of
hope, provide clothing, food and shelter and restore their
broken families.
- To provide a model for inner-city outreach groups.
- To generate continual prayer support and financial
giving.
THE
NEED FOR
ADOPT-A-BLOCK
The AAB program is
located in the heart of poverty, hopelessness and violence.
ROBM AAB is surrounded by gang members who actively recruit
young children into lives of violence and drugs.
Poverty and addictions have sent many to a life of crime and
violence. Each night in
Chicago thousands of people sleep withou8t shelter.
Approximately 1 in 6 families is living below the poverty
line. The average family
income for the poor has declined by 24% since 1967.
The individuals are in desperate need of housing, food and
clothi8ng. City
resources are stretched to the breaking point and most shelters have
a six-month waiting list.
The children are the
most negatively affected. Nationally,
50% of Caucasian children, 80% of African-American children and
approximately 60% of Latino children live in single-parent homes for
at least part of their childhood.
These children are five times more likely to live below the
poverty line than the children who live with both parents.
In Chicago in the African-American community, the rate of
poverty among children is almost 50% higher than the poverty rate
among the city population as a whole.
Most of the children will experience lives of gangs, drugs,
crimes, and illicit sex.
Cities across the
country and around the world mirror the situation in Chicago.
The world will soon have over 300 cities with a population
over one million. Cities
will continue to see and increase in crime, drugs and poverty.
The problem of the inner-city will increasingly affect all
Americans.
THE NEED FOR
VOLUNTEERS
Interested
in volunteering for Repairer
of the Breach Adopt-A-Block
There
are tons of ways for you to get involved.
If you can volunteer for:
One
afternoon a week
An
Entire week
An
entire month
An
entire year
Then
this is the place for you to come experience the time of y our
life!!!
DONATIONS
The ROBM AAB program
is a non-profit, 501c3; therefore, any contributions you make are
tax-deductible.
- ROBM is always in need of gifts-in-kind, such as
furniture, appliances, bedding, clothing, etc.
We
will accept almost anything that is in good working conditions.
- Donations can be picked up within a 25-mile radius,
from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday.
- Any donated item may be dropped at the ROBM office
9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday.
- We are in need of donating partners, volunteers and a
bus.
- We will accept cars, trucks or vans for our
transportation purposes.
- We are in need of individuals or companies that can
support us on a monthly or quarterly basis.
PURPOSE
-
Get into the community, meeting people in their homes,
in their neighborhoods to assess needs and help them meet them.
-
Restore a sense of pride, AAG is sort of a jack-o-all
trades from taking food to families, helping them do yard work,
graffiti removal and community clean-up through the worse
neighborhoods in Chicago to jumping rope with kids in the street.
-
Every Saturday we foresee hundreds of volunteers going
out to visit homes throughout the community, talking with elderly
people who are lonely, sharing God’s love with people who are in
need, also helping care for the basic needs they are facing
Many
are working families that cannot overcome the poverty around them,
doing the best the pay their bills or keep their homes.
We are able to help with food for the families, supply
diapers, or just lend a hand with housework they may just have
difficulty getting to. In
turn, many of these who will have been helped will soon go out with
us to help their neighbors a well.
We are able to build on and further our outreach by following
up through the week and running programs that help provide for
people’s needs in some of the hardest areas in the city - in the
New City/Back of the Yards neighborhoods.
Our AAB program literally grows and changes each week as we
find new and more creative ways to meet the needs of the people..
Connect your business,
church, schools with your neighborhood.
Businesses are
encouraged to support the AAB program financially and by sponsoring
advertisement, donating food and other supplies.
AAB is very much like
a construction company. Each
one is doing his part to build something that seems impossible: the
church, the business, the community, the Police, the City officials
are all working together to see city blocks change and restored back
to what they were intended to be.
We invite you to join
our team and build the ruined city that Isaiah 58 says we can
rebuild together.
“Your people will
rebuild the ancient ruins and raise up the age-old foundation.
You will be called repairer of the broken walls, restorer of
streets with dwellings.”
REPAIRER
OF THE BREACH MINISTRIES
WHO
ARE WE?
We are a non-profit
coalition and partnership composed of local churches, city
government, local businesses, community associations, the Police
Department, a diversity of service and health agencies and residents
that work together to bring restoration to out City – block by
block.
Our goal is to
effectively meet the varying needs of individuals, families and
their community spiritually, emotionally, mentally and physically.
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