The Sanctuary of Hope

09/22/2024

Good morning!

Thank you for joining us in this Sunday celebration !

03/26/2024

HELP!

Friends and family across the 757:

We need a standard/typical/ordinary/regular household kitchen refrigerator in a soup kitchen.

Does anyone have a used one in good condition and is in a position to donate it to HOPE?

Thank you for your consideration! If so, you can comment below or send a private message. If not, please share with the widest dissemination.

I look forward to hearing from you. Until then, I remain…

YOUR MISSIONARY TO THE POOR,

Frank

12/24/2023

Dear Friends and Family,

Please consider helping me!

I have two more families to finish HOPE's Christmas 2023. One single mother has 10 children. Five are in sixth grade and below. Five are 11-17 years old. I have enough toys, but we do not have any suitable clothing and hygiene items, and we have nothing at all for teenagers.

Her 15 and 17-year-old sons have been shot—wrong place and wrong time. Both were shot this year. The 15-year-old was shot when he was 14. The family has suffered a lot of trauma and is in desperate need of HOPE. Three of her boys, ages 15, 13, and 12, are in my CHARACTER-THROUGH-WORK (C-T-W) Program. I pick them up after school, on days when school is closed, and on Saturdays. They work at the warehouse, unloading tractor trailers, sorting, packing, loading the HOPE truck, and delivering the goods. They also pick up donated furniture, bring it back, clean it, help make necessary repairs, and deliver it to families in need, especially families transitioning from a homeless shelter to an apartment.

In C-T-W, our boys and young men learn essential skills that many of us take for granted. Things our fathers’ passed to us: how to work, how to carry on a conversation, how to smile, how to laugh, and how to behave around people. They also learn there are good people in this world and work is more than just showing up. It's accomplishing the task. It's finishing the job in a way that makes you proud when you look at what you have done. We provide them with a small stipend. But most of all, we have them in the presence of godly men, teaching and modeling biblical character and demonstrating Christian principles.

My next family is a retired widow who is a single mom with an adult daughter. The mother relies on her Social Security. She works in every aspect of this ministry as a volunteer. She does everything I or anyone else does. She lifts, totes, and drives the forklift and large cargo truck. She wrestles with those struggling with alcoholism, addiction, and mental health issues. She preaches and teaches as well, all as a full-time volunteer.

About ten years ago, a homeless addict handed her a beautiful baby girl who was between two and three years old and then disappeared. The judge awarded our friend temporary custody ten years ago. Now thirteen, she works in the ministry alongside the only Momma she has known. She is too old for toys and can't afford the clothes that other girls wear, always wearing clothing from the HOPE closet (Well, you understand...) and never complaining. Neither she nor her mother has asked for anything, but both have worked so hard for so long for nothing and have never been able to have anything trendy. I ask you to help me make this Christmas memorable for this girl. Her life has been difficult enough transitioning to teen years in public school is hard enough without standing out because your clothes are considered as less than.

Please consider helping by sending a small Christmas offering/donation through Cash App, Venmo, Zelle, or PayPal to help purchase clothing and hygiene items to help me finish HOPE's 2023 Christmas Ministry. No gift is too small or too large, and any contribution will go a long way in assisting our cause. Thank you in advance for your support.
I look forward to hearing from you. Until then, I remain...

YOUR MISSIONARY TO THE POOR,

Frank Allen
HOPE®

https://cash.app/$frank4hope

https://www.paypal.me/HOPEFrank?locale.x=en_US

https://www.venmo.com/u/Hope_Charitable_Services

10/16/2023

COLLEAGUES, FAMILY & FRIENDS,

Help with reestablishing my contact list. I lost my contacts due to my error.

If we communicate by phone, text or email, please text me your contact card or your full name and email address.

Thank you! I look forward to hearing from you.

Remember, you should have my cell phone number in your phone …

04/15/2022

Good Friday is a witness of our Lord’s brave fearlessness, a testimony of His boundless love, a historical signature sealing His unfailing covenant of promises for you concerning the propitiation of your sin, your salvation, your healing, your provision,  your protection, and for those you bring to him—your family, friends, neighbors and even your enemies. As you pause today to remember Him, please remember every step, every blow, every wound, every stripe, every pain, every taunt, every jeer, every insult, every piece of torn flesh, and drop of blood was for you. That is what makes this bloody and brutal Friday our Good Friday.

02/27/2022

Technical difficulties beyond our control has prevented us from sharing our service here on “live”.

We should be back by next week

01/01/2022

- Praise
- Worship
- Reflection
- Encouragement
- Inspiration
- Holy Communion
- Washing of Feet
- Praying out 2021
- Praying in 2022

Full pandemic mitigation protocols will be in effect.

11/17/2021

URGENT NEED!

Please consider helping our ministry to the poor. This is our 29th year and the most difficult year we’ve ever faced. A significant decrease in giving has hard hit our daily operations budget during this second year of Covid. Many things are breaking down in our ministry, including our big diesel HOPE TRUCK. It is broken down right now. We are receiving calls to pick up donations of much-needed food and clothing. Commercial size rental trucks are at a premium, and with our low receipts, they are becoming cost-prohibitive. In addition, the flat roof over our soup kitchen, chapel foyer, and female restrooms has completely failed. Please consider helping us. Every $1, $5, $10, $20, $50, $100, $500, $1,000, or $10,0000 or more will help.

Please feel free to use our convenient and safe online donations platform to make your tax-deductible contribution by clicking the link below.

Or if you like, you may mail your check or money order to:

HOPE
PO Box 7816
Portsmouth, VA 23707-0816

Thank you for your prayer, time, and consideration in this matter. I hope to hear from you. Until then, I remain…

YOUR MISSIONARY TO THE POOR,

Frank Allen
Director | Founder
HOPE (a.k.a. Hope Charitable Services

Bless the Poor Jesus said, “Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto Me.…” Matthew 25:40 Your support means so much to families living in …

11/16/2021

Please share across Portsmouth with the widest dissemination..🥦

09/16/2021

Please listen and share with the broadest destination!

Find your purpose and getting to your destination…

God help us! This is the preaching, teaching, and examples of right living that the Holy Spirit used to reach, teach, and keep me. Growing up in Southeastern North Carolina, there were several metaphors for “awesome preaching when the content was well prepared, awesome, and dynamically delivered with the anointing that is fueled with extensive prayer. “ 

This woman mastered each   metaphor: she named the baby, shucked the corn, shelled the peas, hoed the row, lit the church, told us how the cow ate the cabbage…. Please put aside your biases and allow this woman of God to bless you from the Holiness-Pentecostal tradition.

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