Outreach
Alongside: Renewing and Equipping Christian Leaders
Alongside is a Christian counseling and retreat ministry geared to the unique needs of Christian leaders, especially pastors and missionaries. At an Alongside retreat, you’ll find a safe place — a place where caring, professional counselors can come alongside you as you seek healing and renewed strength for ministry.
John DeKruyter
Executive Director
Alongside Inc.
PO Box 587
Richland, MI 49083-0587
P: 269-671-4809
F: 269-671-4977
Alongside
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Alternatives of Kalamazoo Pregnancy Care Center
Alternatives' mission is to reach our community with the Gospel of Jesus Christ by offering hope and meeting physical, emotional, and spiritual needs that safeguard the rights, dignity, and health of unborn children and their parents.
Dave Bos
Executive Director
Email: dave@pregnancychoices.com
Main Campus
4200 West Michigan, Suite 100
Kalamazoo, MI 49006
P: 269-345-1740
Hours: Monday to Friday 10am to 4pm
Edison Dream Center
1122 Portage St.
Kalamazoo, MI 49001
P: 269-382-4760
Hours: Tuesday 10am to 4pm
(closed for lunch 12-1pm)
Wednesday 1pm to 4pm
Email: counseling@pregnancychoices.com
Alternatives Pregnancy Care Center
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Forgotten Man Ministries
Forgotten Man Ministries brings together inmates, chaplains, and lay-workers in the study and ministry of God's Word. Forgotten Man Ministries chaplains conduct daily in-house jail ministries that include Biblical one-on-one counseling, Bible correspondence courses, group Bible studies, discipleship training units (group Bible pods), distribution of Bibles and Christian books, showing of Christian DVD's, and the facilitation of pastor visits and local church worship services.
Chaplain Dick Larson
Kalamazoo County Jail
P: 269-342-6146
3940 Fruit Ridge Ave. NW
Grand Rapids, MI 49544
P: 616-784-4620
Email: fmmjailministry@aol.com
Forgotten Man Ministries
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Kalamazoo Deacons Conference
The mission of the Kalamazoo Deacons Conference is to share the love and Jesus Christ by meeting the physical and spiritual needs of people in crisis. The Kalamazoo Deacons Conference shares Christ’s love with people in need tangibly through clothing, furniture, household items, personal care items and emergency financial assistance.
Terri Thomas
Director
1010 N Westnedge Ave
Kalamazoo, MI 49007
P: 269-344-7333
Hours
Monday – Thursday: 9:00-5:00
Friday: 9:00-5:00 (for accepting donations only)
1st and 3rd Saturday of each month 9:00-1:00 (for accepting donations only)
No guests are seen on Fridays and Saturdays.
Kalamazoo Deacons Conference
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Kalamazoo Gospel Mission
Meeting the spiritual, emotional and physical needs of the homeless and reaching people with the gospel through various services and programs; including women’s and children’s ministries, men’s ministries, housing, auto department, the thrift store and food service.
Rev. Michael Brown
Executive Director
Email: director@kzoogospel.org
P: 269-553-0672, ext. 1
Kalamazoo Gospel Mission
448 North Burdick St.
Kalamazoo, MI 49007
P: 269-345-2974
F: 269-345-9169
Email: Info@KzooGospel.org
Kalamazoo Gospel Mission
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Kalamazoo Youth for Christ
YFC reaches young people everywhere, working together with the local church and other like-minded partners to raise up lifelong followers of Jesus who lead by their godliness in lifestyle, devotion to prayer and the Word of God, passion for sharing the love of Christ and commitment to social involvement.
Sean Hughes
Executive Director
Email: sean@kalamazooyfc.org
Monday - Friday: 9:00am to 4:00pm
122 W. Crosstown Parkway
Kalamazoo, MI 49001
P: 269-388-9374
F: 269-388-3888
Kalamazoo Youth For Christ
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Open Hearts Ministry: Grace for the Journey
Open Hearts is on a mission to equip people on their journey to wholeness in Christ through multiplying life-giving communities around the world. Coming to wholeness and maturity is an on-going process that involves the emotional, spiritual, intellectual and physical components of our lives. This is a process that cannot happen in isolation, but only in healthy homes and communities.
Sandy Burdick, Ministry Founder
161 E. Michigan Ave, Suite 600
Kalamazoo, MI 49007
P: 269-383-3597
Email: office@ohmin.org
Open Hearts Ministry
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Valor: The Military Ministry
It is the vision of Military Campus Ministry to reach our future military leaders for Christ at their initial entry points at our U.S. service academies and the more than 270 Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) college campuses. We help them grow in their faith and help them become disciple makers around the world at their future duty assignments.
Jim Hocker
12627 East D Avenue
Augusta, MI 49012
P: 757-945-4009
Great Lakes Region (MI, IL, IN, OH)
Valor Ministry