Helping Mentally Ill Homeless People Get Off and Stay Off the Streets
Servants Center is a nonprofit non-denominational faith-based organization that provides high quality, relationship-based street outreach and ongoing support services to mentally ill poor people experiencing homelessness in the Grand Rapids, Michigan, area. We organized in 1991, as a result of our concern about the drift of churches away from direct relationship-based poverty ministry. We work to be ambassadors for Jesus Christ as we carry out the Biblical imperative to help to the poor. For going on 40 years, we’ve helped thousands of highly vulnerable people go from living on the streets to living in stable healthy situations for good.
Currently, Servants Center is guardian and payee for approximately 300 people in the Grand Rapids area. We create a trusted relationship with our clients and provide ongoing direct services to cover the specific needs of each individual’s circumstances. We also provide educational programs throughout west Michigan about our work. This includes Sunday guest preaching, training seminars, and consulting services to help churches develop effective poverty ministries among the poor in their own communities - urban, suburban, or rural.
Would your church, civic group, or college class like to learn more about the unique ministry of Servants Center?
We would love to make a presentation to your group! Partners are critical to our work — especially our compassionate donors. We are funded entirely through private contributions from churches, individuals, corporations, and foundations. We use no governmental funding and are accredited by the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability (ECFA). If your church, business, or group would like to direct charitable funds to Servants Center, please reach out! 616.456.8512 / scgr@scgr.org
Did you know over 30% of chronically homeless people in the U.S. have severe neurological brain disease? Our founder, Pastor Don Tack, wrote the following articles about the work we do: “About the Mentally Ill Homeless; Gods Heart for the Homeless” and “Biblical Foundations of Poverty Ministry”. To read Pastor Tack’s articles, click here.
