4-star rating!
3rd Year in a Row!
1315 N. 15th Street
Waco, TX 76707
(254) 753-4900

Our Mission:

1) Provide Christian-based holistic, relationship-based programs that empower the poor and marginalized

2) Mobilize middle-class Americans to become more compassionately involved among the poor

3) Seek ways to overcome the systemic issues of social injustice which oppress the poor and marginalized


History

Read more from our Executive Director

Read more about

Trolls and Truth:
14 Realities About the Church We Don't Want to See,
Jimmy Dorrell's recent book

Read Dorrell's article in the Wittenburg Door

See Jimmy with Shane Claiborne and David Crowder from "Cry for the Poor"
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School Supply Store is Just Around the Corner
This project is provided to low-income parents in our programs as well as for the general public. All supplies are pre-sorted and sacked, according to the WACO ISD guidelines for Pre-K through high school students. Each sack of supplies costs the parent $5 (per child). Read more about what is needed and how you can help!
Watch the PSA for School Supply


Shoes For The Homeless celebrate Second Year
Donate a new pair of shoes for only $35, to be distributed at Mission Waco’s 8th Annual “WALK FOR THE HOMELESS” Sunday, September 19, between 8:00-10:30a.m. Beginning at Meyer Center, 1226 Washington. Church Under the Bridge will celebrate their 18th anniversary with Dr. Brenda Salter as speaker. Read More...
Watch PSA for Shoes for Homeless


Mission Waco Receives 4 Star Rating 3rd Year in Row!
We just received notice that Charity Navigator, offering “unbiased and objective” ratings data has given Mission Waco (Cross Culture Experiences, Inc) its highest “exceptional rating". This is the third year in a row, our local urban ministry has been given the highest rating. Read More...



Poor serving Poorer...
Recently at Mission Waco’s “Friday Morning Breakfast,” the weekly group of about 100+homeless, day laborers, and low-income folks who eat weekly at First Lutheran Church voted to sponsor a Haitian child in Mission Waco’s program in Ferrier, Haiti. The cost is $195/year (or $16.25/month) and the group chose to donate weekly toward the sponsorship. $36 was given this morning to kick off their weekly donations. Jim and Sharon Wolfe will now assign them the name and picture of the sponsored child. Sponsored children get to go to school (one of two Christian schools which we work with), get a uniform, books and one meal a day to eat. It is a huge privilege for the Haitian children in Ferrier. And in our minds, this is a significant step of spiritual development for those we serve in Waco to empower them to serve others instead of harbor feelings of entitlement or selfishness, even amidst their own relative poverty. “To give is to receive” is true for everyone, not just for those with lots of money.


Summer Groups Come From Around U.S. to Serve in Waco
Work Groups, Summer Interns, and Poverty Simulation Participants Fill Summer Slots. This year, groups from Wisconsin, Illi- nois, Oklahoma, Kansas, New Mexico and all over Texas have secured their dates to come serve with Mission Waco this Spring and Summer. Hundreds of student and adults come to learn about God’s concern for the poor, how to ap- propriately serve, and how to go back to make a difference in their own com- munities.



Sponsor a Haitian Child
If you are interested in sponsoring a Haitian Child, please click here for more information!
Internships
"Waco messed up my life."



Work Groups
"Our students learned they can make a difference!"



Volunteer
"It is in giving that we receive."



Poverty Simulation
"One weekend changed my life!"



Exposure Trips
"I will never be the same."
Poverty Simulation Information
One Weekend Can Change Your Life!
READ the Current ENews
Call Mission Waco office this fall to schedule your Volunteer Orientation 254-753-4900, ext 230.

See who we are ... told in photos


Donate your used books and items to help the poor!
Bring them all and we’ll go through them. READ MORE!



Read Summer 2010 Newsletter!
Children
"Our best chance to overcome the sins of the city is to offer the best assets of the Kingdom to the children in the city."

Youth
"When everyone seemed to give up on me, you were there for me."
Job Training
"I could never have found a job and my dignity without the M-Powerment Program."

Recovery
"Crack and booze had made me a slave; Mission Waco's Christian-based treatment set me free to be human again!"
Homeless
"I was a stranger and you invited me in."

Meyer Center
"A shower, food, clean clothes and lots of encouragement and opportunity to change."

Planning an Event? Have you considered Mission Waco?

Do you have an event coming soon and need a space? The Meyer Center sanctuary is available for weddings, funerals, and meetings. The dining hall is available for additional fees. Click here for more information!

Other events? A climbing wall? A meeting space? The theater? Look at what Mission Waco has to offer.