Meadowbrook Church | Outreach Partners

College Park Elementary

College Park Elementary is an elementary school located in the city limits of Ocala near the College of Central Florida. We are blessed to be able to support the school by being their business partner. Our support helps children have the necessary clothes, supplies, and other items they need to be successful in the classroom. We also offer periodic help with special projects.

Saddlewood Elementary

Saddlewood Elementary is a local elementary school located north of 200 just west of Interstate 75. We are blessed to be a business partner providing children necessary clothes, supplies, and other items they need to be successful in the classroom. We also offer periodic help with special projects.

Hands of Mercy Everywhere

HOME is a multidisciplinary facility located in Belleview that houses all services required by teen moms and their babies in the foster care system and includes a community of supporters that help provide the resources needed for pregnant or parenting teenage girls to transition into adulthood.

His House for Her

His House for Her establishes a nurturing environment of belonging, safety, and love that encourages a relationship with Jesus. His House for Her shares the love of Jesus by providing trauma-informed practices in a supportive housing environment to meet the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of at-risk women in recovery.

Interfaith

Interfaith lives out its motto - “God’s hand extended to those in need” – meeting community needs through a full range of emergency services. Interfaith not only accepts monetary donations but is always appreciative of material donations and volunteer help to stock and operate their giving pantry, homeless shelter, thrift store, and new Center for Life medical clinic.

Kimberly’s Center

Kimberly’s Center is an advocacy program for mistreated children in Marion County, providing many different services from medical examinations to therapy sessions at one designated, safe location in hopes of reducing trauma for victims. This facility strives to be a compassionate response to childhood abuse and neglect, creating a child-friendly path to healing and restoration.

Empowered of Central Florida

The Rock is a non-profit, faith-based organization established under the umbrella of Empowered of Central Florida. The focus and mission of The Rock is to provide essential needs to underprivileged youth in our local community and giving them a hope for the future by providing them power in the present and by being located in several middle and high schools in Marion and Lake Counties. The Rock is staffed full time by community volunteers.

Pay It Forward

Pay It Forward provides families in financial hardships with furniture, clothing, appliances, and more. The Pay It Forward team desires to foster stability and self-worth throughout our community by helping to meet material needs.

Share the Love

Share the Love non-profit hosts annual summer camps to create positive memories for abused and neglected children and teens in the area. The family at Share the Love works year-round to develop and plan these experiences through diligent fundraising and camp counselor selections to offer young campers the best experience possible.

Sozo Kids

SoZo Kids, named for the Greek word meaning “rescue”, is a non-profit ministry providing education, recreation and compassion to children living in abject poverty in the Ocala National Forest. Mentorships, summer camps, and sponsorship programs are just the beginning of the work SoZo Kids does to bring affordable enjoyment to kids in need.

Wear Gloves

Wear Gloves navigates how to best serve distressed communities with sensitivity and respect while helping them to break the cycle of dependency. Through programs like Church in the Garden, a street church fellowship, and the Dignity Center, a vocational training location, Wear Gloves cultivates work ethic, employment, and independence. Their newest venture, Dignity Roasters, merges the ministries love of empowering distressed individuals with procuring coffee.

Education for Life (Formerly Women’s Pregnancy Center)

Education for Life engages, informs and empowers expectant mothers in unplanned pregnancies by providing pro-life care through affordable medical services, parenting classes, adoption connections, Christian counseling and more. Education for Life is a non-profit, Christian-centered ministry in Ocala to uphold the truth that all life has value.

Pearl Project

Like pearls, many children’s stories begin in hard places. The Pearl Project offers hope and practical help to children impacted by trauma, foster care, or adoption through trauma-informed educational opportunities and support groups.

Project Hope

Project HOPE is an international global health and humanitarian aid non-government organization founded in the United States in 1958. Project HOPE works in five main areas: disasters and health crises; infectious diseases; noncommunicable diseases; maternal, neonatal and child health; and health policy.

Fostering Foundation.

Fostering Foundation supports foster families with a system of care from their local community and churches. For a foster family, bringing a child into the home, especially a child of trauma, requires time for adjustment to a loving, safe environment. Families can do this when they have a system of care supporting them. Fostering Foundation helps local foster families by providing support in four areas: meals, prayer, financial, and childcare.

HIS Compassion Food Bank

HIS Compassion Food Bank is a non-profit food bank in Ocala providing over 21 million pounds of food to 7 counties in the North Central Florida area. ‘For I was hungry and you gave Me food; I was thirsty and you gave Me drink…’ Matthew 25:35-36. His Compassion helps and empowers those in need right where they are.

Fellowship of Christian Athletes

FCA focuses on serving local communities around the globe by engaging, equipping and empowering coaches and athletes to unite, inspire, and change the world through the Gospel. Relationships will demonstrate steadfast commitment to Jesus Christ and His Word through Integrity, Serving, Teamwork, and Excellence.

West Port High School

West Port High School is located on the Southwest side of Ocala. We are blessed to be its business partner. Our support helps students have the clothes, supplies, and other items they need to be successful in the classroom. We also offer periodic help with special projects.

Association of Faith Churches & Ministries

AFCM endeavors to provide support, leadership and spiritual oversight for its member-ministries who are united in their common beliefs and who desire fellowship with other ministers of like-faith and who need ministerial credentials provided by this reputable organization.

Cornerstone Campus Ministry

Arsenio Villard, a Campus Minister at the University of South Florida works in conjunction with Cornerstone Christian Church to evangelize college students during a very crucial time in their lives with the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Mercy Multiplied

Mercy Multiplied’s free-of-charge, voluntary, faith-based residential program serves young women from all socio-economic backgrounds, ages 13-28, who face a combination of life-controlling issues such as eating disorders, self-harm, drug and alcohol addictions, depression and unplanned pregnancy.

Children’s Cup

Children’s Cup’s mission is to bring out the world changer in kids who face a world working against them. The next generation can change their world by living in the hope of Jesus, pursuing His dreams for their lives, and leading others to do the same. CarePoint Programs provide a comprehensive approach to all aspects of the child’s development.

Operation Blessing

Operation Blessing and partners are dedicated to demonstrating God’s love by alleviating human need and suffering in the United States and around the world by providing hunger relief, clean water, disaster relief, and medical care.

God’s Hidden Treasures (Ukraine)

In 1998, the Wheelchair Ministry of God’s Hidden Treasures began as three custom-fitted wheelchairs were taken into the city of Bila Tserkva from the U.S. Since that time, more than 4,000 wheelchairs have been shipped to Ukraine and distributed by God’s Hidden Treasures Ukraine ministry team. In addition to receiving wheelchairs, the families become a part of the Wheelchair Ministry and have regular contact with the Ukrainian ministry team. They also receive provisions of food, medicine and clothing on an “as needed” basis, however, the most important thing they receive is love.

Harvest House (Haiti)

Harvest House Haiti is a nonprofit organization founded and led by Judy Foster, who has been a part of our Meadowbrook family since 1994. The Harvest House Children’s Village is located on the southern coast of Haiti and is a safe-home for special children suffering from debilitating illnesses and devastating circumstances. This ministry provides spiritual and physical support to the area by facilitating medical clinics and basic healthcare training. A multi-faceted ministry, they educate, provide housing, host clinics and offer training is ESL.

Harvest International (India)

Harvest International is a Christian ministry organization acting as a facilitator in assisting Christians who are called of God to meet the physical needs of poor people around the world and empowering them as they earn the right to minister to their spiritual needs. Ray Nelson, of Ocala, has been a missionary to India with Harvest International since 2004. He works closely with the Gospel Fellowship of India helping to encourage local pastors and communities.

Harvesting In Spanish

HIS is an independent, non-profit interdenominational evangelical mission committed to advancing the gospel in El Salvador through literature distribution, health care and the investment in young lives by instilling Christian values and hope for a brighter future.

Servants International

Since 1998, Mathew and Angel Meagher have served as full-time missionaries to India. The Jesus Way International India, which they oversee, is dedicated to ministering and serving the surrounding villages of Secunderabad, India by providing schooling, housing, food, etc. for 170 orphans along with 800 day students. Additionally, they have planted seven Community Development Centers in their local area. Future projects include a building of 70,000 square feet to house 1,000 orphans as well as classrooms for 2,000 students. They believe that efforts to help the children will ultimately be effective in reaching their entire families and the community for the glory of God.

ORPHANetwork (Nicaragua)

Through local church initiatives, ORPHANetwork rescues abandoned and abused children, prevents vulnerable children from becoming abandoned and raises every child up to new life. In their work, they share Christ with everyone.

Ed Funderburk Ministries

Ed and Bethani Funderburk work alongside pastors and churches to help shape their ministries and develop structures necessary for implementing goals and vision for maximum kingdom impact.