We serve families and individuals in the greater Alliance area: Marlington, Limaville, southern Atwater, Homeworth, and Marlboro areas. Alliance has the highest poverty rate in Stark County. We have the privilege of helping many. Families and individuals come for food and assistance each month. The Alliance of Churches is trying to make a positive difference in many lives in need of help.

The Alliance Pregnancy Center is a pro-life, non-profit organization established to serve women and their families before, during, and after pregnancy. They provide free pregnancy testing, limited OB ultrasounds, STD testing and treatment, childbirth and parenting classes, support groups for moms and for women needing healing from sexual abuse, post-abortion or grief, and material goods including diapers, formula, baby food, and clothing. APC is staffed by caring Christian personnel who are dedicated to sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ, in both word and deed. They endeavor to minister to the whole individual, physically, emotionally, and spiritually.

David served as a pastor and church planter for 17 years before joining the staff of FamilyLife (a ministry of CRU) in 2011 to further follow their passion of helping strengthen marriages and families. They reside in Canal Fulton, Ohio and have been helping to equip and encourage individuals and churches for marriage ministry for the past number of years. David and Laurel have been married since 1998 and have two teenage children, John and Rose. Over the past few years, God has been opening incredible doors for the Derrys to help lead marriage events in prisons. In 2020, David and Laurel officially began doing FamilyLife ministry through the prison ministry of CRU. Inmates, and their spouses, are able to attend an 8-hour marriage event inside of the prison where they receive Biblical training on marriage, and are also presented with the Gospel. Many people have been coming to know Christ through these events, both here in Ohio, as well as in other locations around the country. Please be in prayer for the Derrys and feel free to contact them with any questions at familylifeohio@gmail.com.

The Hartville Migrant Ministry is a non-profit organization established in the Hartville area in the late 1940s when the first migrant workers were brought from Jamaica to work on the fertile muck farms. In 1962, the Ministry was incorporated and formally began assisting seasonal farm workers under the Migrant Health Act of 1962. Presently, 350 men and women come to Hartville with their families to work on the farms. The Hartville Migrant Center is located at the heart of the farmland and operated by the Hartville Migrant Council. The center’s primary role revolves around health services, but also serves as an educational center, library, and religious gathering place for the migrants. Today, migrants come from Mexico, Jamaica, Texas, Florida, South Carolina, Georgia, and Louisiana, and reside in housing provided by local producers from April through October.

Jeff is the Director of the Haven ministries whose purpose is to serve and glorify God through a Christ-Centered outreach of love and compassion that responds to the physical and emotional and spiritual needs of disadvantaged men, women and children, without regard to their race, color, creed and social standing. Haven of Rest’s doors are open 24 hours a day 365 days a year and help is available without charge to any individual. Meals are served to an average of 600 people daily, and 1500 men, women and children are helped monthly through the mission’s clothing ministry at no cost.

Heartfelt Blessings is a program the NBCC Missions Team launched to focus on providing assistance in meeting needs not met by other resources for local families throughout the year. Our goal is to lend a helping hand to struggling families and assist in their goal of becoming self-sufficient.

Kairos is a Greek word from the New Testament for God’s special time. Twice a year, a 40-person team is assembled for a three and a half day weekend in each of 500 prisons across the country. Then a smaller team follows up weekly in each prison. Christ’s love and salvation message is shared. NBCC has supported teams going into Trumbull Correctional Facility, near Warren, OH. You are encouraged to consider joining a team. Donations are always appreciated; make checks payable to NBCC with Kairos noted on the memo line. Volunteers are welcome. Questions and inquiries can be answered by calling.

Men’s Challenge is a Christ-based non-profit organization whose goal is to teach the “unemployable” men how to become employable. The Men’s Challenge seeks to deal with the root causes of poverty by working with men in the greater Stark County area who, for a variety of reasons, do not have a job. Many of these men perceive themselves to be unemployable because they have never worked, they have felonies, or they have been out of the workforce for too long. Men’s Challenge helps men overcome these barriers by providing free classes to show them how to find a job, coaches that help keep them on track, and workshops that can provide the work-related skills necessary to obtain employment.

Chad is involved with the H2O church at Kent State University. Seeing lives transformed by the gospel of Jesus Christ is why H2O exists, and Chad’s mission is collegiate church Great Commission Ministries planting. God uses the unique environment of a college campus to move young people from unbelief and skepticism to passionate faith. He has the privilege of witnessing the lives of young men and women be transformed into the image of Jesus, who then have massive leadership potential and can quickly develop a contagious commitment for influencing others with the gospel. This is the mission field to which Chad has been called to serve. Chad and Eva have 3 young children: Brooklyn, Micah, and Jordan.

Karl Youngblood arranges for a trailer with empty trays to pick up bread at the Akron/Cleveland warehouses. They reload them, bring them to their Hartville warehouse, where church volunteers pick up the bread. Their mission is to reach out to people, knowing that some come to know the Lord just by a simple loaf of bread being provided to someone in need. All work is done by volunteers, and all monies received from churches go to expenses: maintenance, licenses, tires, repairs, gas, fuel, and rentals.

The mission of Sports Outreach Institute is to recruit, train, equip, and deploy committed Christian leaders in the effective use of sports ministry for the purpose of sharing the Gospel and alleviating human suffering. Their coaches initially step on the field with kids, providing sports training, sharing the truth of the Gospel, and building trusting relationships. As relationships develop, they step off the field to go deeper into lives through mentoring—to meet emotional, practical, and spiritual needs through discipleship—and to equip people for the purpose of deploying the next generation of servant leaders.

True North Ministry works with juvenile centers and at-risk kids. (Joel and Susy Becher meet with school-age children on Thursdays if you would like to join.)