Oak Lawn Community Outreach Center and Social Media Outreach Awareness Promoted by Rostin Ventures

Dallas Homeless and Low-Income Assistance Gives More than a Step Up

Although its building is made of brick and mortar, it’s easy to imagine a gigantic pair of arms extending from the Oak Lawn Community Outreach Center.

Located at 3014 Oak Lawn Avenue in Dallas, Oak Lawn Community Outreach Center ministers not only to the homeless but also to the middle class poor who are too rich for assistance, too poor to live.

The Oak Lawn Community Outreach Center successfully balances the dignity of individuals in need while seeking to improve their welfare, health and safety with a variety of positive programs that blend together beautifully within the outreach to help others:

• The Community Clothes Closet gathers and distributes hygiene products and gently used clothing for men, women and children in need.
• Gayle’s Kitchen Angels extends the invitation for homeless individuals to receive a home-cooked meal every Sunday evening. The dinners are prepared in the adjacent First United Methodist Church’s kitchen, and served in the Community Center’s main room.
• While the homeless, or family households in financial need receive food supplies from the OLCOC Pantry, the Baxter’s Buddies helps their furry friends on leashes receive pet food and water.
• The Oak Lawn Community Outreach Center’s Financial Assistance program helps with financial literacy in the form of funds for rent, utilities, mortgages, bus passes, and other monetary assistance.
• A Season of Seeds is Oak Lawn Community Outreach Center’s newest project, set for completion at the end of 2011. A Season of Seeds will help contribute fresh, nutritious vegetables for a number of other ministries in Dallas that help with groceries for homeless and low-income families, as well as provide the Center’s feeding program for the homeless.  Local students will also benefit from A Season of Seeds’ living laboratory in the solar-powered greenhouse that is part of the project.

Julie Ross, president of Rostin Ventures in Dallas, echoes the sentiment of other supporters when she says, “One of the many reasons we enjoy the opportunity to support Oak Lawn Community Outreach Center through Social Media Outreach is that we can see firsthand how their loving assistance is impacting lives right here in Dallas.”

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