"We believe that every child has the right to hear the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and to see that Gospel demonstrated in the life of at least one, sincere, born-again believer." The Children's Activity Center, a part of Walking Faith Ministry, is a faith based inner-city children’s ministry modeled after Metro Ministries of New York City. The Children’s Activity Center’s main focus is to target at-risk kids in Houston’s toughest neighborhoods and reach them immediately and urgently with the life changing message of Jesus Christ. Through various methods, including busing (Children’s Activity Center) and the use of colorful fourteen-foot storage trucks that convert into portable stages (Children’s Activity Truck), we bring weekly presentations of the gospel right to the very doorstep of the children who so desperately need it; using the media arts, drama, puppetry, powerful object lessons and preaching . Each week staff and volunteers visit the homes of attending children, announcing weekly events and building valuable personal relationships with family members. These visitation captains also identify the current needs of the people that can be met in a timely fashion; both spiritual and physical .
The Children’s Activity Center and Children’s Activity Truck, under the administration of Walking Faith Ministry has emerged as a prominant force helping Houston’s inner-city children in ten different locations city-wide. Through a combination of staff, interns and volunteers a steady stream of 1,500 kids a week are being lifted, helped and healed through this life changing ministry. Also, powerful partnerships are being formed with other groups to model and replicate this dynamic ministry in other cities which to date include Portland, Oregon and Toledo, Ohio.
History Pastor David Ellis founded The Children’s Activity Center in March of 1996. Upon graduation from Bible College David traveled throughout the United States and Haiti helping the poor. In 1994 he incorporated Walking Faith Ministry as a non-profit organization. Arriving in Houston, he became aware that very little was being done to reach the young people with the liberating light of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Having heard of one man’s successful ministry with ghetto children in New York, and feeling the need to help the children of Houston’s highest crime area, Gulfton, he held a youth meeting on an abandoned parking lot. Thus, in 1996 the Children’s Activity Center was born and prospered until his death in 2002
Since Pastor Dave’s death in 2002 the Children’s Activity Center, under the direction of Pastor Scott Binkley, has grown from two meetings a week to ten city-wide, with a staff of 20 full and part-time workers. Through the Spirit of God and dependence on the Lord Jesus Christ, the Children’s Activity Center has retained the founder’s original fire and vision for the lost and dying kids of the city, while building on the original vision model. Today, through prayer and a desire to reach more inner-city kids, a vision is being formatted to reach one million more kids in ten years through internships, partnerships, training, arts, theater, mass media television and internet productions and a dynamic ministry training school.
Purpose Our purpose is to reach children with the truth of the Gospel before the world and other destructive influences have an opportunity to establish negative and spiritually damning strongholds in their minds that are contrary to the will of God for their lives. It is to rise up a Godly standard and positive vision for their lives that will combat and tear down destructive influences that threaten their lives on a daily basis. In doing so, we have committed our entire God-given resources of time, talent, income, planning, equipment and totality of our lives to reach these kids and their families to give them hope beyond the lives they are currently living.
Mission Walking Faith Ministry (WFM) was founded to obey and carry out the Lord’s command and great commission in Matthew 28:19-20 “Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even to the end of the world.” This commitment will be implemented upon the foundation of Jesus Christ utilizing the Metro Ministry model to reach at-risk inner-city youth and children, first in the City of Houston, secondly to our nation and then beyond, into the utter most parts of the earth.
Statement of Faith 1. we believe in one God- Father, Son and Holy Spirit, Creator of all things 2. we believe that the Lord Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God, was conceived of the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, was crucified, died, was buried, was resurrected, ascended into heaven, and is now seated at the right hand of God the Father and is true God and true man.
3. we believe the Bible in its entirety to be the inspired Word of God and the infallible rule of faith and conduct.
4. we believe in the resurrection of the dead, the eternal happiness of the saved, and the eternal punishment of the lost.
5. we believe in personal salvation of believers through the shed blood of Jesus Christ.
6. we believe in sanctification through the Word of God and by the Holy Spirit, and we believe in personal holiness, purity of heart and life.
7. we believe in divine healing, through faith in the Name of Jesus Christ, and that healing is included in the Redemption.
8. we believe in water baptism, in the Baptism in the Holy Spirit as distinct from the New Birth, in speaking with tongues as the Spirit of God gives utterance (Acts 2:4), in the gifts of the Spirit, and the evidence of the fruit of the Spirit. We believe that all of these are available to believers.
9. we believe in the Christian's hope- the soon-coming, personal return of the Lord Jesus Christ. |
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