Hope Center

Mission: Putting God's love into action by enhancing dignity and hope as we build bridges out of poverty.

The HOPE Center is a faith and relationship-based drop-in, day center for individuals and families who are living in poverty and without homes.  We are a unique and crucial service in the Rapid City community.

This means that we are a safe haven for our guests during the day so they can avoid risky of vulnerable situations while they work toward a life outside of poverty.  Our guests utilize our many crucial and unduplicated services to make positive changes in their lives.

A primary objective of the HOPE Center is to establish relationships so we may be recognized as a trusted source of support to our guests and the community.  Out of these relationships, built on trust, we are able to offer lifestyle alternatives and a way out of poverty.  We do this daily by providing advocacy services and appropriate referrals to partner agencies in the Rapid City area.

The HOPE Center is a faith and relationship-based project started by the First United Methodist Church of Rapid City in 2011.  We obtained our own 501(c)3 status in 2014.