Support Partners & Resources
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First Presbyterian seeks to Love One Another and Love Our City well by providing community and support during the hard times in life. We routinely offer on campus support groups and partner with local resources to provide help for wherever you may be hurting.
Life Skills for Living Life Skills for Living provides education and seminars to public/private businesses and corporations, city and county public utilities, schools, civic and church groups. This San Antonio-based service organization also provides online courses, one-on-one training, small group sessions, weekend encounter groups and family intervention, and certification for faith-based anger management facilitators around Texas and the world. AWC Center AWC Center, located in the Kingdom Restoration lab at FPC, is a Christ-Centered ministry that provides a safe environment where women are empowered to make informed decisions regarding total sexual health, including unplanned pregnancy, based on the Truth of Jesus Christ. AWC Center offers pregnancy testing, ultrasounds, STI testing and treatment, and counseling all free of charge to our clients. Chosen Care Chosen Care aims to support children and families through gospel-centered care practices, parent coaching, trauma-informed education, and therapy to ensure families thrive together. Their goal is to keep families together and prevent disruptions in placements. Since 2016, families who have gone through Chosen's programs have experienced zero dissolutions or disruptions. Their vision is to have every child thriving in a family by prioritizing attachment and offering evidence-based case management. FPC L.O.V.E Initiative and GrandFamilies The FPC L.O.V.E. Initiative (Loving Orphans Via Everyone) sprung from a partnership with the South Texas Alliance for Orphans. This is a ministry dedicated to caring for foster families within the FPC congregation and equipping new foster parents. This ministry also seeks to show God’s love, care, and concern through GrandFamilies: grandparents in need as they raise their grandchildren; helping to establish a safe environment through relational, physical, and spiritual support during a time of transition. One by One Ministries One by One offers friendship, hope, support, and parent education to new moms through mentoring. Many moms come to One by One scared, alone, experiencing an unplanned pregnancy, and unsure what to do next. Some moms come to us because they need a friend or someone outside of family to talk to, Whatever her reason, our goal is to provide a lifeline to each mom - to love and support her, providing hope, encouragement, and parent education - from the moment she learns she’s pregnant until her baby turns one. South Texas Alliance for Orphans (Alliance 4 Orphans) Transforming our response to the foster care crisis in San Antonio and surrounding counties. The Alliance helps foster families, adoptive families, kinship families, and caseworkers find the support and resources they need. To contact, call 210-216-6223. Children's Bereavement Center The Children’s Bereavement Center of South Texas is the sole provider in South Texas of grief support programs for children through young adulthood, addressing the grief and loss needs of children from every culture and social circumstance to help them heal and move forward. Our goal is to help children and their caregivers understand the depth of their grief, stabilize and preserve family relationships, and develop healthy coping skills after the death of a loved one. Stephen Ministry at FPC A volunteer caregiver from our Stephen Ministry is assigned to a congregation member who has sought support for such varied needs as ongoing companionship and friendship, prayer when dealing with ill-health, or challenging family relationships such as the death of a loved one or divorce. Stephen Ministers serve on a gender basis, women ministers caring for women, men ministers caring for men. The ministry is confidential – the names of care receivers are never made public, and Stephen Ministers are not charged with solving problems – they listen, they befriend, they support, and they are knowledgeable about resources that may be available to the care receiver. A Stephen Minister normally meets with her or his care receiver once a week. The KRL is located on the first floor at FPC. This is a space in which FPC is strategically partnering with faith based ministries to holistically care for our homeless and under-resourced neighbors. Partnerships with the SA Christian Hope Resource Center, CAM, Haven for Hope, AWC Centers, One by One, Life Restored SA, and YoungLives are providing resources, connections, and care to transform the lives of those who are struggling. It is a collaboration of ministries and services located on the FPC San Antonio campus and available to assist with: How We Can Help KRL Phone: 210-271-2704