To lead underprivileged children and teenagers to a personal relationship with Jesus Christ through offering free afterschool and summer time services, activities and programs which will lead them in becoming successful, contributing citizens of their communities and God's Kingdom.
Teach children how they should live, and they will remember it all their life.
Proverbs 22:6
Now what I am commanding you today is not too difficult or beyond your reach... See I set before you today life and death. For I command you to love the Lord your God to walk in his ways and keep his commandments, then you will live.
Deuteronomy 30:11-15
"I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me."
John 14:6
Friendship House will turn no child away and is striving to serve every underprivileged and at-risk child and teenager that resides in Decatur County. Program participants range from 4-17 years of age.
Founder, Jane Forsyth, started the mission in 1991 as a small Bible club for children. The group met in a small community room on the side of a low-income housing development. Due to the popularity and positive potential of the single room Bible club, it had to venture for a bigger establishment. After moving locations 4 different times, in 1996 the Friendship House was established in an old house across the street from the Hutto McIver housing projects. The small one room Bible club, with an attendance of 20 youth, has exploded into a 5 facility establishment with a population, at times, reaching over 200 participants per day. This safe house for children and teenagers has won the approval of the community and continues to bring positive results each growing year.
