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The mission of the Fort Worth HOPE Center is to fight hunger and feed hope by meeting peoples’
immediate nutrition needs while also helping as many as possible to become self-sufficient.
In the spring of 2002, a Tornado hit East Fort Worth causing many people to lose their homes and to be without electricity for several weeks. The Without Walls Church was located near the tornado-devastated community, and they opened their facility to become a command post to serve the
community. They organized over 50 restaurants to cater hot meals to the church, which fed people in the community for over two weeks. As they worked with the people, Pastors Orlando and JoAnn Reyes realized that many people didn’t have enough food to feed their families continually
even after the tornado crisis was over. As a result, in 2004, they founded the Fort Worth HOPE Center, a 501c3 nonprofit, to provide food for the hungry in the community. Recognizing that many beneficiaries of the food program lacked job skills, in 2007 the School of HOPE was opened in the same facility to provide vocational training for those in need.
Over the last eighteen years, the Fort Worth Hope Center has grown into a full-fledged food
bank while continuing to serve as a food pantry for local citizens. The Fort Worth Hope Center
currently provides a drive-through food pantry twice per week. The food bank operation provides food to over 30 other organizations. The School of Hope has expanded to
include training on six different types of common warehouse material handling machines and
offers the MSSC Certified Logistics Associate and Certified Logistics Technician certificate
training.
People served include people in poverty, vulnerable populations, and the homeless. Tarrant County, where the Fort Worth Hope Center is located, has an overall food insecurity rate of 13.9%, but the incidence is much higher in the immediate area, as the zip code where the Hope Center is located has a poverty rate over 26%. The Fort Worth Hope Center’s services are available to everyone in need, and we do not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, color, sex, religion, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, sexual orientation, disability, marital status, veteran status or other factors that are protected by law.
The Fort Worth Hope Center and the School of Hope have become a significant source of
support and hope for low-income people in the Fort Worth area.