One Hope Press Release

PRESS RELEASE:

One Hope Ministry is excited to announce its “Spread the Hope” weekend coming Friday and Saturday, August 1st through 2nd. One Hope is a nonprofit organization with a vision for reaching inner city Tulsa.

This vision includes building a One Hope Center where the people of Tulsa and their children can come for tutoring, sports clinics, recreational sports teams, counseling, medical clinics, physical therapy, and other programs. This facility would also house a charter school providing individualized teaching and mentoring for at-risk children.

The goal of One Hope is to use the hope-giving and life-changing message of Jesus Christ to combat the cycles of racism, prejudice, abuse, violence, and poverty that exist in the inner city of Tulsa, and to train college-aged men and women to replicate the One Hope model in other urban areas.

One Hope intentionally targets inner-city, at-risk, and disadvantaged children, single-parent families, and youth at risk for dropping out of school or becoming involved in gang activity through getAHEAD, a tutoring and mentoring program, sports camps and clinics, Rise And Dream, an inspirational vocational program, and GirlTalk, a program addressing issues facing high school girls. We hope to be able to expand these programs and extend our influence by building the One Hope Center.

We know that there are a lot of good things for people to give their money to. That’s why we’re just asking for one dollar. We believe if one million people gave one dollar each, we could open the One Hope Center in Tulsa, OK.

On Saturday, August 2nd, we will be spreading the vision of the One Hope Center by setting up informational and donation booths throughout the city of Tulsa. Some of the local coaches and athletes who serve as volunteer staff at our sports clinics, along with our full-time college-aged intern staff, will be manning these booths from 10 am to 6 pm that day. This will be followed at 7 pm by the One Hope Celebration at our current location, Springs of Grace Bible Church (7123 E. 7th Street, Tulsa, OK 74112). Additional information about the programs and the vision will be available at this time. This is an opportunity for those who would like to ask questions of the One Hope staff or to meet some of the kids involved in our programs who will be there celebrating with us.

Additional information can be found on our website at www.onehopeministry.org or by contacting Joe Blankenship at 918-760-0089 or b2Himglory@gmail.com.