the Center for cultural Renewal

 
 

The Vision:

To challenge minds with God’s truth, to brighten hearts with beauty, and to enflame souls with the love of Christ, that the culture will be transformed from within. 


The Mission:

To equip individuals, congregations, and Christ-centered organizations to serve others with compassion, wisdom and excellence.


The Center for Cultural Renewal is a resource for:

  1. BulletIndividuals seeking deeper meaning in life, who are willing to serve others and want to know how.

  2. BulletChurch and civic leaders who want to learn about effective models to transform lives.

  3. BulletPolicy makers, journalists, and analysts who are interested in effective social entrepreneurial solutions to poverty.  

  4. BulletDonors seeking insights on how to invest wisely in effective faith-based organizations. 

Our goals are to:

  1. BulletSpeak and teach, sharing inspiring examples of people living faith and virtue in ways that transform their workplaces, their families, and the culture. 

  2. BulletConnect people of good will to opportunities to serve in and support effective organizations in their community.

  3. BulletPlant and nurture effective models worthy of replication.


News Flash:          The Manhattan Institute Awarded the 2011 Social Entrepreneurship Award to Barbara J. Elliott and Sandy Schultz for the WorkFaith Connection.



To accomplish these goals, we offer services to organizations to help them grow, equip church members for outreach, and offer philanthropic advisory services to donors to assist them in giving wisely. We offer workshops and seminars to leaders of nonprofit organizations to enhance their effectiveness. 

To further the mission, we often work in collaboration with other organizations. 

To serve adults living in poverty, transitioning out of homelessness, prison, or unemployment, we founded the WorkFaith Connection in Houston  Since 2007, the WorkFaith Connection has graduated more than 1450 people, equipping them for the job search and connecting them to more than 450 employers. Our second location opened January 2011.See more here. www.workfaithconnection.org

To help people deepen their faith and discern their vocations, we collaborate with the Catherine of Siena Institute to give seminars and workshops throughout the nation.  Since 1997, the institute has trained more than 100,000 people in making disciples and discerning spiritual gifts.  See more here. www.siena.org

To serve young women in an unplanned pregnancy, we are building a coalition of organizations throughout Houston called the Circle of Life, connecting more than 200 pre0-screened providers that offer everything from pregnancy tests and ultrasounds to a place to live during the pregnancy, counseling, adoption options, medical care, parenting classes, and then after the birth educational opportunities and assistance finding a job.  Website will be up soon!

To serve at-risk children, we have collaborated with Kids Hope USA, which links one church congregation with one public elementary school and one adult with one young child.  We are fostering  mentoring partnerships throughout Houston and beyond.  Founded in 1995, Kids Hope USA now provides more than 10,000 mentors in 29 states, and 350 in Houston.  See more here:  www.kidshopeusa.org

See broadcasts by the founder of the Center for Cultural Renewal, Barbara J. Elliott:

For a broadcast on PBS click here.

For a broadcast on EWTN’s Faith and Culture, click here.

For a broadcast on the Hour of Power from the Crystal Cathedral, click here. 

For Barbara Elliott speaking on Unconditional Love, click here.

See Street Saints: Renewing America’s Cities, (Templeton Foundation Press) 2004.

See Equipping the Saints:  A Guide for Giving to Faith-Based Organizations, (Templeton Foundation Press) 2004.


The Center for Cultural Renewal 

9525 Katy Freeway Suite 303, Houston, TX 77024

Telephone 713.984.0645   Fax 713.984.0409  [email protected]

 

Transforming Individuals and Communities