Information

Established: 1987
Incorporated as a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization:  1991
Federal Tax ID Number:  58-1996497

Executive Director:  Rex Blankenship
President:  Joe Blankenship

REQUEST FOR CHARITABLE GIFT/GRANT FOR THE ONE HOPE CENTER IN TULSA, OKLAHOMA

Mission Statement:

Vision of Righteousness Ministries (AKA:  Vision Ministries,  One Hope Ministry, Project 61, Springs of Grace Preacher School, and Springs of Grace International Missions) is committed to the ministry of spreading the life and love of the Lord Jesus Christ and His message of salvation to individuals from the Neighborhood to the Nations.  The Ministry was primarily established to train, send, and support preachers and missionaries. 

The theological and practical training is combined with benevolent ministries in inner-city settings.  We are committed to an “inside-out” service approach, rather than the “outside-in” band-aid attempts at solving some of the basic problems of our culture and our world.  We have intentionally targeted areas that most clearly manifest the prevailing spiritual and social ills that exist in all levels of our society from the poorest to the richest and all geographical locations from the urban to the suburban to the resort vacation spots. The driving force of this cancer is the love of self to the detriment of others and the exclusion of  true love for God that manifests itself in sincere love for others.  This contributes to the more visible problems of family disintegration, drug-addiction, educational drop-outs, crime, sexually transmitted diseases, and abuse. 

We believe that changing the heart can only be done by the Lord Jesus Christ.  It is contact with His life and love through His people that provides the only hope of making any lasting change in the lives of the hopeless and brokenhearted.

Current Ministries:

Officers:

Executive Director:  Rex Blankenship (Rex graduated from Harvard University and has attended the university of Tulsa Law School and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.  He has pastored churches in Oklahoma and is presently serving in his eighteenth year as the senior pastor of Springs of Grace Baptist Church in Shreveport, Louisiana.)

President:  Joe Blankenship (Joe is a graduate of the University of Tulsa and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.  He has pastored churches in Texas and is presently serving in his seventh year as the co-pastor of Springs of Grace Bible Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma.)

An Overview of Ministries:

Project History:

For the last 18 years in Shreveport, Louisiana, and the past seven years in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Vision of Righteousness Ministries has operated intern training and benevolence programs from the neighborhood to the nations.  Most of the ministries operated under the umbrella of and in conjunction with the Springs of Grace Baptist Church in Shreveport, Louisiana  The Executive Director and the President volunteered their time to the preacher school and the practical training in the benevolent ministries.  The interns and volunteers from the church provided personal development, tutoring, sports clinics, recreational activities, and Bible studies for the youth, adults, and the elderly, as well as serving as role models and mentors. 

Most of the participants come from single family homes where there is no father figure.  Some of those live with a single parent addicted to drugs.  Some are active gang participants.  At risk, low-income Afro-American youth from Shreveport’s Sunset Acres, Cedar Grove, Hollywood, Caddo Heights, and Mooretown neighborhoods along with at-risk, low-income Afro-American and Hispanic youth from Tulsa’s Mohawk and North Tulsa neighborhoods as well as the Comanche and Apache Park Federal Housing Projects have been successfully targeted.

In that time, over two thousand have participated in the summer programs, over one thousand youth in the on-going Monday-Night Club (sixty/week), over two hundred in each of the three years for the Sports Clinic at the federal housing project, over one hundred each year to summer youth camps, an average of twenty per week in school tutoring, and thirty-five to forty summer interns, and nearly twenty have graduated from the preacher training school who are now in full-time ministry.

Project Summary:

So that the local Springs of Grace Churches can continue the existing ministries, Vision of Righteousness Ministries intends to clearly distinguish and support the expanding opportunities in:

(1) Future neighborhood ministries (such as free legal services, free physical rehabilitation for the homeless or uninsured, free tutoring and athletic skills enhancement),

(2) The development of a permanent preacher and intern training school in Tulsa (interns serving in the summer programs are presently awarded academic credit by The Master’s College of Santa Clarita, California),

(3) The support for international missions training and benevolent ministries (medical clinic among the Mixe Indians in Mexico, training of pastors in Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan, support of orphan ministries in China and Moldova).

Specifically, this expansion would include:

  1. The purchase and renovation of the One Hope Center--a preacher training/community ministry complex in Tulsa, Oklahoma,
  2. Hiring a part-time director over the daily operations of the school and center
  3. Part-time teacher salaries,
  4. Intern salaries and housing,
  5. Enhancement of the tutoring services and sports clinics
  6. Additional benevolent funds and services for the at-risk and low-income

 

This expansion will need to be funded through charitable gifts and/or grants to Vision of Righteousness Ministries, Inc.

 

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