Grace Place Properties began in 2011 as a ministry to help participants start a new chapter in their lives and to address the challenges faced by those leaving addictions and/or incarceration. Those primary challenges are:

1) Securing a spiritually healthy place to live,

2) Finding a place to provide accountability and to help them to walk a new path in life, and

3) Finding good job opportunities to work with companies that are willing to give offenders a 2nd chance.

Over the last decade, we have learned through experience what does and does not work in a ministry like this, and each year we work to improve and build on what we learn to more effectively minister to our participants.

If you would like to support this ministry financially, you can send your support in one of several ways:

Via Zelle to our email at jenny@gppinc.org,
By mailing a check to Grace Place Properties, PO BOX 381640, Duncanville, TX 75138-1640, or
By credit card using the link below. (We do incur a 3% processing fee for credit cards, so for larger donations, options 1 and 2 allow GPP to use the full amount, but we know that the convenience of paying via credit card is worth it for many.)

Here's the short version on where the funds will be used. Below this is a more detailed update:

Taking care of our staff who are long overdue for pay increases.
Our apartments are 60 years old. Each year they require tens of thousands of dollars to update and maintain.
Vehicles – We would like to get a pickup for GPP that could be used to help create work opportunities for our participants.
Property Insurance – we are going to be hit with a significantly higher property insurance premium this year,
Loans – GPP currently has debt in two areas: 1) We owe $26,000 on one of our vans, and 2) We owe $124,000 on an SBA loan.
And lastly, to have the necessary operating balance needed for unexpected expenses

If you're interested in a little more detail about the ministry, you can continue reading here...

As with any ministry, this takes funds, both to pay our staff, who are of course absolutely critical to the ministry, as well as the financial needs of our participants as they often come to GPP with minimal resources. God has continued to bless us with the necessary resources and one of the ways we believe that God has blessed this ministry is through our end of year fund raiser. We know that many use December as the time of year to make end of year contributions and we ask that you prayerfully consider how God may be leading you to support this ministry.

Two years ago, we had a matching gift of $35,000 and our supporters matched this amount for a total of $70,000

Last year, our matching gift increased to $70,000 and once again, our donors matched and we raised a combined $140,000.

This year, we have several who have committed generous amount towards our end of year goal, but we don’t have a set amount, so rather than set a specific matching gift amount, we are sharing our fund-raising goal and trusting that once again, God will bless this ministry with the finances necessary to continue serving Him. After discussing our ministry’s needs and opportunities to serve, our fund-raising goal for this year is $250,000.

Historically, our end of year fund raising has provided 44% of our annual giving, and 25% of our total revenues. Our participants provide 47% of the funding for the ministry through their participation fees; we want those that support the ministry to know that our participants have “skin in the game” and are also an important part of funding the ministry.

Here is an overview of how these funds would be used:

Our top priority this year is addressing the salary of our staff, which has gone without a salary increase for three years, and we want to correct this, as well as to make up for our delay in increasing their pay. As a board, we approved a 4% pay increase to start in January of 2023, however, the staff elected to hold off on receiving the increase until the end of the year because they wanted to make sure that the other needs of the ministry were met first. That says a lot about our staff, and where their heart is, but we also want to be faithful to our staff as a board and to make sure that we take care of them as well.

Our apartments - they are 60 years old, and every year it requires tens of thousands of dollars to update, repair, and/or replace the expected and unexpected work that needs to be done to maintain the property.

Vehicles – these are important for getting our participants to jobs and to church services. We would like to get a pickup for GPP that could be used to help create work opportunities for our participants.

Property Insurance – like everyone else, we know that we are going to be hit with a significantly higher property insurance premium this year, and these funds will help us to cover that additional expense.

Loans – GPP currently has debt in two areas: 1) We owe approximately $26,000 at a 7% interest rate on one of our vans, and 2) We owe $124,000 on an SBA loan at a very reasonable rate of 3%. We believe God provided this loan opportunity as it has relieved us of the stress of meeting our financial requirements. With that said, our preference would be to have a ministry that is more financially stable and able to operate without loans.

And lastly, to be financially responsible, it is helpful to have the necessary operating balance needed for unexpected expenses, so any additional funds after the above expenses are covered would help us to provide for future needs.

We continue to trust that God will work through our supporters to provide this ministry with the funds necessary to help those who are attempting to chart a new path of discipleship.

https://graceplaceproperties.org/

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