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Braking the Cycle of Poverty... Building a Cycle of Hope

About Us Neighborhood Ministries Church in Phoenix, AZ

A Community in Mission

Neighborhood Ministries is more than a nonprofit. We are a people sent by love—rooted in faith, shaped by hope, and sustained by grace. Since 1982, we’ve stood alongside children, youth, and families in urban Phoenix, nurturing lives, forming leaders, and building a beloved community in the places where love is needed most.

We are still the Neighborhood. Still gathering. Still growing. Still loving the people God gives us.

Our Mission

Is to be the presence of Jesus Christ, sharing his life-transforming hope, love, and power among distressed families of urban Phoenix to ignite their passion for God and His Kingdom.

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Where Love Becomes Action

We don’t simply provide programs. We stay close—building relationships that endure and refusing the easy distance of “helping from afar.” In that shared life, hope becomes concrete. Our work follows the movements of real transformation in our community:

From Fear to Freedom

We create safe, welcoming spaces where children and families can breathe, belong, and begin again—moving from survival into stability, trust, and hope.

From Rivalry to Peace

We nurture restoration and reconciliation—helping neighbors practice empathy, resolve conflict, and strengthen relationships that hold a community together.

From Scarcity to Enough

We meet immediate needs while building long-term stability—so families have support today and a pathway toward a more secure tomorrow.

From Potential to Purpose

We equip youth and adults with skills, confidence, and leadership—so they can pursue education, meaningful work, and become people who lift others with them.

Spiritual formation isn’t a separate compartment—it’s the heart that animates everything. As we learn to desire what is life-giving rather than rivalrous, and to live in the freedom Jesus gives, that inner transformation takes tangible shape in every impact area—day by day, in real acts of love.

How Change Happens

We believe transformation is not a quick fix—it’s a long obedience in the same direction. It happens when:

Belonging comes first
Trust is built through consistent presence
Empathy is practiced, not just preached
Faith is formed in community, not imposed
Young people are protagonists, not projects, and
Everyone—including our staff, volunteers, and donors—is growing too

Come Belong With Us

This is a place where kids are known by name. Where families find community.

Where donors become partners. Where faith is lived in everyday acts of justice, healing, and joy.

Whether you are new to the story or have been with us for decades, we invite you to walk alongside us.

Welcome to the Neighborhood.

Core Values

We are called to INCARNATIONAL LOVE

The fact that God so loved the world that he entered into our reality allows us to follow him by standing with the poor and vulnerable on the ground in under-resourced communities, ministering with, not to or for, committed to an inside-out approach, not relying on an outside-in perspective.

We are Called to the WORK OF RECONCILIATION

The breadth of reconciliation begins with God’s saving work through Jesus Christ then expressed in our commitment to radically loving all people. The work of reconciliation, therefore, is to see our diverse community find a way back to one another, rich and poor, black, white and Hispanic, gang to gang, suburban and urban, Catholic and Protestant, Pentecostal to Baptist, young and old.

We are Called to HOLISTIC MINISTRY

As Jesus did, we address the needs of the whole person, spiritual, physical, emotional, economic, psychological, educational and relational. Our programs and our church live out this focus with children, youth and adults, birth to grave and multi- generational.

We are Called to BE THE CHURCH & SUPPORT THE CHURCH

The church is families and individuals coming together as the new community that Jesus ushered in as an expression of his kingdom. When the church as the body of Christ is a prophetic voice in a community advocating for and expressing love for change and transformation, God’s “shalom” can be expressed in that local community. We value the local church because of what it represents in that location: compassion, solidarity, spiritual and physical transformation, hope and the activity of the life of Christ.

We are Called to LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT

We value all leadership and believe that the best solutions to our community’s problems are generated from with the community by local, indigenous leaders, those affected, owning and responding to the pain of injustice, oppression and poverty. We recognize our role in developing future leaders for the church, for institutional, non-profit, political and marketplace leadership.

We are Called to the WORK OF JUSTICE

Justice is consistent with the heart of God, leading to righteousness, the expression of God’s love in society. Injustice is an affront to God and demands we press for a just social order. We believe that the Bible calls us to a preferential love for the poor and to pursue a lifestyle and stewardship consistent with justice.

We Value LEARNING

Committed to “entering into” our community, we continually discover what we don’t know and what we desire to learn. We are committed to remaining in a posture of learning, being among, not standing over, acknowledging change and transformation are a process and not often easily measured.

We Value RELATIONSHIPS

We hold to the model that the best transference of love, hope and power is through relationships. The unconditional love of God compels us to a relentless pursuit of one another, where we chose to bear the pain each one carries as well as bring the good news of that unconditional love, practically and verbally.

We Value COMMUNITY

Community as we know it has two parts, the first is best expressed as diverse people who work together for the common good, caring for the sacred space that is their God appointed neighborhood. Community is also expressed as the solidarity that members experience with one another as they seek to serve, advocate and align themselves with each other in their communal space.

We Value PARTNERSHIPS

We acknowledge that the complex work of Christian Community Development cannot be done single-handedly. We enter into and create partnerships and collaborations with individuals, businesses, non-profits, churches, para-churches, social service entities, government, education … all of whom have an interest as we do in seeing forgotten communities reimagined and restored.

Our History

Kit Danley founded Neighborhood Ministries in 1982 and remains the President of the organization today. Kit’s passion to bring authentic change and renewal to the urban community led her and her husband, Wayne, to live in the city and raise their two children there. She has become a champion of the people we serve.

Because of the commitment by the Danleys and others to live in and serve the urban community, we have built a culture of trust in the city, laying the foundation for the positive, enduring work that has now spanned three decades.

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