Center of Hope Victory Ministries

The Center of Hope, the location of Victory Ministries in Whitehall, Ohio, is designed to be a place where individuals and families in need really do find hope. Though we opened our doors to the Center of Hope to the public in 2016, Victory Ministries has been serving Central Ohio since 1983. Beginning the ministry with food handed out to people from trunks of cars, today we have branched out to providing many services to needy families. Monthly, in our choice pantry, we provide groceries, including produce, meat, bakery and dairy for a minimum of three days of meals to over 450 families in 75 zip codes in Central Ohio. But that is just the beginning. Monthly, we partner with 8 different mental health agencies providing food boxes and personal care items for over 200 individuals in the Columbus metropolitan area. Through a relationship with some other organizations, we have been blessed to receive donations of dog & cat food regularly as well as diapers of various sizes for our needy families. For the month of December, we provide a large basket of food with additional produce and meat for over 1100 families and a free toy shop for every child in their family. We offer clothes in a well-stocked clothing boutique that includes school uniforms and backpacks for children before school starts. Recently we have expanded our program to a bimonthly outreach as a mobile market to an area of the city that is underserved. We have been averaging over 60 families helped each time at the mobile site. Through a team of volunteers, we provide monthly home delivery from our pantry for over 35 elderly/disabled individuals in our community. Clinical Christian based counseling has been offered on a sliding scale fee basis for many of our neighbors for more than 15 years. Presently we have a monthly women's health clinic and we have a monthly vision clinic with complete optometric equipment on site. For many years we have had a weekly Reading Buddies ministry with a local elementary school, helping struggling children with learning how to read. We offer monthly cooking classes providing recipes that utilize products and foods available in our pantry. A weekly women's Bible study through BSF International meets here at the COH. Our venture capital program to provide training and jobs for people to flip houses is awaiting an opportunity for a property to become available. All of our ministries under the umbrella of Victory Ministries are covered and supported by prayer and the willing participation of hundreds of volunteers and the financial support of many churches, organizations, companies and individuals who believe in what we are doing. Over a dozen grocery stores and retail operations and the local food cooperative provide over a million dollars of gifts in kind in the form of reclaimed foods, produce, meats and dairy products for our needy families we call our neighbors! We are totally dependent upon the Lord Jesus Christ for all of our needs financially, for hundreds of volunteers that make our ministry possible and for the resources we provide. God has been so good to this ministry for 41 years! All praise goes to Him!