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hope
Neighbors walking together toward a better community
What is hope house montgomery?
Hope House Montgomery seeks to move kids and youth toward their potential by coming together with community and fun, laughter and conversation, activities and food, personal and communal development, old and young, and love. Love with a capital “L.” Real.Crazy.Love and all in the name of Jesus.
Hope House Montgomery will be a place where humans, kids and adults alike, are known, respected and loved.
About Us
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A registered 501(c)3, Hope House Montgomery was founded by Candace Cain in 2020.
Hope House Montgomery’s home base is in the Highland Park area where we live and serve in the neighborhood. Candace lives at Hope House, along with two college-aged interns.
We desire to be highly relational with our neighbors. We will walk alongside children and youth in intentional ways. Our strategy is to walk together, talk together, play together, and pray together.
Previously, Candace volunteered at Hope House Detroit in Michigan as the after-school reading program director. Here, she witnessed firsthand this ministry’s impact on the neighborhood by seeking to love their neighbors like Jesus.
After moving to Montgomery in 2016, Candace found a faith community that reminded her weekly that we are “sent” people called to be good neighbors. She began praying, dreaming, and imagining a Hope House in Alabama. Continue reading.
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building community
We are trying to follow Jesus. We are living, playing and serving together in order to represent Him but also in order to know Him better. He is not only in us. He is in our community and was here before we ever came. We are looking for Him in the many faces of our neighbor, inside and outside our house. We ask to see Him at work so we can join Him.
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Fostering faith
Hope House isn’t a place. It isn’t a building, a neighborhood, a street or even a ministry. It’s simply God’s real, radical love unleashed in people. Crazy love. God’s people. It is love overflowing into the streets, free, unbounded by walls of doubt and self-imposed limits; unchained from prejudice and intolerance.
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Partner with us in moving kids and youth toward their potential.
Hope House Montgomery is located on Polk Street in the Highland Park neighborhood and looks to partner with local schools to mentor, tutor and encourage the youth who come our way.
Common Questions
We offer a free after-school reading program for grades kindergarten through fifth grade. Registration is on this website under “programs”.
We have an internship/ministry opportunity where interested students or persons can live on site, receive housing & utilities, and a stipend, all while they are mentored to develop their community-building skills.
We host monthly community service opportunities for persons or groups to participate in a community trash pick up throughout our neighborhood.
We offer scholarships to summer camps for kids ages five to eighteen.
Hope House Montgomery is a place to connect, Our reading program seeks to enhance reading skills and to connect with our youth to encourage community responsibility.
We host regular “meet your neighbor” events to become familiar with our community members.
We are open to creative ways to engage our community.
Our reading program is open to Montogmery residents. Summer Camp Scholarship are open to local students and based on funds available.
Our reading program is free.
Our Summer Camp Scholarship Program, if approved, fully funds one week of camp for each student. We generally fund ten students each summer.
We are located in Montgomery, AL at 430 Polk Street, Montgomery, AL 36107. Please contact us to make an appointment to visit.
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