Gulfton and Sharpstown are the most diverse neighborhoods in the most diverse city in the country. However, due to years of disinvestment, this largely immigrant and refugee neighborhood has become an area of concentrated poverty. Ever since St. Luke’s merged with Gethsemane UMC in 2009, we have sought to be an epicenter of hope in the community. St. Luke’s will build a Community Center on our Gethsemane Campus providing operating spaces for these partnerships and programs.
Our Partners and Programs
Legacy Community Healthcare identifies unmet needs and gaps in health services developing client-centered programs to address those needs. Legacy will open a healthcare clinic for uninsured and under-insured neighbors with a focus on teens and young adults.
Houston reVision, the ministry working to break the cycle of isolation among the most profoundly disconnected at-risk youth, will have meeting and office space and will share the gym and recreational areas with Gethsemane youth.
PX Project, the new 501c3 workforce development program launched by St. Luke’s, will base its operation out of the commercial kitchen, cafe and classrooms.
Gethsemane Youth Ministry will have a dedicated worship space designed especially for youth.
Connect Community, the social services networking organization focused on the Gulfton/Sharpstown area, will have its headquarters in the community center.
The Community Center is more than a place for our students. The center will also house Legacy Health Care, Houston reVision, a commercial kitchen and training center for PX Project, and headquarters for Connect Community. Each of these ministries already has a successful track record. I’m so proud of our capital campaign. It’s smart. We’re taking what we know and teaming up with people who know even more. Great things will result.
– Martha Jamison, Campaign Co-Chair
1st Floor Plans
2nd Floor Plans
PX Project Preview
Gethsemane Youth Preview
Gym Preview
Meeting Room Preview
A Place to Call Their Own
When our Westheimer youth building opened in 2017, Student Ministries changed.
Everything went deeper. Relationships, worship, study, and commitment went deeper because the students now had a place where they could worship, play, study, and take care of each other.
Most of our students on the Westheimer campus are not lacking spaces and things of their own. They have their own rooms. Most have or will get their own cars. Technology is a given. Even so, St. Luke’s Student Ministries went from good to great with the new building, because the students now had their own place and identity on the church campus.
Imagine what will happen with the Gethsemane Student Ministry when the new Community Center is built. Gethsemane kids may not have their own bedrooms; they probably won’t be given their own cars. A place of their own in the new building will be life-changing. We, as a congregation, will be telling them: “We think you are worthy. We want to invest in you. We believe in you. We want you to have a place to worship, play, study, and take care of each other.” Amazing changes will follow. I know. I’ve seen it happen.
– Bruce Jamison, Campaign Co-Chair
The dream has always been that Gethsemane is where ‘hope has an address.’ While our kids will want to come to this cool worship space designed for them on Sundays, imagine what we can offer all week. This will be the hang-out spot; a safe place to meet friends, play sports, do homework, be tutored, and mentored. We want to be the heart of the community where youth experience the love of God in all things.
—Keenen Brinson, Youth Ministries Coordinator
Transformed Projects
Gulfton and Sharpstown are the most diverse neighborhoods in the most diverse city in the country. However, due to years of disinvestment, this largely immigrant and refugee neighborhood has become an area of concentrated poverty. Ever since St. Luke’s merged with Gethsemane UMC in 2009, we have sought to be an epicenter of hope in the community. St. Luke’s will build a Community Center on our Gethsemane Campus providing operating spaces for these partnerships and programs.
Our Partners and Programs
Legacy Community Healthcare identifies unmet needs and gaps in health services developing client-centered programs to address those needs. Legacy will open a healthcare clinic for uninsured and under-insured neighbors with a focus on teens and young adults.
Houston reVision, the ministry working to break the cycle of isolation among the most profoundly disconnected at-risk youth, will have meeting and office space and will share the gym and recreational areas with Gethsemane youth.
PX Project, the new 501c3 workforce development program launched by St. Luke’s, will base its operation out of the commercial kitchen, cafe and classrooms.
Gethsemane Youth Ministry will have a dedicated worship space designed especially for youth.
Connect Community, the social services networking organization focused on the Gulfton/Sharpstown area, will have its headquarters in the community center.
The Community Center is more than a place for our students. The center will also house Legacy Health Care, Houston reVision, a commercial kitchen and training center for PX Project, and headquarters for Connect Community. Each of these ministries already has a successful track record. I’m so proud of our capital campaign. It’s smart. We’re taking what we know and teaming up with people who know even more. Great things will result.
– Martha Jamison, Campaign Co-Chair
1st Floor Plans
2nd Floor Plans
PX Project Preview
Gethsemane Youth Preview
Gym Preview
Meeting Room Preview
A Place to Call Their Own
When our Westheimer youth building opened in 2017, Student Ministries changed.
Everything went deeper. Relationships, worship, study, and commitment went deeper because the students now had a place where they could worship, play, study, and take care of each other.
Most of our students on the Westheimer campus are not lacking spaces and things of their own. They have their own rooms. Most have or will get their own cars. Technology is a given. Even so, St. Luke’s Student Ministries went from good to great with the new building, because the students now had their own place and identity on the church campus.
Imagine what will happen with the Gethsemane Student Ministry when the new Community Center is built. Gethsemane kids may not have their own bedrooms; they probably won’t be given their own cars. A place of their own in the new building will be life-changing. We, as a congregation, will be telling them: “We think you are worthy. We want to invest in you. We believe in you. We want you to have a place to worship, play, study, and take care of each other.” Amazing changes will follow. I know. I’ve seen it happen.
– Bruce Jamison, Campaign Co-Chair
The dream has always been that Gethsemane is where ‘hope has an address.’ While our kids will want to come to this cool worship space designed for them on Sundays, imagine what we can offer all week. This will be the hang-out spot; a safe place to meet friends, play sports, do homework, be tutored, and mentored. We want to be the heart of the community where youth experience the love of God in all things.
—Keenen Brinson, Youth Ministries Coordinator
Transformed Projects
Gulfton and Sharpstown are the most diverse neighborhoods in the most diverse city in the country. However, due to years of disinvestment, this largely immigrant and refugee neighborhood has become an area of concentrated poverty. Ever since St. Luke’s merged with Gethsemane UMC in 2009, we have sought to be an epicenter of hope in the community. St. Luke’s will build a Community Center on our Gethsemane Campus providing operating spaces for these partnerships and programs.
Our Partners and Programs
Legacy Community Healthcare identifies unmet needs and gaps in health services developing client-centered programs to address those needs. Legacy will open a healthcare clinic for uninsured and under-insured neighbors with a focus on teens and young adults.
Houston reVision, the ministry working to break the cycle of isolation among the most profoundly disconnected at-risk youth, will have meeting and office space and will share the gym and recreational areas with Gethsemane youth.
PX Project, the new 501c3 workforce development program launched by St. Luke’s, will base its operation out of the commercial kitchen, cafe and classrooms.
Gethsemane Youth Ministry will have a dedicated worship space designed especially for youth.
Connect Community, the social services networking organization focused on the Gulfton/Sharpstown area, will have its headquarters in the community center.
The Community Center is more than a place for our students. The center will also house Legacy Health Care, Houston reVision, a commercial kitchen and training center for PX Project, and headquarters for Connect Community. Each of these ministries already has a successful track record. I’m so proud of our capital campaign. It’s smart. We’re taking what we know and teaming up with people who know even more. Great things will result.
– Martha Jamison, Campaign Co-Chair
1st Floor Plans
2nd Floor Plans
PX Project Preview
Gethsemane Youth Preview
Gym Preview
Meeting Room Preview
A Place to Call Their Own
When our Westheimer youth building opened in 2017, Student Ministries changed.
Everything went deeper. Relationships, worship, study, and commitment went deeper because the students now had a place where they could worship, play, study, and take care of each other.
Most of our students on the Westheimer campus are not lacking spaces and things of their own. They have their own rooms. Most have or will get their own cars. Technology is a given. Even so, St. Luke’s Student Ministries went from good to great with the new building, because the students now had their own place and identity on the church campus.
Imagine what will happen with the Gethsemane Student Ministry when the new Community Center is built. Gethsemane kids may not have their own bedrooms; they probably won’t be given their own cars. A place of their own in the new building will be life-changing. We, as a congregation, will be telling them: “We think you are worthy. We want to invest in you. We believe in you. We want you to have a place to worship, play, study, and take care of each other.” Amazing changes will follow. I know. I’ve seen it happen.
– Bruce Jamison, Campaign Co-Chair
The dream has always been that Gethsemane is where ‘hope has an address.’ While our kids will want to come to this cool worship space designed for them on Sundays, imagine what we can offer all week. This will be the hang-out spot; a safe place to meet friends, play sports, do homework, be tutored, and mentored. We want to be the heart of the community where youth experience the love of God in all things.
—Keenen Brinson, Youth Ministries Coordinator
Transformed Projects
