Community Involvement

Mission Kenya

Aboite has partnered with Hope for the Destitute to sponsor 51 HIV/AIDS orphaned children in Kisumu, Kenya so they may attend school. We organize mission trips to visit with the orphans every few years. If you would like more information about sponsoring an orphan, contact Rick Imel: rimel2@msn.com

Love Church Collection Center

Love Church is an intercity ministry that reaches out to the poor in Fort Wayne. We accept food and clothing donations on their behalf in the vestibule at the west entrance.

Magazines for Patients at Lutheran Hospital

Aboite has facilitated a ministry to the patients at Lutheran Hospital for many years. Marian Hague and her dedicated volunteers process donations of used magazines and then distribute them to the patients. Donate your used magazines in the vestibule at the west entrance.

Habitat for Humanity Can Collection

Support the Habitat for Humanity mission by donating your empty aluminum cans to the collection shed at the south end of the parking lot. Aboite also participates in Habitat for Humanity builds yearly.

Cross Connections

Cross Connections is a counseling and training center that provides affordable Christ-centered professional counseling and equips lay counselors, called Covenant Partners, to offer Biblical guidance to others. Cross Connections’ desire is to partner with pastors in restoring or changing their clients’ lives. The change we are talking about is “Biblical change”, a change that is accomplished by the Holy Spirit. We are privileged to share hope from God’s Word with our clients, no matter what their circumstances are. Lay counselors, called Covenant Partners, go through 18 months of training, and then they work under the supervision of a professional counselor. Aboite is both a member church and also the southwest Fort Wayne area counseling site. That includes benefits of being able to offer our congregation members reduced fee professional counseling, no fee Covenant Partner counseling, and the opportunity to enroll in Covenant Partner or lay counselor training.

“I learned (through Cross Connections) that I’m not in control and I don’t have to be in control. That I can trust the Lord to handle it and I think I needed to learn that, even in a deeper way. We all say we trust the Lord but when push comes to shove sometimes we think that he’s busy and we’ll take care of it. And it doesn’t work like that. He’s blessed me all the way through this mess in huge ways. Not just details but in big, big ways. Saying, ‘I love you, I hear you, I see you’…”

Visit CrossConnectionsCounseling.com for more information.