Giving Hope to the Hopeless, A Home to the Homeless.

2130 S.E. 59th Street P.O. Box 2896Oklahoma City, OK 73129 Oklahoma City, OK 73101Office: 405.236.3349Fax: 405.232.5871www.huminc.org

A Message

Founder, President, and Executive Director.David Nichols

In the state of Oklahoma alone there are over 8000 men and women released from prison eachyear. Very few of these have the resources, money or the right influence needed to be success-ful in starting life over and reintegrating into society as a productive citizen. Sadly, a large por-tion end up returning to prison.Since 1996, Hand Up Ministries has provided assistance to those most likely to return to prison because these individuals are forgotten… discarded with no one to help them. Our ministryembraces the “high risk” individuals, recently released from prisons, “on-the-streets” and home-less with miraculous results.Those taking advantage of the program long enough to really help, the return rate goes down toone in twenty which is far below state and national rates. Our program is volunteer and the indi-viduals are free to choose their involvement in our approach to moral and legal living. Our par-ticipants have chose to reside at Hand Up Ministries when even during their time here theywere threatened with jail for living here because of ineffective residency laws. If law enforce-ment and the Department of Corrections were actually interested in “stopping the cycle” whocould guess the level of successful results.We believe it’s possible with the right cooperation from state agencies, municipalities, and or-ganizations we can to reduce our recidivism statistics to one in forty or even better. OR—, if you prefer, you can keep growing the prison system. If you want to talk, my number is405-613-3120

I will forgive their iniquity,and I will remember their sin no more.

Jeremiah 31:34