The Catholic Action Center located at 1055 Industry Road is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The Center offers both day and night shelter, free meals (Breakfast 9:00am, Lunch Noon, & Dinner 5:30pm), as well as a host of special programming & services.

The Lighthouse Ministries is a non-profit, faith-based organization dedicated to reaching the homeless and low and moderate income population of Lexington and the Fayette County area, by providing free meals and supplies for our neighbors in need.

The Hope Center’s mission is to care for homeless and at-risk persons by providing life-sustaining and life-rebuilding services that are comprehensive and address underlying causes.

Hello, I’m Isabel and I’m here on the Geist Christian Church mission trip for the second time. I’m writing with my sister, Anna, who’s on the trip for the first time. We’re excited to have arrived safely in Lexington with all our friends. As soon as we got here, we jumped right into the first of many fun activities we’ll get to do on this trip. The great thing about these activities is that they’re designed to help us understand the problems and emotions of the people we will be working with later this week. Tonight we engaged in a simulation of households living below the poverty line. The families were challenged with many different things, including: acquiring social security numbers, finding care for their children, finding a way to afford shelter, and sometimes even getting jobs. We learned the challenges of finding balance in such a difficult lifestyle. Hopefully, this will help us find empathy with families that struggle with these difficulties, and will help us to provide better service to them. After that, we enjoyed a gourmet dinner of pizza and salad. We played games with our friends and are about to enjoy a reflection of all we’ve done today. We hope to have a safe and memorable trip!

I’m Coleman Latty, I’m a senior at Fishers High School, this is my 4th mission trip. Today on our way home we went zip lining at Red River Gorge. There was a total of 5 courses each incrementing in speed, height, and length as we went on. At the first line a couple of us were nervous to go down as it seemed pretty high up and far away, but by the final line everybody was ready to send themselves flying off the platform. I was a participant of the original Hazard trip taken by Geist youth 3 years ago, and I must say I enjoyed the work and comradeship built with the contractors and other kids just as much, if not more, as the first trip. The experiences I have had this week will be ones I remember for the rest of my life, I’m happy to have gone on this trip.

Every year a church member gives me some extra cash to do something special for the youth on their mission trip. This year we enjoyed some shaved ice on Thursday night. Here are their smiling faces saying….Thank You!