Austin Street Centre
Provides free, safe overnight shelter for about 300 homeless men, women and children. It is operated by two full-time Episcopal priests and has a full-time staff of 30 people. Transfiguration provides two complete evening meals to the shelter every month.

CITY House
Provides temporary emergency shelter for youth aged 10 to 17, crisis intervention, a transitional living program, free counseling for youth and families in crisis, and is adding a shelter for young children between the ages of 0 and 9 who have been removed from their homes due to abuse or neglect.

Clothes Horse
A resale clothing shop, providing low cost clothing options to people within the community while raising money for opportunities at Transfiguration and beyond.

Dallas Area Interfaith (DAI)
DAI is comprised of 60 institutions located throughout Dallas and Collin Counties. It is a coalition of people of faith organized for the purpose of engagement in public life, identifying and training leaders from these institutions who work on issues raised by their families, communities, and congregations. DAI’s agenda includes neighborhood redevelopment, housing, public education, immigration and citizenship, and health care. The organization is non-partisan and works across lines of race, geography, and class in order to help the voiceless find their voice and participate in the public arena.

Dallas CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates)
A non-profit organization that trains volunteers to represent children who have been taken into protective custody because of abuse or neglect. These specially trained volunteers are appointed by judges in the Juvenile Court system and they have received thirty hours of classroom instruction on how to represent the child’s best interests and testify on their behalf in court. In some cities these volunteers are called Guardian Ad Litems. There are two events during the year that need volunteers other than in the Advocacy Program. These are Parade of Playhouses, which is held yearly the first two weeks in August in Northpark Center, where donated playhouses are raffled off with the proceeds going directly to CASA and National Adoption Day, held in November, where between sixty to one hundred and twenty foster children are adopted into safe, permanent homes. The attorneys representing these children serve pro bono.

Episcopal Relief and Development
Episcopal Relief and Development is a compassionate response of the Episcopal Church to human suffering in the world, established in 1940 by the Episcopal Church in the United States as the Presiding Bishop’s Fund for World Relief. Its original mission was to assist refugees fleeing Europe during World War II. In 2000, its name was changed to Episcopal Relief and Development to emphasize ongoing emergency relief work and a growing focus on long-term development and rehabilitation programs.

Habitat for Humanity
A faith based international organization that builds houses with no interest mortgages for low-income families. Volunteers do most of the construction of the home. View some photos.

Happy Homes School
Happy Homes School is Transfiguration’s international outreach program in the northeast region of South Africa. This outreach program has continued to grow through generous donations from parishioners, together with students and staff of the Parish Episcopal School, and support from the Africa Foundation. Since 2003, we have built a pre-school facility serving 112 African children, ages 3-6, a large percentage of whom have been orphaned through AIDS. The school comprises 4 bright, airy, fully furnished classrooms, a kitchen, a playground with equipment, ablution facilities and a large vegetable garden. The aim of the school is to be a refuge for these poor children, whilst preparing them to enter first grade in the local government elementary school, well equipped to thrive and succeed.

Heart Warmers
The Outreach Craft Guild. Heart Warmers are volunteer knitters, crocheters, quilters and seamstresses who give of their time and talent in service to others through their love of the fiber arts and by creating items for others. Their mission is to warm the bodies and hearts of all they touch. They collect handmade items once a month for donation to Parkland Hospital, Austin Street Centre, and other worthy institutions.

Hearts and Helpers
Working with the City of Richardson Code Enforcement Office, they undertake home maintenance projects for the elderly/disabled. This is a weekly work project for the FIG youth during the summer.

Honduras Mission Trip – View the 2009 Video Album.
Provides an opportunity for parish volunteers to build homes and schools, teach and provide health services to the people of Honduras.

Hope’s Door
A non-profit community organization offering safe, temporary shelter and support programs for battered and abused women and their children. Programs include general counseling, legal, employment, housing and childcare referrals as well as some limited financial assistance.

Neighborhood Services Council
A non-profit organization serving multi-ethnic working families in the Spring Valley/Coit Road area. The council provides after school camps and tutoring, summer day camps, scouting, ESL classes, employment skills training and athletic programs.

North Dallas Shared Ministries – more info
An inter-denominational food bank providing the needy temporary help with food, some cash and ESL classes. The parish also collects food several times throughout the year.

Our Friend’s Place
Provides neighborhood facilities, in a home-like atmosphere, for girls ages 10-21 who have been the victims of abuse and or abandonment.

Outreach Steering Committee
Meets regularly to review and coordinate outreach projects of the parish.

Peace and Justice Ministry
“Will you strive for justice and peace among all people, and respect the dignity of every human being?” (from The Baptismal Covenant, BCP, pg 305) Their mission is to “Celebrate God’s presence by working for peace and justice in the world. Guided by prayer, knowledge and love, the group is a forum for discussion, education, support and action”. This group is for those committed to working for peace and justice in the world and includes Dallas Area Interfaith.

St. Simon’s Child Care Program
Provides after school care at various schools in low-income areas where both parents must often work past 5:00 p.m.

U2charist – View video of the service.
In August 2009, Transfiguration hosted a U2charist, an Episcopal Eucharist featuring music of the rock band U2 and a message about God’s call to rally around the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Donations will continue to support the Global AIDS Interfaith Alliance‚ a non-profit organization that provides life-saving services and programs to communities in Africa devastated by the effects of HIV and AIDS. Visit U2charist.net to learn more and watch a video of the event.

Voice of Hope
Provides children living in West Dallas with strong character models, educational support, life skills, and the family support services needed to help them become productive Christian citizens. Help continue their great work with children in west Dallas.

Wilkinson Center
An East Dallas social service agency supported directly by parish funds.

Youth First Texas
Provides counseling, referral and social services for youths struggling with sexual/gender identity issues.