hope community development corporation
The organization programs are comprised of the following compromised of the following components:
Educational program for children with learning disabilities, mental retardation and emotional disabilities. Hope Community Development Corporation Inc. offers a full day education program that strives to meet the needs of this special population. The educational curriculum promotes learning in academic, physical, emotional and social areas.
Year Round After School Program / Tutoring: The After School Program addresses academic deficiencies in Reading, and Math while improving school behavior and developing positive self-esteem amongst the students. Individualized instruction in small academic class settings provides a framework for a productive educational program that will promote cognitive skill development. The After School Program encourages parents to become actively involved in the education of their children by involvement and participation in school activities. Individualized and group tutoring is offered to assist students that are struggling in academic areas. The goal of the program is to help children improve in all areas and to reach their appropriate grade level.
Adult Education Program: The Adult Education Program offers pre-literacy, ESOL and High School Diploma. The program is offered to parents with poor literacy or no literacy skills and to parents with learning disabilities.
Homebuyers Assistance: This program educates first time homebuyers on the process of owning a home, improve credit rating and how to build a family budget that will enable them to save for a down payment.
Food Distribution: Hope Community Development, Inc distributes food to families and churches throughout Miami Dade County.
Case Management / Referral Services: Families in crisis are provided with case management services designed to improve the family infrastructure. Families are referred to community programs that can provide additional assistance to special needs. Case management services focuses on improving family communication, teamwork and school success while decreasing at-risk behaviors in children and youth.
To instill biblical principles, good citizenship, personal responsibility and entrepreneurship in a well balanced program that is child-centered and academically challenging developing student's unique gifts and abilities.
In the verbal inspiration and inerrancy of the Scriptures, both the Old and New Testaments.
2. Our God is a trinity in unity, manifested in three persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.
3. In the Deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, His virgin birth, His sinless life, His miracles, His vicarious and atoning death on the cross, His bodily resurrection, His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and in His personal return in power and glory.
4. That regeneration (the New Birth) by the Holy Ghost for the salvation of lost and sinful mankind, through personal faith in the shed blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, is absolutely essential.
5. In a life of holiness, without which no man can see the Lord, through sanctification as a definite, yet progressive, work of grace.
6. In the Baptism of the Holy Ghost, received subsequent to the new birth, with speaking in other tongues, as the Spirit gives the utterance, as the initial physical sign and evidence.
7. In water baptism by immersion for believers only, which is a direct commandment of our Lord, in the Name of the Father, and of the Son (the Lord Jesus Christ), and of the Holy Spirit.
8. In the Lord ‚?s supper and washing of the Saints ‚? feet.
9. That divine healing is provided for in the atonement, and is available to all who truly believe.
10. In the Pre-millennial second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ; First, to resurrect the righteous dead and to catch away the living saints to meet him in the air (the Rapture); and, Second, to reign on the earth a thousand years.
11. In the bodily resurrection of both the saved and the lost: they that are saved unto the resurrection of life, and they that are lost unto the resurrection of damnation.
12. PAGA is willing to fellowship all sound Christian believers who are contending for the love of God, and the principles of Christ as revealed in the Holy Bible. However, we cannot and will not endorse or approve radical teachings which gender strife and tend to divide the body of Christ. We firmly stand against and denounce homosexuality, adultery, sexual perversion, scientific interference with natural human progeny, same-sex marriages, pornography, gambling, drug use and partaking of intoxicants, physical abuse, Satanism, or divination in any form. No PAGA minister or affiliate shall be required, but rather prohibited from compromising these principles of faith.
13. In all other teachings, doctrines, principles and standards in the Holy Bible, as interpreted by the Pentecostal Assemblies of God of America.
