The Life Center for the Homeless 

The Life Center is dedicated to serve, educate and represent the Homeless of Houston. Through the operation of a resource center, The Life Center hopes to impart sufficient work and basic living skills, along with a positive and focused mental attitude to Homeless individuals so they can take their proper place as productive and stable members of today’s society.

There are approximately 20,000 homeless people in the City of Houston and there is no indication that the number is diminishing. With depressing forces at work in our nation’s urban areas, the records of violent deaths continue to be broken. Hence, our name “The Life Center.” To be homeless and without shelter is a frightening situation that often appears insurmountable. It’s an endless cycle driving them deeper into despair. The cycle can be broken.  We began The Life Center to break that cycle. With your help we can continue to help and assist one of our most vulnerable populations - the lost and homeless.

We provide homeless people with resources, a warm bed (temporary shelter) and a hot meal. We also share donations of clothing to keep them warm, job counseling, spiritual guidance, a computer literacy program and even a drug and alcohol rehabilitation program to help them overcome destructive addictions as they learn to cope with life.

We assist men, women and children. While at The Life Center, they will receive the services listed and also be referred to other agencies, ones that can assist them with getting proper identification, also agencies that help with employment, in an effort to give them opportunity to escape the cycle of life on the streets. But we can’t achieve this alone. We need your support. The Life Center has not received any government grants as of yet. When funds are available, we can help even more of Houston's most homeless and destitute, especially during the winter months.  

The Life Center vision began in 1989 and is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, faith based Christian organization. The Life Center operates as a refuge for those who are in need. There is also a 90-day rehabilitation program. We have a non-discrimination policy.