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Welcome to JCity Center for Hope & Renewal
We’re rebuilding bridges in Johnston City, Illinois–a person, marriage, family, or group at a time. One of our community development goals is to inform, unite, and promote our town by publishing JCity Arrow News, a free, hometown newspaper with an up-to-the-minute website. We offer individual services like counseling as well. We believe that better people make better communities, and better communities mean better lives.
Who we are
JCity Center for Hope and Renewal, Inc. is a faith-based, independent, nonprofit organization enabling personal, relational, and community development. Our goal is to work with volunteers and other agencies connecting individuals and families with counselors, mentors, and resources to improve mental health, relationships, addiction recovery, financial stability, adequate housing, and community involvement.
What we do
We believe that we can help rebuild bridges to better lives and a better community by providing services to both individuals and the community. We offer services in personal, relational, and community development.
• Personal Development: mental health counseling, trauma/grief counseling, addiction recovery, peer mentoring, community education, crisis resources
• Relational Development: marriage and family counseling, support groups
• Community Development: providing new local media sources (Arrow News print, online, and podcast editions), promoting volunteerism, community service
Through partnership and cooperation with other nonprofit and community organizations, we currently offer mental health and family counseling, invested community counseling, addiction recovery coaching, and personal and family financial mentoring.
Who We work with
We are a satellite office of Caring Counseling Ministries, one of the top-rated Christian counseling agencies in southern Illinois.
We are the first community resource center established by Take Action Today, a faith-based nonprofit with three other area locations.
We serve as the contact point for the Johnston City Ministerial Alliance. Our director is the JCMA treasurer.
We are a co-sponsor (with JCity Church) of JC Kids’ Lunch Bunch, Johnston City’s longstanding summer meals program.
As an outreach to the community, JCity Church launched the Center purchased the property and launched our center as a nonprofit community development organization in 2020.