Cornerstone's new Work Opportunity Center partners provide ministry and work opportunities to the homeless, victims of domestic abuse, ex-offenders, those leaving welfare, and others needing employment help. The primary goal is to help participants leave poverty and find and fulfill their purpose in life.

Several work opportunities are offered at the center (housed in Cornerstone's Community Sharehouse Resource Center) to give participants work experience, including:
 

• accounting • appliance repair • auto repair • computer refurbishing • clerical workonstruction • culinary arts • deliveries • forklift operation

• furniture repair • office management • painting • retail • sewing • shipping and receiving • warehouse operation • website design

Participants spend part of their time gaining valuable work experience, and part of their time in the classroom (length dependent on skill level), taking classes such as job readiness skills, social skills, interviewing skills, self-image, dressing for success, hygiene, literacy, and GED preparations, as well as career skills.

Besides sponsoring individuals to participate, you can help by mentoring a person, making daily lunches for the workers, teaching life or job skills, providing incentives or gifts, planning or sponsoring field trips, preparing devotionals, giving Bibles, serving as prayer partners, or providing work opportunities on- and off-site.

Summary

Tulsa Cornerstone Assistance Network's Work Opportunity Center is a partnership of local churches, ministries, agencies and businesses designed to help participants take a year out of life, work it out, and learn how to really live!

1. Work on Your Life

Focus on key life issues:
• Stop short-term financial crisis
• Develop a plan for your life
• Establish a solid work record
• Develop your skills/experience
• Learn to budget/manage finances
• Strengthen family relationships
• Eat right, exercise, get in shape
• Learn how to lead others
 

2. Work to Help Others

Help area churches serve families:
• Warehouse operation
• Car repair
• Appliance repair
• Food/clothing collection/sorting
• Administrative assistance
• Furniture repair
• Restaurant/food service
• Regular service opportunities

3. Work to Find Purpose

Discover God's plan for your life:
• Find a supportive church home
• Enjoy daily prayer and devotions
• Explore the meaning of life
• Fellowship with one another
• Begin discipleship classes
• Learn your life purpose
• Identify your gifts
• Share God's love, your testimony

4. Phases of Life Transformation
 

5. Life Issues to Address

6. The Bucks Start Here

a. Receive "work bucks" for the basics ...
Once you are sponsored, you will receive benevolence assistance while working on your life, working to help others, and working to find purpose. As churches sponsor you, your bills are paid as long as you participate in the program and required classes. You then learn to manage bills by managing your work bucks.

b. Receive cash commissions and bonuses for extras ...
Once you are sponsored by a church and you establish the area at the Work Opportunity Center in which you will be serving, you can receive additional benevolence in the form of cash commissions or bonuses for extras above and beyond your bills. Certain items will be forbidden such as alcohol and drugs.

c. Develop savings for the future ...
In addition to benevolence for your bills and extras, you can establish a savings account. When it is agreed by all that you have completed your plan and are ready to leave, you will receive the savings to help you transition to your new life.

7. Amenities and Benefits

Care plan and skills/gifts testing
Personal locker and hot showers
On-site breakfast and lunch
Entertainment
Mini-vacations
Trips
Daily prayer for issues
Physical fitness
Fellowship
Medical care
Job training
Weekend retreats
Transportation assistance
Resumé and work history builder
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