Welcome to
The Sharing Organization
We Provide Christian worship services to nursing and adult foster care residents.
Read MoreEst. 2003
On September 7th., 2003 we began Sunday morning services at three locations to some 50 residents.
Read MoreWe are a 501(c)(3) Non-Profit Organization
In 2006 we started the inncorporation process and was approved by the IRS in mid 2006. You may look us up in the IRS database by clicking the button below. Be sure to search by our Employee ID Number 20-4287703.
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About
Who we are
During my college internship, I was tasked with going to the local nursing homes to do church services. After my month of services ended, the director of one of the homes asked me to continue doing the services through out the summer as the local churches took the summer months (June-August) off. I admit, I reluctantly agreed as I wanted my summer off too. But I agreed to do a weekly service throughout the summer. During my time I learned a few things.
- There was a great need for Christian services to the residents in the nursing care community.
- Some (not many) churches volunteer at their local nursing care home at their own liesure: once a month or (like where I first served) one month per year.
- I was convicted that if the love and gospel of Jesus was going to be of any real value to the residents, they needed to be served weekly and real relationship needed to be formed.
So after praying for God's direction and seekiing confirmation, mine and my wife's path forward to provide in the ministry to the residents who lived in nursing and adult foster care facilities was formed. It's been more than 21 years that we have walked this path and its been a great jourmey ministering to the people who are very muchh marginalized in our society. Though the years, I have been asked if I would consider taking a positon of a lead pastor at a church but I have passed those offers by because I recognized that God has created me for this particular ministry. At this point in my life, I realize that had I gone the lead pastor route, I would have harmed the Church because Christ has not gifted me to that service.
Services
What We Do
Weekly Worship
We conduct a weekly worship service in the nursing care home. Weekly services are important to build the relationships with the residents that communicate the care of Christ.
Weekly Devotional
During the 2020 shutdown, we began writing and mailing a weekly devotioinal to people. Today, we still do this as it serves a niche to many people who are shut-ins and live in there own homes.
New Mom Kits
Twice a year, for Christmas & summertime, we asist the residents to create gift bags for new moms through our local Compassion Pregnancy Center . It's important that residents have an opporunity to continue to serve their community and participate in Christian outreach.
Our Daily Bread
Each quarter we provide 50 of the daily devotioinals, Our Daily Bread (larger print), to those who desire them.
Monthly Prayer Letter
We are not alone in this mission. Over 100 people just like you support this effort with thier prayers as well as financially. Each month we write these partners with the details of the latest happenings and prayer needs that we have. It's important to us that our partners always know what is going on on the front line, so to speak.'
Our Time
It might seem silly, but the people we serve appreciate the time that we spend with them each week. It gives them some regularity and something to look forward to that isn't just another doctor's appointment.
Team
Our Dedicated Team
The John Rock Family
Missionary Family
Terry Olson
Mission Assitant
William Carson
Trustee
Steve & Dena Endres
Trustees
Brian Pike
Trustee
Cathy Rock
TrusteesGive
This Sharing Organization Ministry is important because it is up to us to care for the saints. The men and women we minister to were once active servants of Christ in the Church, but now that they are in their elder years, they are often shelved and forgotten about. Please join us as together we remember this forgotten Church.
Shoe Box Ministry with Operation Christmas Child
For 21 years we worked with the residents at Christmas time to make shoe box gifts for poor children around the world. Shoe boxes had a triple benefit.
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Each shoe box gift gave essensial (and fun) gifts along with the Christmas message of the love and hope of Jesus. - The program helped the residents get outside of their four walls (so to speak) and do a project that had global impact..
- The program also allowed our partners the opportunoty to participate directly (physically and monitarily) with the residents.
We participated with Samaritan's Purse each year since 2003 in filling shoe boxes with the residents. This is the 1st year (2024) that we will discontinue with that effort. We love the Operation Christmas Child program and ministry. However, after assessing the needs of the residents and finding a local program to participate with twice for what it cost to make shoe boxes once, with some dsadness we have decided to pull out of the shoe box program.
Non Profit Status
When the ministry began in 2003, it was 100% volunteer led and operated. By 2004 we were receiving phone calls requesting that we provide services to more locations than the three we started with on Sunday mornings. By 2006, our family was encouraged to begin doing the ministry full time. We were never quite sure how the ministry would financially survive but even though times have been lean, God has never failed to provide for our fulltime endeavor.
In over 20 years, we've never passed a collection plate, have never sent an invoice for services rendered, and With no idea how we were going to pay the bills, God has provided and never failed to provide.
Non Profit Status
The Sharing Organization has an official Mision Statement but I would have to look it up to tell it to you. What I don't have to look up is our passion. Our passion is sharing the love and Gospel of Jesus with people who live in the nursing care homes. Residents who are elderly or infirmed are often overlooked by society as a whole. They may be cared for, housed, clothed, and fed, but mostly, they are shelved. I wish I could say that the Church is much different in this matter,while it does try, the Church has many pokers in the fire and thus the nursing home is never the first place we go to give comfort and share ourselves.
In my number one best seller, The Forgotten Church 10 Years of Ministry , I share many of the problems I had learning to minister in the nursing homes anf I also share about many of the people I met in that first 10 years of ministry. My book will not stand up to the test of time like War and Peace or Moby Dick, but it is still worthy of a quick read. Oh, and it's Large Print which is nice. You should really order yourself a copy. If you have Amazon mail it to me first, I'll sign it and send it to you.
Michigan Veteran Home
In February of 2021, we began regular weekly services to our local Michigan Veteran Home. I was chosen specifically because I myself am a veteran which supposedly would give me an automatic repore with the veterans. I can't say if my military service makes any difference but I do have a great relationship with the residents in this facility. On day one a WWII veteran shook my hand and told me he had been praying that God would send then a minister; I'm thrilled it was me. This is the largest group I serve and it is my greatest pleasure serve the soldiers of yester-year.
Contact
Contact Us
Mailing Address
PO Box 73, Armada, MI 48005
Call Us
+1-313-359-5460
Email Us
thesharingorg@gmail.com