Our Vision:
We exist to end substandard housing in rural Alabama.
Our Mission:
We extend the love of Christ through home repair and children’s ministry.
We believe Christ’s love must be expressed in action to people in need. ARM is a hands on ministry; responding to people through Christian love with an emphasis in home repair and children’s ministry-it’s all about building the family!
Alabama Rural Ministry coordinates home repair efforts and children’s day camps in rural areas of Alabama. We are interdenominational but are connected to the United Methodist Church. All denominations are welcome to come and serve!
How We Serve:
Our main way of combating poverty and providing home repair and children’s ministry is through volunteers. ARM hosts youth mission camps during the summer at two locations in Alabama: Livingston and Tuskegee. Our site in Tuskegee runs year round allowing for Spring Breaks, Christmas Breaks, Fall breaks, and even mission retreat weekends. Livingston runs only in the summer. Our mission camps allow groups to serve with families who need home repair and/or provide engaging activities for children at our Sonshine Kids Day Camp. Our website is about helping you find a place to serve in the rural communities of Alabama, learn ways to alleviate poverty, and extend Jesus’ love.
The Cary Center for the Advancement of Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies is an academic center in the College of Human Sciences. It is the repository of educational programs which involve multi-generational and broad spectrum participants. Cary Center staff work in tandem with the Department of Consumer and Design Sciences to provide instruction in the Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies minor. The Cary Center is located in the historic Halliday Cary Pick house.
The Auburn University Early Learning Center (AUELC) is an accredited, laboratory, preschool serving children ages 3, 4 and 5 years old and is housed in the College of Human Sciences' Department of Human Development and Family Studies. The center, begun in 1926 has been continuously accredited by the National Association for the Education of Young Children since 1986. The
AUELC is located in the center of Auburn University.
The teaching philosophy of the facility is grounded in the concept of developmentally appropriate practice in which children “learn by doing” and are guided by a curriculum designed to capitalize upon knowledge of how young children learn. The facility also maintains a research mission and is designed to maximize opportunities to conduct developmental research on children and their families
Camp iCare began in 2009 as a joint partnership between the Women's Philanthropy Board and the Auburn University Early Learning Center. Both of these programs are part of the Auburn University College of Human Sciences.
Today, Camp iCare is a division of the Auburn University College of Human Sciences' Cary Center for the Advancement of Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies and continues to operate as a partnership with the Early Learning Center. Through Camp iCare, youth ages 6-12 are educated, enabled and empowered to be "money smart" and philanthropically engaged.
Camp iCare is the first of its kind on the Auburn University campus and very rare nation-wide and is dedicated to teaching kids how to be money smart, understand wants vs. needs, and practice philanthropy. Through this unique learning program, campers will develop their leadership and giving skills while making a positive impact on others