Welcome to our Website! 

CTLC is an ecumenical organization of over 30 local churches working with the support of area business and social service groups to meet basic human needs on a temporary and/or emergency basis.  Our staff is composed entirely of volunteers who assist from 80 to 160 families per week.  These include street people, the elderly, the disabled, and those marginally employed or unemployed.

• If you are a person needing assistance from CTLC, please go to our Services page for a description of the kinds of assistance we offer and our hours of operation.
   

•  If you or your organization would like to volunteer to work during the week in assisting families and individuals who come in for help, please click on our Volunteers page.  There are several areas that you can volunteer to work in.
   

• If you need someone to speak to your group or organization about CTLC, speakers are available.  Just call us during Donation Hours (see below) at 254-778-6885 and ask for the director, Cynthia Russell, or email us at ctlc@ctlcministries.org and we'll set something up. 
   

•  If you would like to make a donation of food, clothing and/or household items, please see the Donations page.  Financial donations are also needed to purchase many of the food and hygiene items given out – information on how to make such a donation can also be found on this page.
   

•  At times CTLC runs short of certain items that we would normally try to have available to give to the families/individuals who need them.  You will find a list of those items on the Current Needs page.

Donation Hours

• CTLC has a great need for blankets, sheets, towels, pots & pans, dishes (especially plates), jackets or coats for men and children. 
   
• We are in need of canned fruit, soup, corn, any kind of canned veggie, mac & cheese, green beans.
   
• We are asking the church members of our participating churches to donate food for the rest of the year to our food pantry.  Each church is assigned a specific type of food to be responsible for during the year.  Click here for more information.  We don’t want giant economy sizes because we are unable to re-package any foods.
   
• We need LOTS of VOLUNTEERS on Tuesday afternoons and Saturday mornings.
   
• We have a great need for used pew Bibles, paperback or hard cover, if you are needing to find a new home for them.
   
• Tom Martens is starting a beginning computer class for clients on January 27th on Wednesdays 9:30-11 AM.  Anyone may join at any time!
   
• We have a great need for 3 able-bodied men to help load and unload and at least 1 man with a pick-up truck to pick up food from TLC and then help unload it at CTLC on Wednesday mornings at 8:00.  Anyone who volunteers should be able to lift heavy loads with no problem.

For directions on how to get to our location, click here.

• The Tri-City Bikers donated lots of children's toys and over $600 to purchase additional toys for Christmas.  A BIG thank you! 
   
• Lacks Furniture donated the food put under their annual Christmas tree this year -- a panel truck full of food!  Thank you!
   
• Thank you to Weight Watchers for the food drive they held with their members!  Over 444 lbs of food were donated to CTLC on November 7th.