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 interim director, Jim Hornsby, 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

Cynthia Russell, the director of CTLC since 1994 and one of its original founders, went to be with the Lord on November 16, 2011 after a battle with lung cancer.  She will be missed by clients and volunteers alike.
 

• CTLC has a great need for several items.  Click on the "Current Needs" button to the left. 
   
• Bread is a big need.  HEB on Adams Avenue is furnishing some bread for us now but we could use more.  Let us know if there is another source you know of. 
   
• 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 are still looking for a good used (good priced) refrigerated box truck so we can get more food from the truckers at the truck stops.  And we are looking for 9 new computers (wireless internet) for a computer class.
   
• 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.

• 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.

• To all participating churches for the great amount of help so far this year when we could not get enough food for the pantry.  THANK YOU!
   
• Thank you to First Choice Power and the Chamber of Commerce for selecting us to receive the matching grant from one of our regular contributions.  This will help defer the cost of putting in a walk-in freezer!
   
• Indigo gave us 3 new desks and a new computer came from Acer in September -- thank you!  This was the first new desk and new computer we have ever gotten at CTLC.