GAP Ministries

A nonprofit organization

$3,564 raised by 4 donors

Standing in the GAP to provide HELP to Children, HEALING to Families, and HOPE to our Community. Since opening our first home for neglected and abused children 26 years ago, children have always been at the heart of GAP. But GAP Ministries wants to do more than just meet the needs of these precious children. It is our desire, through our diverse community programs, to BREAK GENERATIONAL CYCLES OF POVERTY AND ABUSE!

Help us reach our goal of $30,000 this Arizona Gives Day to complete a well on our Healing Hub campus for foster children and teens, as well as repairing air conditioners in three of the houses, and a retreat area for the chldren with picnic tables, fire pit, and gazebo. Find out more about our Hope Runs Deep campaign: https://gapmin.com/hope-runs-deep/
Donations to GAP Ministries (QFCO #10020) qualify for the Arizona Foster Care Tax Credit. You may apply your donation to your 2025 taxes if you have not yet filed, or for your 2026 taxes. For 2025 couples may give up to $1234 and singles may give up to $618. For 2026 the maximum amounts are $1262 (couples) or $632 (singles).

About GAP Ministries:
For over 25 years, children have always been at the heart of GAP. But GAP Ministries wants to do more than just meet the needs of these precious children. It is the desire of the organization to BREAK GENERATIONAL CYCLES OF POVERTY AND ABUSE! Over the years more programs have been added to the ministry to help children and families before they reach the crisis point where their children can end up in foster care. And programs to help families after the children have been removed so that they can learn healthy parenting skills and find good paying jobs to successfully provide for their families.

CHILDREN: GAP annually cares for over 250 foster children and teens, either by foster families licensed and trained by GAP, or in family-model group homes. Siblings are able to stay together while in care due to the larger size of our homes and children are given love and support through the stability afforded within a family model.

FAMILY: GAP believes that the root problem needs to be dealt with in order to stop the foster care cycle from repeating. Because of this, we have programs to help heal the families of the children in care. GAP supervises court-mandated visitations between children and their families, with the desire that children and parents re-establish a healthy relationship while working toward reunification whenever possible.

COMMUNITY: GAP's Community Warehouse partners with local retailers and over 50+ local non-profits in order to redistribute fresh food and basic needs items to over 3,000 families weekly. The GAP Kitchen prepares meals weekly for thousands of low-income, at-risk children and families throughout Pima County. GAP's Career Plus Job & Life Development Training provides opportunity for a better future to young adults and others coming from difficult situations, such as incarceration or addiction.

GAP Ministries serves all children and individuals in need, with a diversity of religions or none at all because we strongly believe people deserve to be treated with love, respect, and dignity. Being faith-based means that we live out our belief system which calls us to lead lives full of love and compassion, helping those in need with specific attention paid to the orphan and the widow.