Micah Community Center opens on June 29th!

As the only homelessness services facility west of I-44, the Micah Community Center will be part of the city’s collaborative partnership of agencies providing pathways to stability and housing. In a calm, welcoming community space, unhoused neighbors will have a comfortable indoor lounge out of the weather, with bathrooms, showers, resources, and meals. The Community Center will be open a few hours a couple days a week initially, to allow for strategic growth as we develop partners, resources, and volunteers.

Laundry service is a priority need for our unhoused neighbors. The Center has a space we can renovate for laundry services – when we can raise the resources to do so. Can you help us create a laundromat?

DONATE HERE to support the Community Center

The Micah Center will be a ‘low barrier’ facility: meaning there are as few requirements as possible to receive basic services. Supportive services will be offered as we expand our open hours, but participation will not be required. We are not enrolling individuals into a program or monitoring personal lifestyles. This is strategic and leads to better engagement and outcomes when neighbors choose to participate.

Read Mission and Culture for more details

The purpose of the Center is twofold 1) offer community and survival services to our neighbors, and 2) be a resource hub by providing office space for partnering service agencies to meet with clients in order to bring currently under-resourced neighbors into the system to remove barriers and provide stabilizing services that lead to housing.

“Community” is in our name for a reason; it will take all of us to support our unhoused neighbors. We are looking for individuals, groups, and faith communities who want to be engaged over the long term. We are stepping out now in faith that by starting, however small initially, the Center will generate engagement and funding so that we can expand. We technically belong to the OKC system, but we will serve unhoused individuals in Bethany, Warr Acres, and probably even further, so the need is great.

*Micah is faith informed: Our Christian faith is what leads us to do this work. As with many of OKC’s homelessness services, observance of a particular faith is not required to receive services or volunteer.