Warren Family Mission

🤠🌵 Saddle Up for Wonder Junction! 🌵🤠

The adventure continues at Kids Zone as Session 2 kicks off on July 2nd!

Get ready to head west for Wonder Junction, a fun-filled western-themed experience where kids will discover God’s truth through exciting Bible lessons, crafts, games, music, and plenty of cowboy-sized fun!

🐴 Western Theme
⭐ Faith-Based Lessons
🎨 Crafts & Activities
🎶 Music & Games

Don’t miss this exciting journey through Wonder Junction as we learn about Jesus and make unforgettable summer memories together!

📅 July 2nd and 3rd, July 9th and 10th, July 16th and 17th.
📍 155 Tod Ave NW, Warren, Ohio.

📚🎒 BACK-TO-SCHOOL SUPPLY DRIVE! 🎒📚

The Warren Family Mission is collecting school supplies and backpacks to help local children start the school year prepared and confident!

From June 1st through August 1st, we’re accepting donations of:
✅ Backpacks (K-12 boys & girls)
✅ Notebooks & paper
✅ Crayons, markers, colored pencils
✅ Pens & pencils
✅ Glue sticks & bottles of glue
✅ Folders & binders
✅ Scissors, highlighters, pencil sharpeners
✅ Supply boxes and more!

📍 Drop-Off Location:
Warren Family Mission
155 Tod Ave NW
Warren, OH 44485

🎒 Back-to-School Distribution Day:
📅 August 7th
⏰ Registration: 12:00 PM
⏰ Distribution Begins: 1:00 PM

Our goal is to provide 350 backpacks filled with school supplies to children in our community. Every donation makes a difference and helps ensure local students are equipped for a successful school year.

If you’d like to donate supplies, host a collection drive, or make a financial contribution toward this effort, please contact us!

❤️ Together, we can help local children start the school year ready to learn!

☀️✨ Kids Zone Session 1: Illumination Station Has Come to an End! ✨☀️

What an amazing first session! Our children had a blast learning about God’s love through faith-based lessons, creative crafts, exciting games, and plenty of fun with friends along the way.

We are so thankful for all of the children, volunteers, and staff who helped make Illumination Station such a special experience. Watching these young hearts grow in faith while having fun has been a true blessing.

The fun isn’t over yet! 🎉

📅 Kids Zone Session 2 begins July 2nd!

We can’t wait to welcome everyone back for more faith-filled adventures, learning, laughter, and memories.

Thank you to everyone who made Session 1 such a success. We look forward to seeing you again soon!

❤️ Warren Family Mission

Thank you to Amazon in North Jackson for their generous donation of three pallets of cleaning supplies!

These items will help us continue serving individuals and families in our community with dignity and care. We are grateful for partners like Amazon who help make our mission possible. ❤️

🚑🩺 Join Us Today! 🩺🚑

The Ronald McDonald House Care Mobile, in partnership with Akron Children’s, is at the Warren Family Mission today from 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM providing quality pediatric healthcare right here in our community!

Services available include:
✅ Well-child visits
✅ Immunizations
✅ Care for non-emergency illnesses
✅ Developmental screenings
✅ Adolescent health care
✅ Asthma care and education
✅ Lead and hemoglobin screenings
✅ Referrals for specialty care

This is a great opportunity for families to access pediatric healthcare services close to home.

📍 Warren Family Mission
🕘 Today from 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM

Help us spread the word and share this post with families who may benefit from these services!

A huge thank you to Judge Natale and her team for organizing a food collection to support the Warren Family Mission!

Because of their generosity and commitment to helping our community, we are better able to provide food and assistance to individuals and families facing difficult times. Every donation makes a difference, and we are so grateful for partners like Judge Natale and her staff who are willing to step up and help those in need.

Thank you for your kindness, compassion, and dedication to making our community stronger. We truly appreciate your support! ❤️

We are thankful for Hearts and Hands United and everyone who donated during their June 13th event! ❤️

Through their collection drive, food, clothing, and hygiene items were gathered to help support individuals and families served by the Warren Family Mission.

Thank you for partnering with us to make a difference in our community! 🙏

The Warren Family Mission is honored to be the beneficiary of a special CD Release Event & Concert featuring Dustin Wray and his new album, “I Will Never Be the Same.”

📅 Saturday, August 15, 2026
📍 First Church of Warren
3217 Surrey Rd. SE, Warren, OH 44484

Enjoy an evening of:
🎵 Live Music
🎟️ Chinese Auction
💰 50/50 Drawing
🥫 Food Donation Collection

Doors open at 3:00 PM and the program begins at 5:00 PM. Be sure to arrive before 5:00 PM to purchase your Chinese auction tickets!

Every donation and food item collected will help support the Warren Family Mission as we continue serving individuals and families throughout our community.

🎒📚 Backpack & School Supply Distribution Day! 📚🎒

The Warren Family Mission is excited to help local students get ready for a successful school year!

Join us on Thursday, August 7th, for our annual Backpack & School Supply Distribution for children in grades K–12.

🕛 Registration: 12:00 PM
🕐 Distribution Begins: 1:00 PM

📍 Location:
Warren Family Mission
155 Tod Ave NW
Warren, OH 44485

We will be giving away 350 backpacks filled with school supplies to children in our community!

Please bring:
✅ Parent/Guardian Photo ID
✅ Birth Certificate for each child

⚠️ Supplies are limited and will be distributed on a first-come, first-served basis.

🍕 Plus, enjoy FREE pizza and ice cream!

Help us spread the word so local families can take advantage of this opportunity. We look forward to serving our community and helping students start the school year prepared and confident! ❤️

More than a decade ago, Leah came through the Warren Family Mission’s recovery program seeking hope and a fresh start. Today, her life stands as a powerful testimony of God’s faithfulness, redemption, and the transforming power of Christ. We are honored to share her story.

"I was blessed to grow up in a loving Christian home. As a child, I was active in sports, did well in school, and was surrounded by great friends and family. My life took a turn in tenth grade after a knee injury and the loss of a close friend. As I began spending time with the wrong crowd, I slowly drifted away from the values I had been taught. What started as experimentation led me down a dark road of addiction that I never imagined I would travel.

By the summer after high school graduation, I was fully addicted and began a cycle of treatment centers, temporary sobriety, and relapse. I managed to graduate from college and become a teacher, but behind the scenes, I was living a double life. For years, I was a full-time teacher and a full-time addict. Eventually, the consequences caught up with me. I experienced an overdose, spent time in a psychiatric ward, and watched relationships fall apart. I was spiritually empty and emotionally broken.

In the middle of my darkest season, God began pursuing me. I remember crying out to Him and experiencing His presence in a way I had never known before. He led me back to Ohio, and to Hannah's House. This is where I began attending church and surrounding myself with believers who spoke truth into my life. I thought God would heal me instantly, but instead He chose to restore me one step at a time. Through the ministry of Hannah’s House and the Warren Family Mission, God breathed life back into me. Through His Word, prayer, and faithful people He placed in my path, He rebuilt my life from the ground up.

As my relationship with Christ grew, so did my recovery. God taught me that healing is often a process and that true freedom comes through surrendering every part of our lives to Him. He gave me a strong foundation, godly friendships, and a purpose beyond anything I could have imagined. In time, He brought my husband into my life, and together we have been blessed with three beautiful children. Today I still teach, but now I have the privilege of teaching God’s Word at Hannah's House and helping others find recovery through biblical principles that have transformed my own life.

Since then, I have experienced both incredible blessings and profound losses, including the passing of loved ones who meant the world to me. Yet even through grief, God has remained faithful. He allowed me the honor of caring for family members in their final years, a gift I will always treasure. Looking back, I can see that God gave me the life I once desperately longed for—not because I earned it, but because of His grace and mercy.

My story is proof that no one is beyond God's reach. If He can take a broken, addicted, hopeless life and turn it into one filled with purpose, faith, and gratitude, He can do the same for anyone. To Him be all the glory."