The mission of Faith in Action of San Angelo is to create a caring community of volunteers who offer support services to frail/elderly and physically disabled adults enabling them to live independently and with dignity.

The Faith in Action program was founded on the ideal of community volunteerism, of neighbors helping neighbors.  With more American living longer lives, many face the challenge of caring for a family member, neighbor, or friend who suffers from arthritis, diabetes, cancer, Alzheimer?s, AIDS, or other long-term health conditions.

 The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is supporting faith-based community efforts to help meet this challenge with volunteer caregivers.  These efforts have helped to build over 1,100 interfaith volunteer caregiving programs across the country.

 Faith in Action coalitions bring together religious congregations of many faiths, and other community organizations in a common mission to provide volunteer care to their neighbors in need.

Five Building Blocks of a Faith in Action Coalition:

1. Interfaith ? Coalition members must include religious congregations that reflect the diversity of the community served by the program.
2. Volunteer ? The individuals providing services must be volunteers.
3. Caregiving ? The focus of the program is on informal caregiving ? tasks such as transportation, shopping, and companionship.
4. Chronic illness or disability ? Volunteer services are provided for people with long-term health problems.
5. Homebased ? The spirit of the program is to serve the community at large.  The primary focus of service is where people reside.