"Turning impossible situations

 into joyous celebrations" 

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     Whether we are offering our annual 

Community outreach  (we've got u covered), 

classes, computer labs or case management...   

 Hilltop Promises empowers families to strive for a life without drugs, homelessness or crisis.... 


Our holestic  RECOVERY PLUS PROGRAM 

 has proven to be  life changing by enabling our clients to become invested members 

in our community...  

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HILLTOP PROMISES-THE FROGS PLACE 

 

Changes Lives...   Healing Families...

Changing Our Community...

 

Since its inception, Hilltop Promises, an ALL-VOLUNTEER, GRASS  ROOTS agency, has been on the fore front of helping those in need in our community.  As an agency who believes there are strength in numbers, we  have continually welcomed partners to help provide the necessary services to those families in need...

 

As always we remain true to our mission...

 

 

We are a holistic social ministry program in the Metro Richmond area which provides recovery focused services that empowers families who are in crisis due to homelessness, minimally housed,
transitioning out of incarceration, or foster care, overcoming addiction or in crisis; to develop the employment and life skills necessary to transform their lives into invested members of our community. 

 

As continue to grow...  (look at our statistics page) going from a grassroots to a business model agency, we will remain ever faithful to those in need.  Continue to watch for changes... like those below...

 

 

 

 

Pharaoh's Closet

is now part of  RVA Cares inc  

 
Never did we realize when we started Pharaoh's Closet 6 years ago, that we would ever reach the 500,000 mark of clothes given to those in need. 
But not only we have met that mark, we have surpased it (see statistic page).

 

As we have moved to a business model, this immense program needs to remain part of us, but needs additional assistance to meet the ever growing needs isn our community. Therefore we are placing this program as part of the RVA CARESBy joining together in a partnership, we will be able to provide more effiecient and effective services. RVA Cares inc,  will provide the non-profit structure needed to receive donations, grants and other funding for the joint and individual services that will be offered.


 The mission of RVA Cares is:  


A non-profit umbrella agency designed  to connect small/medium community and faith-based programs in a partnership to ensure a more efficient and effective use of resources provided to families in crisis whose needs require a significant variety of  recovery services...

 

DO YOU HAVE A DESIRE TO

HELP THOSE IN  NEED IN OUR COMMUNITY?

 

 

ARE WILLING TO SHARE

YOUR HEART WITH OTHERS?

 

CALL US AT 804-519-8557

 

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WE WASH FEET...

 

"Humility is NOT submitting yourself to others as a slave, it is the ACT of giving freely of yourself to others.  

The first is where you are FORCED INTO ACTION 

with the resulting events providing little value for either the doer or the receiver.  

 The second is an INTENTIAL ACT

 that a person does to make the life of someone else better which because of the selfless act, benefits both parties..."                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 CPRamsey 2000

 

 

As we begun our work with families, it didn't take long for our team to realize that there was more than one issue, more than one illness, more than one family member in crisis.  It was then that we began working on developing our  Recovery Plus Program.  As a faith based program, we realized that we needed to start there as we begin the healing.  Which brings us to washing feet.


In John 15:22 of the Bible, it discusses Christ willingness to humble Himself before His appostles by washing their feet.  There was never any action that Christ provided that didn't have a purpose.  And this was no exception.  We are all in need of learning humility.  Not just with those we don't know, but more importantly with those we DO KNOW...  


Of course we are not suggesting that we should wash  feet literally...  the invention of shoes and socks has made that somewhat of a moot point.  What we are talking about is the heart...  and what we need to do to begin the process of recovery... Therefore the first step in anyones recovery is to be willing to serve others.  If all we ever think about is ourselves we become far more vunerable to bad behavior, drugs, mental health crisis and so much more.... after all it is all about us.... Right?  


 It is only when we start the process of puting other people's needs first, automaticallly, without hesitation, that we learn the real value of who we truly are and what we have to offer to ourselves, to our families and to society...  

                                                                                                                                 It is the starting point of healing....