Organizations bring resources to the community as part of Mobile Mission Monday

OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — Organizations brought their resources and information directly to those that needed it Monday as part of Mobile Mission Monday. The Goodwill Central Oklahoma set up downtown with a one-stop shop with several organizations ready to connect with the community.

"Most people don't even know what their local nonprofit does,” Goodwill Central Oklahoma’s Community Outreach Liaison Kimberly Conyer said. “So, we want people to come out and find out."

Around 30 vendors and multiple mobile units parked in a downtown lot near the Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark for the event. Everybody from the regional foodbank, boys and girls clubs, health-care organizations and more.

"We're always needed, especially with all the funding being cut,” Conyer said. “We're even more and more necessary now than ever."

"All these resources in one in one place, it's very good,” Jasmine Wesley, a case manager with the City Rescue Mission, said.

Wesley is a case manager, along with her co-worker Sharelle Wolfe, with the City Rescue Mission. The organization is a nonprofit who helps people experiencing homelessness. They bussed some of their clients to the event. Both of them said the impact something like that has on people can’t be understated.

"It's hard to reach out for help if they don't know about it. It makes a huge difference, an impact on someone's life,” Wolfe said.

"Everybody's just one step away from being in this situation,” Wesley said speaking about homelessness and trying times.

The event was from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Conyer said they plan to have their next Mobile Mission Monday at Oklahoma City Community College in the first week of November. Then, they want to have another one in the northeast part of the city next spring.