Upcoming Events
WLA Men’s Prayer Team
We Love Abilene provides financial assistance to families and individuals experiencing crisis in our community. As part of our intake process, we offer the opportunity to take prayer requests as many are walking through difficult situations. Join us as we pray over these requests and offer notes of encouragement to our neighbors!
WLA Women's Prayer Team
We Love Abilene provides financial assistance to families and individuals experiencing crisis in our community. As part of our intake process, we offer the opportunity to take prayer requests as many are walking through difficult situations. Join us as we pray over these requests and offer notes of encouragement to our neighbors!
Foster Care/Adoption Support Group
We Love Abilene offers a support group for foster, kinship, and adoptive families on the third Sunday of each month at 9:40 AM in the conference room. Childcare is available through The Well’s Kids Ministry. Additionally, a support group for biological siblings (ages 10 and up) is also held during this time. If you would like to learn more about our support groups, please email wla@thewellabilene.com for more information!
Taylor County Throwdown GRIND
TCT Grind is a fundraising fitness event benefiting We Love Abilene. The goal of GRIND is to raise funds for WLA and help neighbors in our community. GRIND combines running and functional movements to test a participant's strength, endurance, and speed.
CarePack Night
During a CarePack night, the community comes together to pack weekend food bags for schools in our area to pass out over the next two weeks. We would love for you to join this night and help make a impact on students in need in our community.
Foster Care/Adoption Support Group
We Love Abilene offers a support group for foster, kinship, and adoptive families on the third Sunday of each month at 9:40 AM in the conference room. Childcare is available through The Well’s Kids Ministry. Additionally, a support group for biological siblings (ages 10 and up) is also held during this time. If you would like to learn more about our support groups, please email wla@thewellabilene.com for more information!
WLA Men’s Prayer Team
We Love Abilene provides financial assistance to families and individuals experiencing crisis in our community. As part of our intake process, we offer the opportunity to take prayer requests as many are walking through difficult situations. Join us as we pray over these requests and offer notes of encouragement to our neighbors!
WLA Women's Prayer Team
We Love Abilene provides financial assistance to families and individuals experiencing crisis in our community. As part of our intake process, we offer the opportunity to take prayer requests as many are walking through difficult situations. Join us as we pray over these requests and offer notes of encouragement to our neighbors!
March Baby Shower
Each month, We Love Abilene volunteers come together to celebrate local teen mothers and their babies, offering love, support, and encouragement.
Foster 325 Agency Fair
Are you looking to make a difference in a child’s life? Attend this come-and-go event to learn more about becoming a foster parent. Meet local placement agencies and ask all of your questions.
Foster Care/Adoption Prayer & Support Group
We Love Abilene offers a support group for foster, kinship, and adoptive families on the third Sunday of each month at 9:40 AM in the conference room. Childcare is available through The Well’s Kids Ministry. Additionally, a support group for biological siblings (ages 10 and up) is also held during this time. If you would like to learn more about our support groups, please email wla@weloveabilene.com for more information!
WLA Men’s Prayer Team
We Love Abilene provides financial assistance to families and individuals experiencing crisis in our community. As part of our intake process, we offer the opportunity to take prayer requests as many are walking through difficult situations. Join us as we pray over these requests and offer notes of encouragement to our neighbors!
WLA Women's Prayer Team
We Love Abilene provides financial assistance to families and individuals experiencing crisis in our community. As part of our intake process, we offer the opportunity to take prayer requests as many are walking through difficult situations. Join us as we pray over these requests and offer notes of encouragement to our neighbors!
Habitat for Humanity Work Day
We Love Abilene will be partnering with Habitat for Humanity for a work day on the morning of February 8. Depending on building timeline, the work day will include painting and/or framing. Little to no experience is expected! All participants should be 16 or older.
WLA + Habitat for Humanity Work Day
We Love Abilene will be partnering with Habitat for Humanity for a work day on the morning of January 11. This work day will include painting and potentially a small amount of interior framing. Little to no experience is expected!
Click HERE to register!
The Well Gift Shop
We Love Abilene is partnering with Communities In Schools and AISD Homeless Ministry for the second annual The Well Gift Shop! The Well Gift Shop provides an opportunity for the families of at-risk and homeless youth at Abilene Middle Schools to purchase low cost gifts for their entire family.
We will be asking regular attenders of the Well to donate gifts for families to purchase at a cost of $3 each. All money raised will go back to AISD Homeless Ministries to fund needs within our partner organizations.
Volunteers are needed to make Gift Shop a success! We will need adult volunteers willing to be paired with our families as a shopping partner & adults and families willing to be our wrapping “elves” and greeters. Everyone is encouraged to wear their most festive Christmas gear and make this event fun for everyone! Volunteer groups will be broken into three time slots: 8:30-10:30am, 10am-12pm, 11:30am-1:30pm.
Respite Afternoon
The Well's Accessible Inclusion Ministry (AIM) and We Love Abilene are hosting a time of respite on Saturday, December 7th from 1-4pm! Our goal is to give our parents a time to rest and reconnect while their kids have tailored activities and events planned for them. Any individual with special needs and their siblings through 8th grade are invited! We are also excited to invite and utilize this time for respite care for any of our foster, adoption, or single-parent families!
Ready Set Glow 5K
The READY SET GLOW RUN 5K is more than just a run-it’s a way to celebrate our light in Abilene and learn more ways to love our community! Sign up before September 28 to guarantee your glow gear!
Care Pack Packing Night
On CarePack nights community volunteers come together with Love & Care Ministries to assemble food "packs" for local schools to give to students facing food insecurity. We would love for you to join this night and help make an impact on students in need in our community!
Foster 325 Babysitter Training
Start the process for becoming a certified respite provider by learning CPR and first aid through this training!
**This training will not complete your certification, but will help you complete some of the steps.
Care Pack Packing Night
During a CarePack night, the community comes together to pack weekend food bags for schools in our area to pass out over the next two weeks. Weekend food bags ensure that students facing food insecurities do not go without food during times school food options are not available (like weekends and holidays). Every year, Love and Care Ministries passes out over 55,000 bags to students in Abilene ISD and 9 additional local school districts.
We would love for you to join this night and help make a impact on students in need in our community. The Well has reserved 35 spots for this event and will be joining others from around our community. Please register everyone that will attend so we can have an accurate count!
Please send any questions to sarah@thewellabilene.com.
We Learn Abilene - Session 2
This event will center around homelessness in Abilene and Taylor County and ways The Well can make an impact in this area. We will listen to experts in the field and participate in a small service project all from our facility!
Care Pack Packing Night
During a CarePack night, the community comes together to pack weekend food bags for schools in our area to pass out over the next two weeks. Weekend food bags ensure that students facing food insecurities do not go without food during times school food options are not available (like weekends and holidays). Every year, Love and Care Ministries passes out over 55,000 bags to students in Abilene ISD and 9 additional local school districts.
We would love for you to join this night and help make a impact on students in need in our community. The Well has reserved 35 spots for this event and will be joining others from around our community. Please register everyone that will attend so we can have an accurate count!
Please send any questions to sarah@thewellabilene.com.
Foster 325 Babysitter Training
Start the process for becoming a certified respite provider by learning CPR and first aid through this training!
**This training will not complete your certification, but will help you complete some of the steps.
Teen Mom Mentorship Training
This will be the first informational meeting/training for WLA's new teen mom mentorship program. This program will expand our current ministry of offering baby showers to this demographic, so that these sweet moms can have additional support if requested following their shower.
We would love for our experienced moms within the church to get involved and love our neighbors well through intentional, supportive relationship.
We Learn Abilene - Foster Care
We Learn Abilene is a series of sessions designed to bring awareness and training to people of The Well about different topics and demographics in Abilene.
Our first event will center around foster care in Abilene and Taylor County, Foster 325, and ways The Well can make an impact in these areas. We will listen to experts in the field, families doing the work and participate in a small service project all from our facility!
Childcare and dinner will be provided! We have a limited number of spaces available so make sure to register!
Steps Mentorship
Steps is a biblically-based discipleship program offering healing, recovery, and freedom from any type of struggle.
They are having an open invitation on the evening of January 15 to anyone interested in mentoring men and women going through this program.
If you are Interested, please contact We Love Abilene at wla@thewellabilene.com
The Well Gift Shop
We Love Abilene is partnering with Communities In Schools and AISD Homeless Ministry for the second annual The Well Gift Shop.
The Well Gift Shop provides an opportunity for the families of at-risk and homeless youth at Mann and Clack Middle Schools to purchase low cost gifts for their entire family.