The Simmons and Fletcher Local Missions Podcast

 On Meet Houston Missions and The Simmons and Fletcher Local Missions Podcast, your host, Paul Cannon, talks with Holly Odogwu, the Co-Founder and CEO of Autism Meets Faith. Autism Meets Faith was founded in 2021 when Holly’s daughter was diagnosed with autism at only four years old. After the diagnosis, Holly became aware of four key barriers for children on the autism spectrum and the families r...

 On Meet Houston Missions and The Simmons and Fletcher Local Missions Podcast, your host, Paul Cannon, talks with Christa Freyhof, the Executive Director of Freedom Church Alliance . Freedom Church Alliance was founded in 2013 to guide churches in the battle against human trafficking as they pray, give, and volunteer with frontline, gospel-centered ministries. The mission has over 35 churches acro...

 On Meet Houston Missions and The Simmons and Fletcher Local Missions Podcast, your host, Paul Cannon, talks with Jiya Joshi, the Founder and Executive Director of Young and Old United (YOU). Young and Old United was founded after Jiya’s grandmother passed away in 2024, leaving an emotional void in her life. To fill that void, Jiya began volunteering weekly at a memory care facility and quickly fo...

 On Meet Houston Missions and The Simmons and Fletcher Local Missions Podcast, your host, Paul Cannon, talks with Miranda Corn, the Executive Director for the Texas Gulf Coast Refuge for Women . Refuge for Women was founded in 2009 when the founder, Ked Frank, recognized that despite there being over 100,000 victims of sexual trafficking in the U.S., there were fewer than 1,000 beds for long-term...

 On Meet Houston Missions and The Simmons and Fletcher Local Missions Podcast, your host, Paul Cannon, talks with Carlos Piñero, the Program Manager of Adult & Teen Challenge of Texas’ Houston Men’s Recovery Center. The Adult & Teen Challenge of Texas’s Houston Men’s Recovery Center provides residential, faith-based programs for men to overcome addiction, transform their lives, and rehabil...

In this episode of Meet Houston Missions and the Simmons and Fletcher local missions podcast, we meet Megan Langham, the founder and president of Society Prosper. Society Prosper is a Katy, Texas mission, founded in 2020 for the purpose of breaking the cycle of child abuse and neglect.  Society Prosper helps to provide funding and guidance so that children who are survivors of child abuse and negl...

On this episode of the Simmons and Fletcher Local Missions Podcast, your host, Paul Cannon, talks with Andrea McClairne, the founder of JJ’s Home of Refuge 3:16 . JJ’s Home of Refuge 3:16 was started in 2023 when Andera McClairne felt a calling from God to support, teach, and empower young women leaving the foster care system. The mission is based in the greater Houston area and provides assistanc...

This episode of Meet Houston Missions features Bill Nash, the co-founder of Building Bridges of Hope. Building Bridges of Hope was founded 43 years ago after Bill’s son was miraculously healed from cancer. It is a music-driven mission that seeks to help children overcome difficult lifetime events. They have two primary mission events today—Champions Kids Camp and Texas Best Music Fest. Champions K...

On this episode of Meet Houston Missions and The Simmons and Fletcher Local Missions Podcast, Paul Cannon talks with Quincy Collins, founder of Families Helping Families. In 2013, Quincy and some friends helped out one family within his church that was struggling at Thanksgiving. From this, a vision was born with the goal of feeding as many families in need as possible in the Greater Houston area....

On Meet Houston Missions and The Simmons and Fletcher Local Missions Podcast, your host, Paul Cannon, talks with Nicole Davis, the executive director of Operation: Achieve Independence . Operation: Achieve Independence was started in 2017 when its founder, Tina James, felt a calling from God to create a non-profit organization intended to help young adults preparing to leave or who have already le...

This is a rerelease of the original video produced when Susan Leining, a/k/a Cookies for a Cause, came to the offices of Simmons and Fletcher to teach her cookie decorating classes as a way to raise money for Alzheimer’s research and awareness.  Cookies for a Cause by Susan is a mission to raise money to fight Alzheimer’s and bring awareness to the community about this illness. Through baking cook...

This episode of Meet Houston Missions features Ryan Kreipe, the Manager of Braes Interfaith Resale Store & IT Director for Braes Interfaith Ministries.  Braes Interfaith Ministries serves the needs of the southwest side of Houston providing food and clothing for less fortunate people as well as clothing for people transitioning from prison back to the workforce. They operate a food pantry at W...

This episode of The Simmons and Fletcher Local Missions Podcast features Mark Brown, CEO of West Houston Assistance Ministries (WHAM). WHAM is a place of hope and respite for those in need. By providing responsive support through short-term assistance with food, rent, utilities, disaster relief, seasonal programs (eg. Thanksgiving and Christmas Meals), as well as access to education/employment res...

In this episode, we revisit Melinda Stephenson, the Executive Director of Clothed by Faith. Our original visit with her took place on November 19, 2021, when we were only doing Zoom episodes. We rereleased the episode in April of 2024 as a podcast and have since learned that Clothed by Faith has grown exponentially in the past 3 years as a mission that provides 1 week's worth of clothing to p...

Ron Peters, the Executive Director of Katy Responds, talks with us about the various disasters for which they have provided recovery assistance in this Episode of Meet Houston Missions. Katy Responds is a nonprofit organization that restores homes destroyed or damaged by disaster by seeking funding and then coordinating the work with local volunteers and staff.  They serve homeowners primarily in...

In this episode of Meet Houston Missions, we meet Mark Martin, the Vice President of Community Engagement for Big Brothers Big Sisters Lone Star--an organization that aims to build relationships between mentors adults, and children in grades K through 12 that will empower the little brothers and sisters to reach their full potential in life. They do this by screening and training big brothers and...

In this episode, Paul Talks to Amanda L. Payne, the Developmental Director for Walk MS.  Walk MS is one of the two main fundraising organizations for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.  The second one is the Texas MS150. Simmons and Fletcher, P.C., has been privileged to be a part of Walk MS Houston and the Texas MS 150 in several capacities, from entering teams, sponsoring teams, and sponso...

In this episode of Meet Houston Missions, we meet with Shauna Huffington, the Campaign Development Director for the Texas Gulf Coast Region of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. The Leukemia Society was founded in 1949 by the parent of Robbie Roesler de Villiers, a young man who was taken by Leukemia in 1944 at the age of 16. It was later renamed the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society or LLS. Today,...

In Episode 1 of Meet Houston Missions, we hear from Julie Malin, the South Texas Director for Heroes for Children.  Heroes for Children is a registered 501c3 non-profit organization that advocates for and provides financial and social assistance to families with children (0-22 years of age) battling cancer.  Since 2004, Heroes for Children has provided $6.5 million to over 6,600 Texas families in...

On Meet Houston Missions and The Simmons and Fletcher Local Missions Podcast , your host, Paul Cannon, talks with Bob Patton, the executive director of Fulshear Outreach and Development Corporation D/B/A Family Hope Fulshear. Family Hope Fulshear started in 2014 when a group of pastors and community leaders came together to address the need for family services in the Fulshear-Simonton areas.    Fa...

On this episode of Meet Houston Missions and the Simmons and Fletcher Local Missions Podcast,  Bobbie Mark, the Executive Director of Redeemed Ministries, discusses how they have helped over 150 women escape from the bonds of human trafficking . Since 2010, Redeemed Ministries has operated one of the longest-running safe houses for victims of human trafficking in the United States. They work with...

On Meet Houston Missions and The Simmons and Fletcher Local Missions Podcast, your host, Paul Cannon, talks with Allison Meier Madrigal, the founder and CEO of Rescue America. Rescue America started as Rescue Houston in 2014 and, in 2019, experienced such an outpouring of nationwide need for its services that it rebranded as Rescue America.  They are now based out of Denver, Colorado, but their hu...

Today's guest on Meet Houston Missions & The Simmons and Fletcher Local Missions Podcast is Lea Byrd, the Mobilization Manager, for The Landing. The Landing is an organization dedicated to “walking alongside of victims of human trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation .” They are located on Bissonnett Street in Houston, Texas in an area where human trafficking is a known problem. Dr...

In this episode of Meet Houston Missions & The Simmons and Fletcher Local Missions Podcast, meet Briana McCulloch, Executive Director of the Kailee Mills Foundation. The Kailee Mills Foundation was formed in 2017 to spread awareness of the importance of always wearing your seatbelt while riding in a vehicle at any speed to any place since you never know when a car accident might occur. The Kai...

In this episode of Meet Houston Missions & The Simmons and Fletcher Local Missions Podcast, hear from Barry Hart, the Executive Director of Tomball Emergency Assistance Ministries, a/k/a T.E.A.M. Mr. Hart tells us how T.E.A.M. partners with local businesses to serve low income, individuals and families that live in the Tomball area or are members at T.E.A.M. sponsor churches. Missions Projects...