God put it on our hearts to show up for working families in Lawton-Fort Sill and across southwest Oklahoma. Food, a friendly face, and a hand up — for good people going through a hard stretch.
▶ Get Help NowNeighboring Hearts / Restoring Hearts Supporting Hands is neighbors helping neighbors. Plain and simple. We're not a big organization with a big staff and a big budget. We're people from the community who felt led to show up — and so we do.
Showing up. That's what neighbors do.
Working families are the backbone of Lawton-Fort Sill and southwest Oklahoma. They get up early. They do hard jobs — at the plant, on the base, on the farm, wherever the work is. And when a hard stretch hits — a layoff, an injury, a deployment that ends hard, something outside their control — there's not always somewhere to turn. We want to be somewhere to turn.
We bring food, groceries, and a friendly face. A home-cooked meal when we can manage it. Sometimes it's a bag of staples. Sometimes it's sitting with a tired mama so she can have a night off. Whatever our volunteers can show up with — that's what we bring. Good people who fell on hard times through no fault of their own deserve a neighbor who shows up. That's what we're here to be. No forms. No waitlist. Just neighbors.
Neighboring Hearts / Restoring Hearts Supporting Hands — 501(c)(3) — EIN 93-4976456
We show up. That's the mission. Here's what showing up looks like on any given week.
We get food to families who need it. Groceries, staples, a home-cooked meal when we can manage it. No eligibility test. You need food, we bring food.
A hard stretch doesn't have to mean going it alone. We walk alongside families while they find their footing. Whatever our volunteers can show up with — that's what we bring.
Sometimes it's a bag of groceries. Sometimes it's sitting with a tired mama so she can have a night off. We show up for people the way a good neighbor would.
We're not here for one Saturday. We're here. When the work slows, we don't stop. Steady neighbors, every season.
We bring what we've got. Every week.
We're Christians. That's the starting point. God put it on our hearts to do something for the working families in Lawton-Fort Sill and across southwest Oklahoma — the people who do hard jobs and still come up short sometimes, the families that got knocked down by something outside their control and don't have many places to turn.
So we did something. We're not a church. We didn't set out to build an organization. We're just a group of people who felt led to show up every week with groceries and a friendly face for neighbors going through a hard stretch. The Lord opened a door and we walked through it.
We're not here to preach at anybody. We're here because we believe it and we act on what we believe. Decent families who fell on hard times deserve a neighbor who shows up. That's the whole thing.
Good people going through a hard stretch. That's who we show up for.
Working families are the backbone of Lawton-Fort Sill and southwest Oklahoma. They get up and do the hard jobs. When something goes sideways — a layoff, an injury, a deployment that ends hard, a bad season — they deserve a neighbor who shows up. That includes the military and veteran families who gave a lot and sometimes come home to a hard stretch. No forms. No waitlist. We bring what we've got.
Lawton works hard. Fort Sill gives a lot. When something goes sideways for a family around here, we want to be somewhere they can turn.— Carol, Neighboring Hearts
We started small. A few of us from church in the Lawton area who felt led to do something for working families going through a hard stretch. We started bringing food to a family here, a bag of groceries there. Word got around the way it does in small communities. Pretty soon there were more families than we could handle on our own.
We knew we needed to get properly set up — do the paperwork, register the right way, all of that. None of us are especially good at that kind of thing. One of us has a niece — Amanda — who runs a nonprofit out in Colorado called Restoring Hearts Supporting Hands. We called her up and explained what we were trying to do. She helped us sort out the legal side of things, get set up properly, do it the right way.
That’s how Neighboring Hearts / Restoring Hearts Supporting Hands came to be. A group from church, a phone call to Amanda, and a whole lot of neighbors who said yes. We’re still not very big. We’re still figuring it out as we go. But we show up every week and we bring what we’ve got. That’s enough to start.
Contact: carol.neighboringhearts@gmail.com
If your family needs food or a hand up, just reach out. No intake form. No appointment. No eligibility quiz. Send us an email and we'll figure out how to help.
Good people who fell on hard times through no fault of their own deserve a neighbor who shows up. If that's you, we're here.
✉ Reach Out NowNeighboring Hearts / Restoring Hearts Supporting Hands runs on neighbors. If you want to volunteer, donate food, give a little money, or just show up and help — we'd love to have you.
You don't have to be organized about it. Neither are we. Just reach out and we'll find a way to put good people to good work.
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Showing up. That's what neighbors do.