Community Services

Adventist Community Services (ACS) is the humanitarian agency of the Seventh-day Adventist Church that works in the United States and Bermuda. There are more than 70 active locations in the Texas Conference.   Nationwide, ACS works in over 852 localities in more than 200 cities. The motto of ACS is:  Serving Communities in Christ's Name.

Community Services provides an opportunity to reach out to your community as representative of Christ and meet physical, mental, and emotional needs.   Adventist Community Services gives opportunity for volunteers to help meet those needs - physically, emotionally and socially. We do this through six areas: Community Development (ACS Centers), Disaster Response, Elder Care, Crisis Care, Youth Empowered to Serve (YES), and Tutoring and Mentoring.

As Christians, we need to follow Christ's example in meeting the needs of others. Ellen G. White stated: "Christ's method alone will give true success in reaching the people. The Savior mingled with men as one who desired their good. He showed His sympathy for them, ministered to their needs, and won their confidence. Then He bade them, 'Follow Me'." (MH 143) Consequently, it is absolutely appropriate and justified that when Jesus returns, according to Matthew 25:31-46, our eternal destiny will be consistent with our involvement or non-involvement in serving others, since this is what Jesus practices, commands and enables.