GET INVOLVED · FOUR WAYS IN
Bring what you already know how to do.
Four different conversations happen on this page. Find the one that is yours — a person, a church, an institution, or a ministry that needs a legal home.
Volunteer, mentor, or speak.
You don't leave your church to join SWAT — your church is your station. Tell us three things and a real person calls you back, usually within the week.
Sign-up form coming soon. In the meantime, reach out through Contact and a real person will get back to you within the week.
Partner with us.
A partnership is a working agreement between congregations, not a logo exchange. Your church becomes a station: we bring trained teams and specialists, you keep the relationships that outlast the deployment.
Fifteen Houston congregations currently partner with us across both branches — Baptist, Pentecostal, non-denominational, and Hispanic churches. Nobody is asked to change their doctrine, their calendar, or their leadership structure.
WHAT WE BRING
Trained teams matched to a need you name
Specialists: nurses, trades, notaries, filmmakers
SWIFT response when your neighborhood floods
Healing programs run in your building, in your language
WHAT WE ASK
A named contact who can answer a phone
Permission to serve, not to recruit your people
Honesty about what your church cannot cover
A hand-back: you keep every relationship
We never plant a competing congregation, and we never keep a relationship that belongs to your pastor.
15 PARTNER CHURCHESGovernment & institutional partnerships.
We work alongside county emergency management, hospital systems, school districts, corrections, and social-service agencies — with documentation, insurance, and named points of contact. Faith-based does not have to mean informal.
Every agreement is written, every volunteer in a regulated setting is screened and trained to the standard that setting requires, and we report on what we said we would do.
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
Harris County OEM
Staging coordination and situational briefings during storm activations.
EDUCATION
HISD campuses
Counselor-led supply, uniform, and shoe requests across three campuses.
HEALTH SYSTEMS
Hospital chaplaincies
Badged visitation rotations at two Houston hospital systems.
CORRECTIONS
TDCJ volunteer services
Cleared in-facility programs and a release-day re-entry pipeline.
Tell us a bit about your organization.
One form for churches, agencies, and sponsors — pick the option closest to you below.
Fiscal sponsorship.
We sponsor projects that align with our mission and objectives. We carry the 501(c)(3) status, the accounting, and the donation receipts while they grow. Two parts: apply, or look at who is already under the roof.
PART ONE · APPLY
Four steps, about six weeks.
Tell us what you are building
A page or two: who it serves, who leads it, and what the next twelve months look like.
A conversation, not a pitch
Two board members and our attorney meet you. Questions go both directions.
Written agreement
Scope, reporting, restricted-fund handling, and how either side can end it.
Your project page goes live
Your own detail page in the showcase, with a donate block if you need one.
WHAT SPONSORSHIP INCLUDES
You keep the calling. We keep the paperwork.
An administrative fee of 8% of restricted gifts covers accounting, receipting, and audit. It is disclosed on every project page.
READY TO APPLY?