What We Do | Our Mission | Our History | Core Values | Board of Directors | Anick & Associates
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I hope you find helpful information and opportunities that will change your life and the lives of others. Whether you are looking for resources, a meaningful place to serve or desire change in your own life, you have found the right place to look. There are many needs in our community that alone we cannot meet, but with the combined effort of many committed partners like you, the possibilities for life change are endless. Join with us and our many partners as we pursue our mission of penetrating lives for lasting change!
Since 1987, The Milwaukee Outreach Center (TMOC) has been a catalyst in uniting churches and ministries to reach out to those in need of physical and spiritual help. We find creative and innovative means for healing and restoring our community.
Our programs and services bring lasting change into people’s lives through the life and teachings of Jesus.
Michael Rintelman
Executive Director
What We Do
We provide life skills and job readiness training, work adjustment programs and family counseling services for unemployed and under-employed people struggling with issues relating to poverty to move them to independence and self-sufficiency.
Our Mission
We mobilize people, churches, and ministries through Christ-centered training, counseling, and events to penetrate lives for lasting change.
Our History
Answer That Call
Even today you can find people throughout Milwaukee who will tell you what it was like to be a phone counselor in the early days of The Milwaukee Outreach Center. At that time, Pat Robertson’s broadcast of The 700 Club to Milwaukee included an invitation to call a local number. Phone counselors prayed with people, gave biblical advice, led callers to salvation, and then directed them to local churches.
The response from the city was both a call for spiritual help and physical assistance. . .
This created a need to organize a counseling and practical helps center for Milwaukee. In November of 1987 Bob Books and Jack Brown founded The Milwaukee Counseling Center and later in 1991 this was changed to The Milwaukee Outreach Center.
The Center gained a wide range of support from many individuals and churches throughout the community. Operation Blessing, the relief arm of The 700 Club, supplied many commodities and resources to assist people who were going through hard times. From the start, Jesus was the central message of hope for every person in Milwaukee.
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| Our early days began as a call in counseling center for the 700 Club. | ||
Over the years God has blessed this ministry…
The calls to The 700 Club are now answered in Virginia Beach, but our very dedicated staff of counselors carries on the work of counseling. Throughout the years thousands of forgotten people in the city have celebrated Thanksgiving and Easter at a banqueting table prepared for them by our friends and volunteers. And the commodities that once were so plentiful, have been replaced by programs that help people become healthy, caring, and responsible members of society.
Buildings have never been our focal point…
Our vision has always been people with the goal of directing them into a vital relationship with Jesus. We have carried out this vision from offices on Fond du Lac Avenue, Appleton Avenue, South Layton Boulevard, and now from West Mill Road. Each place has been a launching pad for the Holy Spirit to reach people and fill them with God’s love and power.
In August 2005 we moved from the south side of Milwaukee to the north side.
Two events from Jesus’ ministry have guided our history…
When Jesus miraculously fed four thousand people, He said: “I feel compassion for the people because they have remained with Me now three days and have nothing to eat” (Mark 8:2). We also have been moved by compassion as we have offered God’s mercy in Word and deed to our very needy city.
The other event that has guided us is the feeding of the five thousand. Jesus also felt compassion, but for a different reason. He said, “They were like sheep without a shepherd; and He began to teach them many things” (Mark 6:34). Compassion by itself results in pity and little change, but teaching actually penetrates lives for lasting change. Today our training and counseling programs empower people to seek truth from the Good Shepherd who promises abundant life to His followers.
In 1990 a graduate from Grace College became our Director of Helpline Ministries…
Mike Rintelman has stayed faithful to this ministry since that time and in 2002 he was named our Executive Director. Our future is bright. We are still answering that call so others can know God’s love and forgiveness, and experience lasting change.
Core Values
- We believe the Bible to be the inspired, the only infallible and authoritative Word of God. (II Tim. 3:16; II Peter 1:20-21)
- We believe that there is one God, eternally existent in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. (Matt. 3:16)
- We believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, His virgin birth, His sinless life, His miracles, His substitutionary atoning death through His shed blood, His bodily resurrection, His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and His personal return in power and glory. (Matt. 1:21-23, 3:17; John 12:37; Acts 1:9-11; Hebrews 4:15)
- We believe that for the salvation of lost and sinful man, regeneration by the Holy Spirit is absolutely essential. (Titus 3:5)
- We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit who dwells within the Christian, enabling him to live a godly life, empowering him to be a witness, and giving spiritual gifts for the common good of Christ’s body and all those served. (John 7:37-39; Acts 1:8; Gal. 5:22-23; I Peter 4:10; I Corinthians 12:4-7,11)
- We believe in the bodily resurrection of both the saved and the lost, those that are saved to the resurrection of eternal life, and those that are lost to the resurrection of eternal separation from God. (I Thes. 4:16-18; Rev. 20:11-15)
Board of Directors
- Richard Hansen, President
- Chad Wojtkow
- Larry Liebe
- Thom McMahan
- Ed Miller
- Bob Pawlak
- Michael Rintelman, Executive Director
Anick & Associates
The Milwaukee Outreach Center is a Not-for-Profit 501 (c) (3) organization. Contributions are deductible for Federal and State income tax purposes. We are not a private foundation, but one that is described in Section 509(a)(1) and 170 (b)(1)(A)(vi) of the Internal Revenue Code.
One of our highest duties is to maintain integrity and confidence with our donors. Anick & Associates oversees accounting responsibilities for The Milwaukee Outreach Center. Anick & Associates specializes in financial services for not-for-profit organizations. The Board of Directors provides careful oversight of all financial matters.