000Family Life Resource Center (FLRC or CRVF in French) is an 20-year old ministry which has been offering Christian counseling, parenting training, communications and leadership workshops, Sunday School training and prison outreach under the leadership of Founder/International Director, Rev. Theresa Cox, D.Min. The non-profit ministry is under the accountability of Full Gospel Fellowship of Ministers and Churches International/FGFMCI and Federation of Ministers and Churches International/FMCI both of which are headquartered in Dallas Texas. FLRC/ CRVF – Family Life Resource Center, is a 501(c)3 nonprofit registered with the IRS in the USA and registered for two years in DR Congo as a foreign nonprofit for development.

000In 1988, FLRC was primarily providing alternative Christian counseling, parenting training, communications and time management seminars. The vision expanded in 1995, with the development of Prison Prayer Partners, at Topeka Correctional Facility. PPP was the first team to offer water baptism in this maximum-security prison. Through prayer Theresa obtained a big metal horse trough located on the property. Sunday Prayer and Worship services, Baptism services, women's seminars, training in conflict/anger management, and matching prayer partners inside the prison with women outside the walls, were all part of the ongoing prison ministry for over 10 years. The work continues today as it was handed on to a local ministry.

000 Mission outreaches to Indian Reservations and Mexico to families living in garbage-dumps and to men in prison, began the international work of FLRC. Working with nationals and sometimes traveling with other teams, Theresa has ministered and trained God's people in over 19 nations including Israel, Switzerland, England, France, Spain, India, Bangladesh, Romania, Sri Lanka, Kenya and Gabon before establishing the work in French-speaking DR Congo in May 2002. FLRC began teaming with local Congolese and churches to feed over 60 street children, to provide numerous Bibles, books and blackboards for literacy classes in Lingala, to train over 200 Children's Ministry workers and to distribute over 300 seed packets to widows and abandoned women.

000 Congo projects are flourishing. In the five years completed, hundreds of children benefited from the children's ministry training. Over 60 street children were fed and given a Bible lesson in the four feeding sites. Over 300 seed packets were distributed and are growing well. These seeds are durable for the tropics and are high protein. Our project to assist widows partners with two nonprofits in Kinshasa lead by well-educated women who are strong Spirit-filled Christians. To date FLRC/CRVF has assisted over 32 widows to start or to expand their small businesses in order to provide for their children. This is a critical component of our work with orphans and street children–stopping the hemorrhage to the streets because the children are hungry due to various difficulties and war!

000 The second year transitioned the feeding sites into a home for the street boys FLRC was feeding. David's House of Refuge began in January, 2004 with 24 boys. Some of the older boys would not accept the discipline and structure and 8 boys were returned to their families – not true street children. The Home was a blend of a private home and a boarding school. The main Home had 15 boys and two older boys at one small extension home. David's House of Refuge due to various difficulties had to dismantle for this season and the children are cared for in individual Family Homes where they are a viable part of the family they live with. All expenses are paid by FLRC and they attend private school.

000 Kenya Projects are just beginning as FLRC expanded into Kenya in early February 2006. FLRC partners with a large local church in Nakuru to provide programs for women in prison and assist widows in starting small micro-enterprises. We assist in paying fines of widows who are in prison primarily because they made an illicit brew or killed a wild animal–in order to find a means to feed their children who were starving. Babies and toddlers stay with their mothers in these difficult conditions.

000 Our goal is to get them released and to set them up in a small business so that they can support their children and not repeat the offense. The women also attend the local church co-sponsoring this project with us, receiving discipleship training and supervision through the Women's Ministry. In its beginning stages, 14 widows have been able to start micro-enterprises and over 11 women have been released from prison.

000 The plan for Kenya includes establishing Discipleship Institute in the local church in order to train leaders and to equip ALL the saints to bring the Good News followed by signs, wonders, and miracles as spoken about in Mark 16 of the Holy Bible.