Register Today for Trails n Rails!
Mark your calendar for Saturday, September 20th, and join us for Trails n Rails 2025—a day of connection, celebration, and community as we bike or walk the Towpath Trail and ride the CVSR train. Whether you’re a first-time rider or walker or a long-time supporter, your registration fuels the vital work of South Street Ministries, from RICH Kids programs to justice-impacted services and beyond.
Serve a Meal, Share Love
At South Street Ministries, sharing meals is central to loving our neighbors. We invite you, your small group, or friends to provide a meal for programs like Open Gym and ReDirection. By doing so, you help create a welcoming space where neighbors feel supported and loved. To get sign up and provide a meal, click below. Thank you for embodying Christ’s command to love our neighbors as ourselves.
See What Your Generosity Made Possible
Explore the lives changed and hope restored in our 2024 Annual Report
From reentry to youth mentorship, your support has empowered real transformation in South Akron and Summit Lake. Click below to view our 2024 Annual Report and celebrate all that we’ve accomplished together.
PRAY WITH US
Please pray with us! … and for us!
At South Street Ministries, we believe in the power of prayer, and we know there are many partners, families, and friends who regularly lift up our ministry and service in prayer.
Here’s how to pray for South Street Ministries specifically in 2025:
Thank you for your prayers and support!
Pray for the South Street staff — 2024 was a hard year internally with family loss, relational challenges, and the collective toll of violence and trauma. Pray that the staff and core team stay grounded in faith, in love, and in Christ.
Pray for further transformation! Every bike at Bike Shop is a chance to share and learn someone’s story. RICH Kids journeys with youth through grade-school development and formation. South Street Redirection Services walks with women and men as they transition from Reentry to restoration. Pray for God’s transformative work and Spirit in the lives of the hundreds of individuals and families impacted, served, and empowered through South Street Ministries!
Pray for Duane and Lisa Crabbs. Pastor Crabbs has returned to the Akron Fire Department — but is now serving in the role of Chaplain, ministering to both firefighters and victims of house fires. Duane is also working with other partners to address and abate issues of gun violence. Lisa Crabbs is planning her succession from 28 years of serving South Street administratively. Pray for God’s continued good, blessing, direction, and favor for the Crabbs family.
Pray for Bike Shop — we have some exciting visions and dreams of where (literally where) Bike Shop will go! Pray for the connections, support, and direction for the next steps and chapter of South Street’s Bike Shop ministry.
Pray that there is the love of God and the joy of Jesus! As South Street grows and labors, we want to stay centered in the steadfast love of God. Amid challenges, loss, and hardships, we want the joy of Jesus to be within our hearts — that we would consider it pure joy when we face and walk in trials of many kinds. And we want the stories of South Street to be stories intertwined and interwoven with the love of God!
Front Porch Community
Porch Light Coffee Co operates in the Front Porch space to do what they do best: provide an amazing coffee experience, welcome and engage people from all walks of life and serve the community, build relationships, and cultivate connection and beauty with others.
They are open Monday-Saturday 7am-3pm.
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