Frequently Asked Questions
What is the mission and purpose of Compassion for Others (CFO Ministries)?
Our mission is to help improve the quality of life for those who are disadvantaged and having needs. The purpose and mission of CFO Ministries is founded upon Biblical Scripture in Matthew 22:37-40. In this passage of Scripture we are all instructed, to love the Lord first, and then to love our neighbors as we love ourselves. We believe that our lives should reflect the love of Christ who lives in the hearts of every believer.
Is CFO Ministries a church organization?
The members of the CFO Board, the Director and those who volunteer to serve with CFO Ministries attend various churches and places of worship in their own communities. We each believe in the importance of CFO Ministries mission and purpose. The donations received by CFO Ministries provide the funding for the various projects and events. Gifts are tax-deductible as permitted by law. CFO Ministries is registered as a 501(c)3 nonprofit with the IRS. More information about Compassion for Others (CFO Ministries) and a copy of our license/authority to operate is available from the North Carolina Secretary of State Office, Raleigh, NC.
How may I support and participate in the work of CFO Ministries?
- First, and foremost, we desire your prayers for the work of this ministry. Please, pray specifically that God will direct and lead us as we serve in various ways, and that what we do will always be for His glory.
- Secondly, you may volunteer and serve with us at different events. Please contact us about opportunities to serve.
- Thirdly, you may participate with us through financial giving to support the work of this ministry. Your donations will serve various project needs of CFO Ministries. Gifts may be monetary or in-kind gifts for a specific event use. We are always grateful for your support. Donations to Compassion for Others (CFO Ministries) are tax-deductible as permitted by law. Should you have any question regarding a donation you are considering, please feel free to reach out to us. Contact us.
North Carolina Flood Relief
Donations that CFO Ministries receives for the NC Flood Relief provide support and assistance to families recovering from storm damage. CFO Ministries is visiting various areas in NC to offer help. We prayerfully consider how to best serve those who were affected. We recognize needs are different and will continue for some time. Some individuals impacted live in areas more difficult to access. If you are considering a donation to CFO to help, may we recommend a monetary gift or a gift card that will purchase groceries. These are helpful as CFO reviews how we can best serve and help an area of WNC. Monetary donations may purchase food, clothing, daily essential needs or help with the need for repairs of damage. One-hundred percent (100%) of each gift will be used to help those in WNC. Donation gifts may be mailed to CFO Ministries or sent to us by using the link directing you to PayPal.
What is Compassion4Ukraine?
In March 2022, Compassion for Others began a humanitarian arm of this ministry dedicated to help serve the needs of our neighbors in Ukraine. Our mission arm is called Compassion4Ukraine. CFO serves the needs of orphans, widows of fallen soldiers and help for refugees of the war. Our efforts have been in coordination with three boots-on-the-ground organizations, vetted and located in Ukraine, Poland and Romania. You may learn more about Compassion4Ukraine by using the link: www.cfomin.org/compassion4Ukraine
May I choose where my donation to Compassion for Others will serve ?
Yes, you may select a specific area. If desired, please write on your check in the memo section the project where you would like for your CFO donation to serve. Should you have any question, please contact us: info@cfomin.org .
Activities in 2025
- CFO Ministries held our 12th Annual Back-to-School event in August for children at The Children's Home, in Concord, NC. Friends at PDQ, Concord Mills provided a wonderful meal. After lunch, we sang worship and praise songs together. Children enjoyed water activities, fingernail painting and created crafts with beads. Children received school backpacks and Kohl's gift cards to shop for school clothes. Thanks, to many volunteers and to you our donors who provided a wonderful day for these children. A special thanks to Chick-fi-A Harrisburg, Freddy's Steak Burgers, PDQ and Wendy's for the gift certificates for the children. And, also to Chicken Salad Chick, Bad Daddy's and Long Horn Steaks for donating gift certificates for the house parents.
- CFO continues efforts to love on and help our neighbors hurting in Ukraine by providing funding for essential needs of the orphans and widows of the fallen soldiers. We do this through our vetted, boots-on-the-ground ministry partners.
- CFO shares the warmth with Love Bags during cold months when we encounter the needy and homeless.
- CFO locally, and on travels throughout WNC provide Love-snack bags to homeless we encounter and to police, fire and first-responders and those working to restore WNC.
- The CFO visits to WNC counties continue as we assist areas hard hit by Hurricane Helene last year. Some of the grocery stores still have not rebuilt. We provide canned goods, clothing, blankets and grocery gift cards for many struggling. We participated in a soup kitchen event in February. Many support CFO Ministries: Kohl's Stores, Food Lion, Harris-Teeter, Lowes Foods, Publix, Sam's Warehouse and Walmart Stores.
- CFO provided assistance to a family in the Graham, NC who were impacted by the Chantel Tropical Storm flooding in July, 2025.
- CFO efforts continue to provide help for our local neighbors in the Huntington Green Community with food and essentials.
Activities during 2024
- CFO Ministries with help from a local church in the Huntington Green community identified the needy families and served those providing essentials.
- Our 11th Annual Back-to-School Event was held in August for children at the NC Church of God Children's Home in Concord, NC. Lunch was provided for the event by our friends at PDQ. Children enjoyed face painting, water activities, and created individual crafts. Every child received a gift card to visit Kohl's and shop for school clothes. CFO also provided every child with a school backpack. Thank you to everyone who made this a memorable and special day for all the children.
- School backpacks were provided to the children of ten families identified to CFO Ministries as having needs in the Huntington Green community. Food Lion Stores joined along with CFO Ministries to provide each family with groceries.
- CFO has continued providing support through several boots-on-the-ground ministries in Ukraine and Romania. These vetted ministries have served as the hands and feet with CFO. They are serving the orphans, widows, refugee families of the war in Ukraine.
- CFO Ministries is serving those affected by Hurricane Helene in Western NC. CFO Ministries has participated with Brantley Oaks Community in providing essentials needs for a distribution point in Hendersonville; CFO donated space heaters and generator to points in Chimney Rock/Lake Lure; CFO assisted a local church in the Lake Lure area with the purchase of a Utility trailer prepared to provide disaster recovery. CFO has also served points in Newland and in Lansing, NC. Our efforts will continue into 2025.
Activities in 2023
- Our 10th Annual Back-to-School Event at the Children’s Home in Concord, NC, was a great success because of you!! The time began with shooting hoops in the campus gymnasium. Lunch was then provided by our friends at PDQ. Later children went outside to toss water balloons with volunteers and the smaller children played in the bouncy house. Children also created bead jewelry, did fingernail painting with volunteers. We enjoy this special time with every child and to let them know they are each loved greatly. An envelope from Compassion for Others is given to each child providing fun things to do off campus later with house parents. The envelope also includes a gift card for shopping at Kohl's for their new school clothes. The children are excited to see the different opportunities made possible for them because of you. Thank you to everyone who participated with CFO Ministries through support for this ministry. You are making a difference!!
- CFO provided help to the refugees in Ukraine and others who were displaced from their homes because of the war in Ukraine. CFO provided direct support through our vetted sources in Ukraine, Poland and Romania who are helping these with food, clothing, housing and life essentials.
- CFO received a large provision of food donated by a local grocer. Items were then shared in many ways. Food items were given to services providing assistance in low-income areas, teachers in our community schools, after-school programs, to our first-responders and supported several food pantries.
- CFO provided a family that resettled to the US from Afghanistan with food needs.
- In December, CFO Ministries provided help to six families in our community, each with different needs and experiencing difficult circumstances.
Activities during 2022
- CFO Ministries held our 9th Annual Back-to-School event to help children at the Children's Home in Concord, NC to prepare them with clothing needs for their return to school. Cottages where the children live were also provided with expressed needs.
- CFO for our 2nd year held a Cookie Distribution to the 46 K-5th grade school teachers at Carl A. Furr Elementary School to welcome back the 750+ students on their 1st day of school with Oreo cookies. This school is a Title 1 school located in Cabarrus County, NC
- Established the "Falcons-in-Need" program at Carl Furr Elementary School that will help students in need
- Assisted a local family whose home was severely damaged by fire
- In March, CFO established the mission arm "Compassion4Ukraine" to help Ukrainian refugees and those displaced due to the war with essential needs
- CFO is now serving with three vetted organizations in Ukraine, Poland and Romania by helping to provide needs of refugees and those displaced due to the war in Ukraine
- In December, CFO Ministries served 27 families within our local community. CFO provided food, clothing and essential items to needy families and to help relieve them of the financial burden associated with the purchase of those needs.
