Who We Are

Each day, Novo Ministries’ staff and volunteers encounter the negative influences that so often characterize the inner-city communities where the children we reach live. Many of the children attending our programs come from dysfunctional homes, where the traditional picture of a loving, happy family and an innocent childhood rarely exists. Instead, poverty, violence, crime, divorce, alcoholism, prostitution, and drug abuse are a reality in the lives of many of these children. For some of them – it’s the only reality they’ve ever known.

Novo Ministries seeks to connect passionate individuals, churches, and organizations with inner-city communities in the greater Oklahoma City area by helping facilitate weekly after-school programming in these communities. Regularly, the children of our Novo programs and the programs of our partners have the opportunity to build relationships with caring mentors who pour into their lives, share positive teaching, and who paint a picture of a reality that doesn’t have to end with jail, broken families, or gangs. We believe that the children and families in inner-city communities have many needs, but their greatest one is to experience hope and to find and fulfill the purpose for which they were created.

Our name, “Novo,” is a Latin word meaning “to change” or “to make new” and that truly is the essence of our vision: to bring real and lasting life-change to inner-city communities. We want to see lives transformed and communities restored from the inside out, one heart and one child at a time!