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Join us in praying for Oak Cliff as this neighborhood experienced a five-alarm fire at a large apartment complex. With many injuries and an unknown number of fatalities, this community is hurting. Pray for those who have lost everything, lost friends and loved ones, and who are fighting for recovery from this devastating fire. Please pray for the community to rally around this neighborhood and be the hands and feet of Jesus to all in need.

We appreciate the ultimate sacrifice made so that we can experience and enjoy the freedoms we have today. We hope your Memorial Day was one spent cherishing loved ones and remembering those who have given everything so we can live freely.

"Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one's life for one's friends" John 15:13

Act is deeply grateful to receive a $30,000 grant from the Texas Bar Foundation! Their continued partnership will support a new civil justice initiative to hold the owners of crime-enabling commercial properties accountable and restore safety for vulnerable neighborhoods. This project is novel because it extends a proven civil justice model—traditionally applied to residential properties—into the commercial property context.

Since its inception in 1965, the Texas Bar Foundation has awarded more than $30 million in grants to law-related programs. Supported by members of the State Bar of Texas, the Texas Bar Foundation is the nation's largest charitably-funded bar foundation.

Thank you, , for investing in a safer and more just future!

Happy Valentine's Day from your friends at Act! We are grateful for you and the ways you seek out loving your neighbor - every day of the year. Join us in making a special effort to use your freedom to love and serve a neighbor today!

Dust off your boots and join us for one of the most fun nights in Fort Worth! 🤠✨

Act is bringing the community together for Safest Stockyards on Friday, April 24 at the iconic Hotel Drover. It’s sure to be an unforgettable evening with live music, a lively auction, great company, and the perfect excuse to finally wear that western outfit you didn’t get to show off during rodeo season.

This year’s event is proudly led by Co-Chairs Anna & Travis Patterson and Kelly & David Stocker, who need your help to make this one of the most impactful nights of the year by purchasing one of the remaining sponsorships! Swipe to see which sponsorships are still available and some of the fun from last year ➡️

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Act is a Christian legal organization working to make neighborhood safety a normal reality for everyone. For 17 years in Dallas – and Fort Worth for 4 years now at the invitation of the Fort Worth Police Department – Act has partnered with brave families, law enforcement, and pro bono attorneys to shut down dangerous drug houses using the civil justice system.

So far, Act has helped close 282 drug houses (23 in Fort Worth alone), positively impacting more than 40,000 neighbors living nearby. It’s an innovative, collaborative approach that’s changing lives and restoring communities across our city.

Come celebrate the impact, support safer neighborhoods, and enjoy a high-energy night at the Drover in a room full of people who care about Fort Worth. Sponsorships are limited and moving quickly – now is the time to secure your spot and be part of this incredible event.

🎟️ Join us + view sponsorship opportunities: www.actforjustice.org/safest-stockyards-2026

Today is National Freedom Day, annually celebrated on February 1st to mark the end of slavery. In the year of America's 250th birthday, what better time than to celebrate this! The day honors the signing by Abraham Lincoln of a joint House and Senate resolution that later became the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. President Lincoln signed this monumental Amendment outlawing slavery on February 1, 1865.

We invite you to take a moment to celebrate the freedom we have today and this turning point in our country, taking steps to recognize the truth shared in Genesis 1:27 about all human beings made in God's image: "So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them."

As a final Note of Shalom in our series, we are so, so grateful for you! Please see a note of encouragement from a former client. May their words of encouragement be true of us all this year.

"For a community to thrive, it takes a village, just like raising a child, it takes a village. It takes everybody taking ownership of their own neighborhood and reaching out to everything beside them, in front of them and behind them because we're all that village. So we need to recognize that and come together to do whatever we can do to make our world, our community, our existence better."

HAPPY NEW YEAR 🎉

As we close the chapter on 2025, we want to say thank you for walking alongside us this year. Your partnership—through prayer, presence, and generosity—has helped bring peace and the opportunity to flourish to homes, streets, and neighborhoods across Dallas–Fort Worth.

As we step into 2026, we invite you to intentionally consider how you will invest your time, talent, and treasures to love your neighbors. This is the work of building God’s Kingdom rather than chasing the comforts, convenience, and successes of this world.

Thank you for helping make 2025 a year of transformation, and for joining us on this journey in 2026. May the New Year be filled with hope, courage, and the joy of seeing God’s Kingdom come in our community.

On the last day of 2025, here is a note that is truly an encouragement to us and all who invest in the safety of our neighbors:

"I just wanted to say thank you very much for everything you’ve done. The tide has finally turned in my neighborhood. It has literally taken years, but my street is finally being rid of the nuisance caused by all the drug dealers, pushers, and drug houses.

Y’all are a part of that. I’ve suffered many personal costs along the way as well — que sera.

Y’all are a great example of an exemplary Christian institution that actually walks the walk. I’m not a Christian myself, but I know it when I see it."

Light is shining brightly in dark places, and we can't do this alone! This is God’s calling to love our neighbors—and it’s work we can only do together.

Right now, every gift made by midnight tonight will be doubled through a generous $100,000 challenge gift. Your generosity will go twice as far to bring peace back to families, neighborhoods, and communities currently living in fear. What better way to close out the year than with an act of selflessness in loving your neighbor?

Make a Commitment to Safety today.
Peace, safety, and flourishing don’t happen by accident—they’re built day by day, through trust, presence, and persistence. Your gift helps make that transformation possible.

www.actforjustice.org/donate