Beginning in 1993, One Heart - Many Hands launched its first major public service effort in Indianapolis by recruiting more than 500 volunteers to focus their collective energies on more than 30 different service projects.
While many of our volunteers traveled to Indiana from across America (and even from other nations) to also serve that week as delegates at the General Assembly of the Church of the Nazarene, local residents also pitched-in by helping to plan projects, obtain necessary permits and by offering free labor. The fledgling One Heart - Many Hands service projects that year were an amazing success, yet we could not begin to imagine how this first trial run would grow into such a large-scale endeavor.
Over the course of 15 years, the number of volunteers and projects has continually grown. During that time we have completed three more major urban service projects in: San Antonio 1997, and again in Indianapolis in 2001 and 2005. We have also facilitated smaller efforts in: Philadelphia, Kansas City, Nashville, and Chiapas –Mexico.