Thinking about an end of year gift?
We need your help.
 
It's for the Southwestern Seminary at Darrington Penitentiary-- now in its 4th year.
Help us turn the prison's "Old Gym"
into the prison's "New Seminary" 
We have totally outgrown our current space!

We must have more room in 2015 for our four complete classes of Seminary Students:  Freshmen, Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors.  We're overflowing with students for the space we currently have.  Please help if you can!  Contributions must be postmarked by December 31, 2014, to be able to be counted for this year.  
Thank you!

Our progress is steady! But we really need your help. Time is of the essence, if we are to be able to move into the renovated Old Gym in 2015!   
Darrington Seminary began in 2011 as an historic step for the Texas prison system, the largest prison system in the United States.  Located within the maximum-security Darrington Penitentiary south of Houston, the Seminary began in the depths of a prison which had a history of gang activity, drugs and violence. The Heart of Texas Foundation is at the epicenter of the formation and funding of this new approach to penal reform.  Now in our fourth year of operation, we're out of class room space! We have reached our full complement of four complete classes of students all in class simultaneously, five days a week: freshmen, sophomores, juniors, and seniors. For our student body to have reached this size has taken us four years of successful operation.  

All four levels of these students meet simultaneously in their own separate (and crowded) classrooms with their own PhD professors, every day at the Southwestern Seminary at Darrington Penitentiary.  
 
With the help of our contributors, we have grown into a fully accredited, 4-year Seminary, and we're out of room in the old prison wing where we began.  We have been given "the old penitentiary gym," a virtually abandoned but solid building inside the prison grounds.  Once we renovate it, the "new" building will become perhaps the world's first building of its kind.  And we need your help!
 

 

We are an IRS approved 501(c)(3) Non-Profit Organization.  Make a tax-deductible gift and help turn the Old Gym into a New Seminary Building! 


How You Can Help...

  • Write a check for $25, $50, $200, $500 or more, payable to 
    "Heart of Texas Foundation, Building Renovation Fund" and mail to:  HOTF, POB 991, Fulshear, Texas 77441
     
  • Donate Using Paypal. You do NOT need a PayPal Account to do this.  Click here to use Paypal.
  • Use a Credit Card to donate over the phone.  Just call Stephanie at 832-600-4263.
     
  • If you wish to be a major donor, please allow us to properly recognize and direct your gift by calling Grove Norwood at 281-850-8103, or David Hanna, Chairman of the Board, at (713) 594-2858. 
The Story Behind Southwestern Seminary at Darrington's Renovation Project..read the Executive Summary

Thank you for considering The Heart of Texas!  Merry Christmas, and Season's Greetings!

Remember to have your donations postmarked by December 31, 2014 for this year.  

Grove Norwood, CEO
The Heart of Texas Foundation

 

  
CAPITAL CAMPAIGN GOAL: $2.5 MILLION
TO TURN THE "OLD GYM" INTO THE "NEW SEMINARY" 

We're up to about 30% of our goal (it's in cash and pledges) but we need it all in cash before Texas will allow us to begin the construction. We need more major donors! Please pray.
 

Donate and help us create the most unique school building anywhere in the United States.

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The Heart of Texas Foundation
P.O. Box 991
Fulshear, Texas 77441
281-850-8103