Ancora Ministries

09/05/2026

Our Level The Field shoe project was a little bit under the radar this year, but that didn't stop our amazing team from making it happen! This week, we provided 152 pairs of athletic shoes to local middle school coaches, to make sure that every kid who wants to compete in Athletics has the right footwear!

Middle school is hard enough. When you feel like you don't fit in, it's even harder. Level The Field is a way to remove one of the barriers to participation by making sure kids FEEL like they belong on the field or the court. Because they do!

Thank you to all of our generous partners who invested in our kids through Level The Field this year! And especially to the fearless superstar who leads the charge every year - Brigid Anderson!

09/04/2026

Pictures from our Preschool Nutrition Program in Campur, Altaverapaz, Gautemala. We love a lot about these pictures: Children receiving life-changing nutrition. Moms who are faithful in bringing their children to Weigh & Measure Day. And Iglesia Asamblea de Dios - La Puerta es Cristo, for raising up a team to partner with us to make the nutrition program happen every month. Community partnership: When we ALL come together to work toward transformation!

09/03/2026

We are celebrating the Grand Opening of our New Outpost on Wednesday, September 16th from 6-8pm and YOU are invited! Come tour our new space, enjoy some refreshments, and see our operation firsthand. We think you'll see why we are so excited!
RSVP at GiveButter.com/Ancora-Outpost.

09/02/2026

This "atol break" is brought to you by our School Lunch Program in El Sauce, Guatemala. Did you know that Ancora provides a hot, nutritious lunch to 50 children every day at the school kitchen you helped us build back in 2022? Atol, a hot porridge-y drink that is usually enriched with supplementary nutrients, is a common drink in Latin America, and pops up on our menu once or twice a week.

Here's your linguistics lesson for today: Guatemalan Spanish drops the "e" from certain words. For example, if your Spanish has its influence from Mexico, you probably say "atole," "tamale," and "guacamole." But in Guatemala, we say "atol," "tamal," and "guacamol." So, if you were thinking, "These jokers can't spell "atole" correctly," now you know we were just using a different dialect than you are used to.

Que chilero! (Which means, "That's cool!")

09/02/2026

It’s your Outpost Update, and we’re about to have 17 drivers come through here to distribute 1500+ weekend food bags to students at 50 schools, so that they will have enough to eat over the weekend!

We don’t think kids should go hungry. Thank you for believe that with us. Together, we are fighting hunger in Central Texas!
FeedKidsRightNow.com

09/01/2026

Last week, I (Trey) had the chance to tour one of our partner schools. It's one of our highest need schools - 93% of its 600+ students are classified as "economically disadvantaged." Currently, there are 150 students receiving a Feed Kids Right Now food bag every week, but that number is low, and we are working with the school to increase our support so that every hungry child who needs help on the weekends can receive it.

When we got to the school cafeteria, our host said something that I can't stop hearing. She said, "We have a group of students during each lunch period who help with table cleanup. We have a lot of kids who volunteer for this, because they look for uneaten food that got left on the table, to take with them."

Kids are foraging for food. At school. Right here in our communities. These are KIDS. They laugh, they play, they do the same things your kids do. And they aren't getting enough to eat.

We don't think kids should go hungry.
Kids who have enough to eat do better at every significant metric we use to measure success. Ancora was created so that we could help as many kids as possible have access to food and nutrition. Because food is hope.

No child should be looking for food to take home at the end of their lunch period. If you believe that, we invite you to join us by becoming a monthly donor to Ancora. Go to AncoraMinistries.org and choose the "Join Project Zero" button.

Ancora is a mission organization working to bring nutrition and health programs to vulnerable populations in Guatemala and our local community.

08/30/2026

Peanut Butter Bowl closes at midnight tonight, and if you are a Lehman Lobos Football fan, you have a chance to help the Lobos finish in the final rankings for the first time ever! The Lobos came in at #15 in this week's online rankings, and they are looking to finish as the top school in Hays CISD.

To donate online, go to PeanutButterBowl.com/give/ and choose Lehman Lobos in the dropdown menu. Every dollar donated helps us feed kids in Hays CISD through the HaysHope2Go weekend food program, and $2 = 1 jar of peanut butter. Can the Lobos finish in the Top 10 next week? Let's find out!
Lehman Lobos Athletics The Lobo Club

08/29/2026

The Hays Hawks cracked the Top 30 in this week's online rankings for Peanut Butter Bowl, coming in tied for #30 (out of 121 schools). And, thanks to the generosity of Hawks fans, we also picked up a LOT of actual peanut butter from Hays Athletics this week!

Online giving closes at midnight tomorrow, so Hawks fans, it's your last chance to get a boost in the rankings. Go to PeanutButterBowl.com/give/ and choose Hays Hawks in the dropdown menu to make your online donation. Your generosity feeds kids in Hays CISD, and every $2 = 1 jar of peanut butter.
Jack C.Hays High School Jack C. Hays High School Football Hays High School Athletics

08/29/2026

Peanut Butter Bowl wraps up this weekend, and the Drip Tigers have once again come to win. This week, the Tigers are sitting at #6 out of 121 schools in the online giving rankings.
The Tigers have done it by having the MOST INDIVIDUAL DONORS out of all the schools. Thanks, fans, for participating!

Online giving closes at midnight tomorrow night, so you still have a chance to help get the Tigers back to #1 by giving generously at PeanutButterBowl.com/give/ and choosing Dripping Springs Tigers in the dropdown menu. Every dollar donated feed kids in Dripping Springs ISD through the Dripping With Hope weekend food program. Dripping Springs High School

08/28/2026

We made it. Launch Week for the Feed Kids Right Now program happened, and despite a few hiccups, nearly 800 kids in Hays, Caldwell, and Travis Counties are going home with food this weekend and will come back to school on Monday with full tummies.
This is our 8th year, and Launch Week is always a little hectic. Throw in the New Outpost and all of the new ways of doing things, and you get extra doses of both CHAOS and AWESOME.

We will happily take a deep breath this weekend and rest some rest. And then next week, we'll add 10 more schools and at least 700 more kids, and we'll do this all over again.
We don't think kids should be hungry, so this is what we do.
If you'd like to be a part of it, go to FeedKidsRightNow.com and take action.