Christian Women’s Job Corps (CWJC)

My Father’s House Lubbock serves women-in-need by educating them in essential life and job skills. Each Learning Center student participates in a 12-week course under the sponsorship of the Christian Women’s Job Corps (CWJC). Women maintaining residency elsewhere may also participate in the classroom program. Both day and evening classes are scheduled. The structured and concentrated CWJC classroom experience provides intense training in Christian life skills and job readiness skills. This practical instruction is reinforced through mentoring by a Christian woman.

Christian Women’s Job Corps (CWJC) is a ministry project of Women’s Missionary Union, the largest Protestant missions organization for women in the world. The goal of CWJC is to provide women in need a hand-up toward sustaining successful employment and meeting life goals. Women receive training in life skills (rearing children, budgeting money) and job readiness (computer training, customer service skills). Each woman is involved in Bible study and matched with a trained Christian woman who will be her mentor as she travels the road from dependency to self-sufficiency.

Classroom instruction may include the following categories:

Improved communication, self-awareness, goal setting, and time management skills ensure that our graduates will be competitive applicants with strong work ethics, self confidence and a willingness to work. Partnerships between MFHL and West Texas employers in Lubbock, Amarillo, and Midland-Odessa may offer participants a conduit into full-time employment, although no guarantee of employment is made.

Devoted mentors inspire and initiate success in the CWJC program. Each Christian Women’s Job Corps student is assigned a volunteer mentor. Mentors encourage and strengthen participants during training and after the classroom instruction ends. These relationships help participants meet the commitments made during the program and provide necessary support to make lasting life changes.