2019 The Odyssey Project

In its third year, The Odyssey Project is an annual, signature event dreamed up to raise funds to further the mission of City Care. The event will take place on Saturday, the fifth of October, 2019, at Tower Theatre in Oklahoma City. Challenge your notions about what poverty looks like, why it occurs, what you can do, and why you should.

We believe in the intrinsic value of every person. It is with love and compassion we advocate for the overlooked in our community. We provide food for the hungry and relief for the hurting and hold space for the complete restoration of lives that have gotten off course. With enough endurance, we witness, firsthand, remarkable stories of transformation.

At the intersection of strangers becoming friends, City Care was initiated. By simply doing the next right thing, offering a weekly breakfast to our neighbors experiencing homelessness, our organization was founded.

We believe the home is the heartbeat of the family. It should be a sanctuary, a place of deep rest, discovery, and healing. And to that end, we have built and offered up 104 units of supportive and permanent housing to our neighbors transitioning out of homelessness. In peer-supported community, our residents are given a safe space to exhale. Lives are redeemed, and stories are renewed.

We know one of the keys to changing the course of intergenerational poverty is a positive disruption in cycles of low academic achievement. That’s why we started our Whiz Kids program, a one-on-one mentorship and literacy program for students in Oklahoma City metro schools.

For more than 23 years, City Care has served our neighbors well, with quiet excellence, offering homeless services, supportive housing, and prevention of school failure through literacy to dramatically change the intergenerational effects of poverty.

Our work is far from over. Join us, won’t you?Let's stay in touch! Find us on social media: @citycareokc #odysseyprojectokc. Questions? Drop Crystal a line and she will take great care of you-- crystal@citycareokc.org.

Presented by Silvia & Steve Payne and
Downtown Oklahoma City Partnership

Also sponsored by Love Meyer Family Foundation, Linda & Steve Slawson,
UMB Bank, Quail Creek Bank, BKD CPAs & Advisors, BancFirst, American Fidelity Foundation, INTEGRIS, Blue Seven, Kim Rolston, Sara and Andy Burnett, Carole and Jeremy Tear, Amy and Josh Newberry, Katie and Zack Robinson, Ascent Resources, First United Bank, & MIDCON Data Services.