Village Disciple Center is a community development and neighborhood anchor organization in Oak Cliff, Dallas, Texas, working across health, education, economic empowerment, and quality of life. We are built on four pillars: Give. Serve. Love. Grow. Our declaration says it plainly: Everyone invited. Everyone growing. Everyone sent. That is how we operate every single day.
We sit on nine debt-free acres at 4353 S. Hampton Road in the 75232 zip code, one of the most underserved and underinvested communities in Dallas. We did not move here. We are from here. This organization carries over 54 years of institutional history in this community, originally established as David's Chapel Missionary Baptist Church, and has grown into a full community development anchor serving Oak Cliff and South Dallas.
This campus is not a building that sits empty during the week. Mothers Day Out families gather here. Pre-K4 students, including children building the communication and social skills that will carry them through school, learn here. Parents take financial literacy and parenting classes here. Doulas complete their training here. Neighbors hold weddings, graduations, and small business meetings here. All of it happens under one roof, on the same nine acres, because we believe community infrastructure should work for a neighborhood every single day of the week, not just once a week.
OUR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT WORK
Our programming spans four areas of impact: Health, Wealth, Living, and Learning, a framework we build in close partnership with Community Infusion Project, a community development initiative rooted in this same campus and this same mission.
Health: Planted Hope Community Garden is registered farmland with the USDA Conservation Stewardship Program and has already been awarded three separate grants. It honors the legacy of the late Reverend Joseph E. Roberson and feeds families through our monthly Farmers Market.
Wealth: Financial literacy and parenting classes give families in this zip code practical tools to build stability now and generational wealth over time.
Learning: Our Code Matters is our after-school coding program and summer technology camp for underrepresented youth in Oak Cliff and South Dallas, closing a digital divide that determines economic outcomes. The Circle @ VDC walks young people through every stage of development, from Circle Kids through Circle Leaders.
Living: Light The Night is our annual violence prevention event, a safe and family-centered alternative to Halloween serving hundreds of Oak Cliff families, and our campus itself provides safe, accessible gathering space for milestones and community life.
We partner with Dallas City Council District 3, Dallas Police Department, Dallas Fire and Rescue, and other community organizations to keep our work connected to the broader systems that shape this neighborhood.
Village Disciple Center also works alongside Community Infusion Project, a community development initiative rooted in this same campus. Learn more about their work at https://www.communityinfusionproject.org/ourwork.
THIS YEAR'S FOCUS: UNDER ONE ROOF
Five of our HVAC units haven't been upgraded in over twenty years, and it's time. Our roof and parking lot need that same investment. This year's North Texas Giving Day campaign, Under One Roof, raises $75,000 to upgrade those units and protect the structure that holds every one of these programs above. This isn't about rescuing something broken. It's about investing in a building that is already working at full capacity, and making sure it keeps working for the next twenty years.
Give today. Give boldly. This community is worth it.
Village Disciple Center is a community development anchor in Oak Cliff, Dallas, working across health, education, economic empowerment, and quality of life from a nine-acre, debt-free campus. We build pathways for children, families, and neighbors to grow in skill, stability, and opportunity, in close partnership with Community Infusion Project. Everyone invited. Everyone growing. Everyone sent.
Immediate Priorities (Your Gift at Work)
$100 - Keeps one Pre-K4 classroom cool for a full week
$500 - Keeps Mothers Day Out running comfortably for a month
$2,500 - Funds a full quarter of one brand new HVAC unit
$9,000 - Replaces one complete HVAC unit, and it can carry your name
$15,000 - Covers a quarter of our new roof and parking upgrade
$30,000 - Funds our entire roof and parking upgrade, top campaign recognition
Current Capital Needs:
HVAC Upgrade — Five units unchanged in over 20 years, $45,000 total
Roof and Parking Lot Upgrade — Protects access and structure for every program on campus, $30,000 total
Village Disciple Center is rooted in the 75232 zip code of Oak Cliff, Dallas, one of the most historically under-resourced and underinvested communities in North Texas. We have been a continuous presence in this neighborhood for over 54 years, led by Black leadership who live and work in the community we serve, not outside it.
Our programming is built to close specific, measurable gaps this community faces: food access through Planted Hope Community Garden and our monthly Farmers Market, digital equity through Our Code Matters, and economic mobility through financial literacy and workforce-building classes held on our campus. We design every program around the barriers our neighbors actually face, not around a generic service model imported from somewhere else.
Equity, to us, means resources and decision-making staying in the hands of the community itself. That is why our leadership, our programs, and our campus are all based directly in the neighborhood we serve.
Organization name
Village Disciple Center
Tax id (EIN)
31-1669322
Causes
Religion/Spiritual Focus
Operating Budget
Less than $100,000
Counties Served
Dallas
BIPOC Serving
Black or African American, Hispanic or Latinx
BIPOC Leadership
Both the Executive Director/CEO and Board Chair
Address
4353 S HAMPTON RD