PAXTON MINISTRIES
Discover Your Place to Belong
We provide affordable housing and support services to adults in need with Christ-like love.
A Place To Live
A Place To Serve
Your support of Paxton Ministries provides a safe, comfortable, and friendly home for adults in need.
Your donations help to save and change lives.
A Place To Support
Preparations for Christmas 2025 are underway at Paxton Ministries! For many of our residents, the holidays haven’t always been joyful—but with your help, we can change that.
Support Resident Celebrations to help provide meaningful moments—Christmas gifts, birthday surprises, and festive gatherings that bring lasting joy and dignity to those we serve.
We’re also collecting essential everyday items—perfect for individuals or groups looking to give back this season.
Stepping Forward into Growth and Transformation
Impact Report 2024-25
View our latest Annual Impact Report to read Doris's story, along with important updates from Year Two of Paxton's Strategic Plan.
Preparations for Christmas 2025 are underway at Paxton Ministries! For many of our residents, the holidays haven’t always been joyful—but with your help, we can change that.
Support Resident Celebrations to help provide meaningful moments—Christmas gifts, birthday surprises, and festive gatherings that bring lasting joy and dignity to those we serve.
We’re also collecting essential everyday items—perfect for individuals or groups looking to give back this season.
Why Paxton Ministries?
Since 1981, Paxton Ministries has provided a home for those in need. Serving adults primarily challenged with poverty, mental illness, and intellectual disabilities, our mission is to provide affordable housing and support services with Christlike love. As a nonprofit organization serving those with minimal income, we rely on a strong network of donors, volunteers, and prayer partners to sustain our work. Discover your place in our vibrant community today.
Who We Are
one life.
one home.
one community.
At Paxton Ministries, we provide more than just housing — we offer dignity, compassion, and a true sense of home to adults facing poverty, mental illness, and disabilities.
For over 40 years, we’ve combined faith-based care with practical support, empowering residents to live meaningful, connected lives. Whether you give, volunteer, or partner with us, your support directly improves lives right here in Central Pennsylvania.
When you choose Paxton, you choose hope
— one life, one home, one community at a time.
Donate To Paxton Ministries
Your Gift Makes an Impact
Each and every gift helps to provide a supportive and loving home! Thank you for lending a hand.
We are so grateful for the regular and faithful gifts of our monthly donors! It's easy to set up and makes a big difference in the live of our residents.
By leaving a legacy gift, you can ensure our vital work continues to impact lives for years to come. Learn how your values can shape the future through a gift in your will or estate plan.
Your generous giving enables us to purchase Christmas gifts, celebrate birthdays, and hold other activities that create positive memories for each resident throughout the year.
Make a One-time Gift
Each and every gift helps to provide a supportive and loving home! Thank you for lending a hand.
Join Our Companion Circle
(monthly giving program)
We are so grateful for the regular and faithful gifts of our monthly donors! It's easy to set up and makes a big difference in the live of our residents.
Leave A Legacy
Leave a gift that keeps on giving when you include Paxton Ministries as a beneficiary of your life insurance, will, or estate plans.
Support Resident Celebrations
Your generous giving enables us to purchase Christmas gifts, celebrate birthdays, and hold other activities that create positive memories for each resident throughout the year.
Our Mission
To provide affordable housing and support services to adults in need with Christ-like love.
Our Values
Dignity & Respect
We affirm the dignity and worth of every person, providing compassionate support, promoting empowerment, and advocating for wellness.
Integrity
We are committed to honesty and fairness, to being ethical and trustworthy in our relationships as is honoring to God.
Excellence
We work to achieve the highest level of quality, to continually improve, and glorify God in all that we do.
Community
We value each person’s unique contributions as we share responsibility and build meaningful relationships with each other.
Collaboration
We work with others to achieve our mission and to increase awareness of the needs in our community.
Stewardship
We responsibly use the financial, human, and natural resources entrusted to our care. We are accountable to each other, the people we serve, our constituents, and to God for our decisions, actions, and speech.
Dignity & Respect
We believe every person is created with worth. We offer compassionate support, encourage personal growth, and stand as advocates for wellness and empowerment.
Integrity
We commit to honesty, fairness, and accountability in all we do—seeking to reflect God's character in our relationships, decisions, and actions.
Excellence
We strive for the highest standards of quality, continually improving our programs, care, and outreach to better serve our community and honor God.
Community
We create spaces where people are known, valued, and included. Every person brings unique gifts, and together we build a supportive, shared life.
Collaboration
We partner with individuals, organizations, and faith communities to expand impact, raise awareness, and meet the diverse needs of those we serve.
Stewardship
We honor the resources entrusted to us—financial, human, and environmental—by using them wisely, transparently, and with accountability to those we serve and to God.
Protect the people you love
"I like living at Paxton Ministries because...I like just knowing that if something happens...they'll be there."
Community & Faith-Based Partnerships
We’re proud to work alongside local churches and organizations who share our heart for service. Long-standing partners bring time, talent, and compassion to our residents—helping us extend Christ-like love far beyond our walls.
Wind Insurance helped me start securing the future of my family, to ensure my baby girl could afford college when the time comes.
Dalia H.
It puts my mind at ease to know that my home is protected in case natural disaster strikes, or if a serious problem arises.
Dalia H.
It's never too late to start thinking of the day your family will have to go on without you, and to give them the financial security to live and thrive.
Dalia H.
