Inner City Missions, Inc. is a faith based, non-profit organization based on the holistic Gospel principle, striving to minister in each area of a person’s life. Inner City Missions’ primary goal is to respond to the needs of the people in North Philadelphia and its surrounding neighborhood, reaching those who are described as “unreachable” and “impossible,” including the homeless, prostitutes, drug addicts, and the children. The missions is a Christ centered environment desiring to help people who are in desperate situations and willing to seek God for the answers to their lives. It is a place where everyone can come to Christ Jesus. This is achieved by meeting the basic needs of people. Inner City Missions is a complete ministry that equips and facilitates people to become self-sufficient contributing members of society.

Pastor Frank Vega, founder and executive director of Inner City Missions, states that Matthew 25:35-40 clarifies his purpose and vision. The following is a portion of that passage: “For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me” (Matthew 25: 35-36 NIV). Pastor Frank Vega is not willing to sit still while there is a hurting world out there. He believes that we together can carry the light. We can shine the life changing truth of the Gospel.

Inner City Missions serves Philadelphia’s low income neighborhoods. It provides inner city families the stability, training, and opportunity to obey Jesus Christ’s great commission. Jesus Christ’s mandate is given in Matthew 28:18-20: “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” God wants all Christians to fulfill this commandment.

Inner City Missions is involved, and desires to be more involved, in many areas reaching out to the community at large:

Recently, two new ministries have been initiated: Bethany Medical Outreach, which is a mobile medical unit that provides physical, emotional, and spiritual care and ICMovement, which is a performing arts ministry which offers the gospel of Jesus Christ to individuals by way of the arts. Future plans for Inner City Missions involve community development and housing ministry.