The Greenhouse

Our residential community for people desiring to transform from survival mode to thrival mode is a beautiful place where The Garden Covenant is practiced. Join us for a home-cooked Sunday meal and make a difference in our lives while we pour into yours.

We Can't Wait to Serve You!

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817.629.3888

melissarawlins@chayah.info

Who Are We ?

CHAYAH's Board of Directors are not the only ones involved in making LIFE = CHAYAH the reality of our friends, family, and future... but we are working hard to make The Greenhouse by CHAYAH a reality for its residents.

President / Founder = Melissa Rawlins Vice President = Terry Watson Secretary = Melissa Allred Treasurer = MieLing Watson

2023-2026 Board of Directors

Terry Watson

With a mission to share Yah’s love, Terry Watson brings loving enthusiasm to CHAYAH. Though he sees our challenges as helping people obtain jobs and qualify for housing, he will give the hours Yah provides to the planning, team building, fundraising, public speaking, management, organization and leadership that are necessary to remove... Read More

Melissa Allred

Hoping to help others grow into Messiah Yeshua, Melissa Allred joined CHAYAH with helping hands fueled by the spiritual gift of mercy. “I can empathize with people,” Melissa said. “I live with a veteran who has PTSD, who went to war. I have several family members who are currently incarcerated.” A certified nurse aide whose first ministry... Read More

MieLing Watson

Loving people is MieLing Watson’s greatest talent. She has homeschooled three children. while working fulltime, and they are all thriving. The skills she’s developed in the process allow her to be the eagle-eyed, detail-oriented, team-building board member that will help establish The Greenhouse by CHAYAH and its associated projects... Read More

Melissa Rawlins

Letting perseverance have its perfect work, Melissa Rawlins persists in acting upon her faith. She believes transformation is possible in partnership with The Spirit of Messiah. For this reason, she founded CHAYAH in service to Yah’s calling to build a house where His name would be praised. Now CHAYAH’s on a mission to provide housing... Read More

LIFE is GOOD

The Greenhouse by CHAYAH

CHAYAH's assets are permanently dedicated to our members' common interest in alleviating poverty, disease, pain and suffering through provision of shelter, food, worship and work opportunities as well as financial, spiritual, health, emotional and mental counseling directly to indigent people, veterans and ex offenders seeking to reenter society successfully and become contributing members of Texas communities. The Association’s expectation is that the organization will derive funds from sources other than fees charged for its services.

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Help us buy a Freezer for Food Storage!

Opportunities to Help

Donate for a Freezer for Our Residents' Food

$20.00 or more

7x70

We're looking for 70 people to pledge $7 a week for a full year!

Your pledge helps provide food, clothing and utility bills for five men..

$1,092.00

Walk The Wilderness Journey

Support the 4 staff who will serve the 60 men living, working and worshiping at THE GREENHOUSE.

$4,368.00

Stir Up The Spirit

Join us to build CHAYAH's fellowship hall!

$2,912.00

Love Leftover

CHAYAH! seeks to purchase 100 acres on which to build residential, fellowship and agricultural facilities.

$7,280.00

Cover The Covenant

$56 weekly pledge supporting highly effective reentry programming.

$2,912.00

Join The Jubilee

Pledge to Provide five men a Firm Foundation!

$2,548.00

Will you support the work of CHAYAH ?

Subscriptions

When we receive your membership donation, we'll use it to support the growth of people who desire to be contributors to society and simply need a nurturing environment to practice being the person they were designed to be. When you support the work of CHAYAH you will receive a subscription to WHOLE: The Magazine for Your SOUL. The donations below are calculated by multiplying the cost of a daily sacrifice times 365 days. We'll be asking you to pledge a daily amount that will show as a recurring debit on the credit or debit card you choose to use.

Opportunities

Membership Levels

The Garden Covenant

7x70

Take the $1 a Day Challenge! We're looking for 70 people to pledge $7 a week for a full year! This will support the ministry of the gospel (purchase of bibles) for only $1 per day,...

Treasure our Tribes

We're seeking 12 people to support the food, clothing and utility bills for five men at $3.00 per day, $21 per week, or $91 per month totaling $1,092 per year.

Walk The Wilderness Journey

Contribute to the living expenses of the four staff who will serve the 60 men living, working and worshiping at THE GREENHOUSE. * $12 daily * $84 weekly * $364 monthly * $4,368 annually...

Stir Up The Spirit

Are you inspired by Haggai 1:8 and Haggai 1:14, proclaiming that community effort will have its perfect work? Then please, join the 114 people giving $243 per month ($18 per day or...

Love Leftover

Give up your daily steak dinner in order to support the purchase of land on which to build the transitional community buildings for only $20 per day, $140 per week, or $607 per month...

Cover the Covenant

The Garden Covenant Prison Ministry needs 12 people pledging to give $243 per month ($56 per week or $2,912 per year) to conduct its highly effective reentry classes stimulating a...

Join the Jubilee

Pledge to Provide five men a Firm Foundation! Pledge to help us build one 5-man Cottage! $2,548.00 Annual Pledge. * $7.00 per day * $49.00 weekly

Thank You For Your Help! Your Donation Changes Lives! When you dedicate a daily sacrifice for one year, you support the day in, day out efforts of your brothers and sisters who desire to contribute to community. When you sacrifice anywhere from $1 per day to $20 per day, for at least a full year, you empower CHAYAH to cover the costs of revival for a generation of men returning to society after a time away fighting battles both personal and public.

CHAYAH = LIFE

Donations

We partner with life coaches, gyms, clothes closets, counselors, food pantries, and people from all walks of life who care about helping people help themselves. We welcome your kind donation of funds that help us cover all sorts of expenses associated with maintaining a home where integrity is most valuable. Maintaining the health and safety of our residents is utmost priority. This requires money to maintain functionality of plumbing, HVAC, communication and electrical systems as well as resources like hardware, tools, paint and wood.

Charitable Contributions

Ways to Serve

Will you show your love for your neighbor through energetic time and effort in areas such as ministry, fundraising or marketing — or through monetary donations — or through donations of land, materials, furnishings, consulting, legal services, vehicles, utensils, tools, fuel, food, bibles, clothing, construction design, engineering and architectural services? Thank you for thinking about that when you join CHAYAH, and we’ll talk about your level of participation soon!

Giving Options

CHAYAH = LIFE

CHAYAH is a Not-For-Profit Benevolent Association

The Association exists to provide a charitable service to the people of Texas by alleviating poverty, disease, pain and suffering through provision of shelter, food, worship and work opportunities as well as spiritual, financial, health, emotional and mental counseling directly to indigent people, veterans and ex offenders seeking to reenter society successfully and become contributing members of Texas communities.

The members of The Association believe Yahweh is using us to build an assembly of and for people desiring to contribute to their community. People coming out of prison, or back from war, or out of indigency, will successfully reintegrate into society when they participate in CHAYAH, an assembly of people with a love for the Way of Yahweh who will provide them immediate housing, worship and work on premises. People already skilled at living in society will volunteer on premises, working alongside the ex-offenders, formerly homeless and veterans and mentoring them in a living discipleship. Residents of the transitional housing on premises will access resources for personal and professional development via qualified providers both on- and off-premises, and will also volunteer off-premises alongside people already skilled at living in society, so that mentoring can take place in the community at large and the reentry population can mature in the grace and knowledge of Yahshua haMashiyach.