ABOUT

In 2012 pastor Justin Unger challenged ministry leaders Jaye Lene and David Long to take Celebrate Recovery to the streets. To share that true freedom IS possible from all hurts, habits, and hang-ups.
 
Out of our deep love and passion for our community and our endless hope for change, the Hope Fest Team was born. We prayed for guidance, planned, and showed up to do this Hope Fest ‘thing’ once (we thought). We could do anything once. Right? Now, we are diving into the 13th year. WOW, we never imagined we'd be here today at year 13!

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Every year, this unique gathering brings together local businesses and area service organizations for the Hope Serves Family Resource Fair, the Fun Zone, music, speakers, and the Car & Bike Show. The result is a dynamic advocacy network that serves with love, compassion and care.

 

While our roots are grounded in recovery, HFAZ has grown by connecting solutions so families can thrive, thanks to the many friends and service organizations that have answered the call over these past 13 years. 

 

How the Hope Serves Family Resource Fair started.

“I reflected on my early days of recovery (now 25 years) and recognized the many areas where I needed support, including health checks, education, legal advice, and more. Some of my friends required a driver’s license, a job and counseling. We’ve organically expanded the services offered at Hope Fest as directly tied to the amazing service provider organizations that step forward to participate. We are truly grateful!” -- Jaye Lene Long, co-founder and President of Hope Serves Inc.

 

Services & Solutions we aim to offer in 2025 in the Hope Serves Resource Fair - Education, Housing, Recovery, Domestic Violence, Mental, Social, and Health Care, Veteran & 1st Responder Family Services, Youth Advocacy & Activities, Adoption, Foster and Elder Care, Employment and Volunteer Opportunities, and many more.

 

A community outreach event—Get ready…the date is set—HOPE FEST Arizona 2025—the 13th Annual happens Saturday, September 20th. Prescott’s beautiful Yavapai County Courthouse Plaza will once again come alive as thousands will enjoy music, guest speakers, a multitude of connections, and community services as part of the HOPE Serves Family Resource Fair, the FREE amusements in the Family Fun Zone, and a bright-n-shiny Car and motorcycle Show!

 

The event’s name recognition has grown within our community along with our dedicated mission to serve: The Veterans, Active Military, First Responders, and the vulnerable of Yavapai County. Documented survey results and endorsement responses indicate that guests are engaged in improving our community. They see the Festival as a way to be actively involved locally that is positive and full of love and HOPE.

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Here you can click to view the  Accomplishment Report and Contributors List. 

• 120 Service Providers

• 120+ Volunteers

• Veteran / First Responder Family Service Area assisted over 8000 attendees; Northern Arizona VA – 6 divisions.

• Record numbers of Gift of Warmth donations of cold-weather clothing.

• The Fostering Hope Award 2024 winner, BIKERS AGAINST CHILD ABUSE, received a $2,000 donation award.

• The FREE Family Fun Zone and the Car & Motorcycle Show, the largest in the Festival’s history, attracted thousands of guests. 

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Please prayerfully consider supporting Prescott's homegrown community service outreach. Click to see the Partnership Support Levels and Gratitude Packages. HOPE FEST Arizona is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization managed by an all-volunteer staff that is financed entirely through donors, corporate sponsors, and trade relationships – working together to impact the lives of our neighbors!

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Things have been rather crazy. We have all witnessed a world full of chaos that is quick to anger with hurtful, spontaneous retaliation. What if we learned to call on LOVE to be our very 1st response…an engrained reaction? How different could the outcomes be in our sphere of influence and our world if we gave ourselves away in LOVE?

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Love is the only thing that can change the unchangeable. Love heals, uplifts, strengthens, energizes, refreshes, and renews. Love is the most powerful force in the universe.

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This year’s HOPE FEST AZ theme is “Love First!” 

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Many of our Festival guests are starving for lasting, positive change as they work to move ahead in this unpredictable world. Here’s the amazing thing: God wired the universe so that when we help people, God simultaneously works on our problems, too. There is healing in giving back. The bonus is when we give ourselves away in love. Just watch how “Love First” works in your life…touching everyone!

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God has led us to an inspired vision for 2025 that is amazing and exciting. We invite you to invest yourself through the resources that He has given you – your talents, your energy, and your finances in this work God has called us to. HOPE Serves! So, come join our hope-filled prayers, efforts, and dreams as we prepare to engage our community. You are needed here!

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Plans are underway to bring Live Music, Guest Speakers, the HOPE Serves Family Resource Fair, many Service Vendors, the Family Fun Zone and much more for the fun and benefit of the Greater Prescott Area.  Together we as a community CAN offer compassion combined with real solutions as well as hands and hearts to serve to Be Part of the Solution!

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*** Once again, we will be collecting donations of canned food and new cold weather gear, such as socks, sleeping bags, tents...bring your's so ALL our neighbors will be Warm for Winter ***

 

Follow us on Facebook at Hope Fest Arizona Instagram and on Twitter @HopeFestAZ

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Let’s align our shared values and serve together to build a culture that cherishes lasting hope and true transformation!

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