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Our purpose is to strive to change behavior and prevent crime, by providing crisis intervention, and counseling, decent and affordable housing in an atmosphere of trust.

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Our Financial Management and Budget Counseling services are designed to empower you with the skills and strategies needed to take control of your financial destiny. Our expert counselors provide personalized guidance, helping you create a customized budget and develop sound financial habits. Gain confidence in your financial decisions and secure your path to financial success.


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About RCSM

Rapides Station Community Ministries (RSCM) is a faith-based non-profit organization created in 1990 to assist families toward positive academic, social and character development of their children in Rapides Station, Boyce and Alexandria, Louisiana. Additionally, RSCM, a HUD-approved counseling agency, extended its outreach to provide decent, safe, sanitary and affordable homes to families in Central Louisiana.  Meet our staff.

RSCM has a proven track record in providing high-quality educational programs to young children and their families. From 2002-2010, RSCM received more than $2.3 million from the Louisiana Department of Education (DOE) to operate the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) and the 21st Century Community Learning Center programs in Rapides Parish.

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    In working with students and their families through educational programs and activities, RSCM’s director and staff discovered that healthy families needed safe communities and safe, sanitary, decent and affordable housing. Thus, RSCM became engaged in many home ownership activities and received more than $10 million from the Louisiana Housing Finance Agency (LHFA) to provide affordable housing to low-income families throughout Louisiana. RSCM has built approximately 40 single family homes, in which 20 were built in a one-year period. Also, from 2010-2013, RSCM participated in the LHFA’s Non-Profit Rebuild Pilot Program designed to assist families affected by Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita in St. Tammany, Washington, Calcasieu and Cameron Parishes. RSCM assisted five (5) families reconstruct their homes, and 20 families in rehabilitating their hurricane-damaged home. Additionally, RSCM has developed a 17-unit, 202 HUD Senior Citizen Housing Development, and an 8-unit housing development for low-income families. Both are located in Boyce, La.  

Our Services

Rapides Station Community Ministries is a certified counseling agency of the U.S. Housing and Urban Development. RSCM is the only certified counseling agency in Central Louisiana.


The following services are provided:

⚪ Fair Housing Pre-Purchase Education Workshops

⚪ Financial Management/Budget Counseling

⚪ Home Improvement and Rehabilitation Counseling

⚪ Mortgage Delinquency and Default Resolution Counseling

⚪ Non-Delinquency Post Purchase Workshops

⚪ Pre-purchase Counseling

⚪ Pre-purchase Homebuyer Education Workshops

⚪ Predatory Lending Education Workshops

⚪ Rental Housing Counseling

⚪ Services for Homeless Counseling

Meet Our Staff

Dr. Joe S. Green

Dr. Joe S. Green is the founder and executive director of Rapides Station Community Ministries, governed by a seven-member Board of Directors who brings expertise from ministry, military, industry, management, banking, education and business.

 Dr. Green is a visionary who brings extensive expertise from a range of fields, including community development, community relations, labor and housing. He is the pastor emeritus of St. Matthew Baptist Church, where he served for 30 years. Under his leadership, the church’s membership grew from 38 to more than 1,000.

Linda Venson

Linda Venson, a native and resident of Alexandria, is the office manager of RSCM. She has been with the organization since 2007. Linda brings a wealth of knowledge to RSCM having worked in banking 18 years before joining the team. Linda is a member of St. Matthew Baptist Church in Boyce, La., and she is a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority.

In addition to facilitating the organization's daily operations, she is a certified Housing Counselor who assists first-time homebuyers in the process of purchasing a home. She also offers credit counseling to those who want to improve their credit ratings.

Sherri L. Jackson

Sherri L. Jackson, a native of Hammond and resident of Alexandria, is the Program Director, who is responsible for managing the agency’s various programs. Joining the organization in 2010, Sherri is an educator and former journalist, who has expertise in community development and housing.

In addition to her work at RSCM, Sherri is an ordained minister at St. Matthew Baptist Church. She is pursuing a Master of Divinity from United Theological Seminary in Dayton, Ohio.

Why Rapides Station Community Ministries?

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