ABOUT HELPING WITH ALL MY HEART

To provide safe and humane overnight and daytime shelter, and supportive services to asylum seekers.

Helping With All My Heart is a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization (EIN 47-2460041) which has been operating emergency shelters in the Phoenix area since 2018.  These shelters support asylum seekers who have crossed the southern border of the United States and have been granted entry to the country to pursue their asylum claim.  Shelter occupants usually stay only 1 to 2 days before they travel to their sponsors in other parts of the country.  

Pastor Cristobal Perez is the CEO and founder of Helping With All My Heart.  He is also the senior Pastor of Iglesia Apostolica de la Comunidad (Apostolic Church of the Community).  He was ordained in Mexicali, Mexico in May of 1996 and has served as pastor in congregations in Mexico and the U.S.  Pastor Perez also operates shelters in Mexicali and Algondones, Mexico. Pastor Perez is supported by his wife, Martha Castelo, who assists in managing the shelters.

 In 2023, Helping With All My Heart assisted almost 27,000 asylum seekers at their shelters in Phoenix and Laveen.  People arriving at the shelter are offered food, clothing, showers assistance with travel arrangements, transportation to the airport and, if needed, a place to spend the night.