Service Approach and Practice of TOPS

The Ordinary Peoples Society (TOPS), headquartered in Dothan, Alabama, with Chapters in 15 Alabama cities. TOPS is dedicated to uplifting the lives of people who have otherwise been overlooked by society—ordinary people, many of whom are living in broken, inner city neighborhoods. We are an educational and charitable ministry recognized by the IRS as a 501(c)(3) organization. TOPS seeks to address every facet of human needs, including physical needs, emotional needs, mental needs, and spiritual needs.

We take a progressive approach in our organization, starting with food, clothing and shelter—primary physical needs. Then, we address the emotional needs of our participants by helping them restore self-confidence, love, hope, patience, honor, respect and kindness. We do this by continually modeling these attributes throughout TOPS and building our platform on these principles. Next, we seek to mentally build a bridge between our participants and the rest of society by providing education and educational resources and by challenging our participants to surpass any boundaries they have set for themselves in regards to any knowledge base or learning process. And, finally, we meet the spiritual needs of our participants by holistically addressing that part of humankind that is invisible, but very present. We take this mission very seriously by seeking to connect every aspect of the human being. These spiritual needs we address are on an individual basis and help each person to discover, develop and express his or her own path.