Our Story

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Red Thread Ministries was launched to serve the impoverished, underprivileged and under 
reached children and families within our local community, as well as those in our global 
community.  For God’s love knows no boundaries, borders or socioeconomic status.  
Going beyond compassion is truly our ultimate goal, whether it’s going into the inner city and 
providing meals and Christmas gifts, or going beyond our state and country borders into other 
nations, equipping missionaries and bringing hope and resources to the poor, the destitute and 
the oppressed.

The ministry was birthed out of three dedicated lives with a long history of serving children and 
the poor. Ronnie and Sherrie May and Becky Perkins began Red Thread Ministries in order to 
continue to weave a red thread of hope into the lives of children and families whose 
circumstances seem hopeless and bleak.

Sherrie and Becky have worked together for the past 10 years making a difference in the lives 
and hearts of children here and around the world.  Sherrie has spent 18 years as a local 
children's pastor, and has a passion to help children have a better life and to know the love and
transforming power of Jesus.  Becky has spent 10 years serving in children's ministry, and 
recently returned from a six-month stay in Mozambique, Africa.  She returned with an overflowing
heart and an enduring vision to show and share the love of Jesus while reaching children so often 
overlooked and forgotten.
Ronnie & Sherrie May have a 30-year history of serving the community of Baton Rouge together, 
while assisting its poor and needy children.  They initially coordinated with their church to bus 
children in on Saturdays for special services, which began a decade long tenure of transporting 
children and God’s love to inner city families.  They have since continued to foster lasting 
relationships that have now spanned generations.  Children they once served now have children 
of their own who call Ronnie “Paw Paw Brother Ronnie.”  He remains a familial mainstay of 
unwavering trust and help in time of need.

Ronnie has partnered with area churches and organizations over the years to continue to 
provide assistance to the families he has long served.  Healing Place Church, CBN, and others 
have donated time and resources, but now Ronnie, Sherrie, and Becky have partnered together 
to form Red Thread Ministries as a non-profit organization.  They have committed their hearts 
and hands to go beyond compassion and are committed to the pursuit of reaching the poor, 
touching the hurting, and impacting future generations, one child and one family at a time.

Red Thread Ministries’ inaugural event was Christmas 2011, where the ministry recruited and 
gathered enough help and resources to provide Christmas gifts and dinner for 30 Baton Rouge 
area families. An upcoming goal is to expand this outreach annually, as well as to further assist 
families who do not have means to provide for their children both at Thanksgiving and Christmas. 

In 2012, the ministry plans to take teams on mission trips to Cape Town, South Africa and 
Swaziland, Africa. In Cape Town, they will work and serve with missionaries who are children's 
pastors. The focus will be training their leaders in children's ministry, as well as launching a 
massive VBS to reach the countless un-churched children in the area. In Swaziland, they will 
take a medical team and work with area missionaries to host a six-day medical clinic that will 
meet the basic medical needs in the community.

Red Thread Ministries welcomes continued support in order to intertwine its cords of 
compassion into the lives of so many, and it embraces further opportunities to meet the needs of 
children and families both domestically and internationally.