Last Chance Ministries

In 2005, Jimmy Robles attended a Westside A.C.T.S. Men's Retreat through San Juan De Los Lagos Church. At this 4 day retreat, he encountered God in drama that changed his life forever. By the end of the retreat, he turned his life over to God and was convicted of his old sinful life of selling drugs and became a new person with a strong desire to serve God.

Not even a month into his salvation, he gave way to act on a vision that God had placed in his heart. He would minister through a drama based loosely on his life story. A 26 page script was written in a week and 3 months later he had a cast of 44 teenagers and adults ready to go on the road.

The drama was called "A Second Chance" and was first performed on April 2006 at the YWCA gym on Castroville Road in San Antonio, Texas with over 600 in attendance. With the success of his first production, the drama was repeated each month all over Texas for the next 3 years.

In May 2006, passing through a vacant dirt lot on the corner of Zarazamora & Poplar Street, he was moved to set up an outreach ministry on the vacant lot that was across the street from an empty bail bonds building. With a table and a couple of chairs and a sign that said, "Do You Need a Hug or Prayer", he started to reach out to the community. Surrounded by prostitutes, gangs, addicts and the homeless, he served coffee with something to eat. Every Saturday he continued to setup the outreach ministry in the vacant lot and minister to all who would come.

Seeing the need first hand in the community, he decided to have a Thanksgiving event, where he provided a turkey dinner with all the trimmings to the less fortunate. After his first Thanksgiving event, the outreach ministry continued to grow to over a 100 people who would faithfully show up each Saturday.

The outreach ministry continued in this vacant lot for 3 years. Seeing a vision and a calling to continue to minister to the needs of the Westside community, God directed Pastor Jimmy Robles to the empty bail bonds building across the street.

This building would eventually be transformed and become Last Chance Ministries Church. The abandoned bails bond building had bullet proof windows, no floors, and was in a dilapidated state.

With much hard work and sacrifice, the 100 year old building was renovated and in November 2009 was opened to serve the Westside community. After much prayer and faithfully paying rent for over two years, God blessed Pastor Robles on September 2011, when God touched the heart of a believer & supporter of the ministry to bless Last Chance Ministry with a $100,000 donation which Pastor Robles used to payoff the building.