Fairfax police officer's ministry reaches out to veterans

Fairfax police officer's ministry reaches out to veterans

By Gregg MacDonald
Fairfax County Times
Thursday, March 11, 2010

Somewhere in between her duties as a Fairfax County police officer and raising a 15-month-old daughter, Michelle Humphries manages to touch the lives of hundreds of combat veterans every month through her nonprofit ministry.

A 16-year veteran of the county police department, Humphries, 39, started Arms Outstretched Ministry in 2006 after participating in several overseas mission trips.

"I realized that there was so much need right here at home that needed to be addressed in the same way," she said. The ministry is a registered 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation with nine board members.

Partnering with Gary Bailey, a fellow county police officer who is the founding pastor of Foundation Christian Fellowship Church in Stafford, Humphries' independent ministry heads up nine outreach programs that supply aid to active and wounded soldiers, as well as local foster children, the homeless, inmates and the elderly.
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