Providing Transportation. Restoring Independence. Sharing Hope.
Sometimes a bicycle is more than a bicycle.
For someone without reliable transportation, a bicycle can mean getting to work, making it to an appointment, reaching community resources, buying groceries, or simply having the independence to get where they need to go.
Wheels of Hope exists to provide safe, reliable bicycle transportation to people in our community who are homeless or otherwise in need of transportation.
As part of the House of Hope ministry, we seek to meet practical needs while sharing the love, encouragement, and hope of Jesus Christ with the people we serve.
Each week, our volunteers take donated bicycles that may have been forgotten, abandoned, or simply no longer needed and give them a new purpose—helping someone in our community move forward.
Transportation Can Change What's Possible
Many of us don't think twice about getting in a car and driving to work, the grocery store, a doctor's appointment, or anywhere else we need to go.
For someone without transportation, those everyday tasks can become significant obstacles.
A reliable bicycle can provide a way to:
Get to and from work
Attend a job interview
Reach medical and other important appointments
Access community services
Shop for groceries and necessities
Maintain greater independence
Wheels of Hope is specifically a transportation ministry. Our primary purpose is to provide bicycles to people who need them as practical, everyday transportation rather than primarily for recreation or exercise.
But our mission goes beyond transportation.
House of Hope exists to provide encouragement and the hope of Jesus Christ to all. At Wheels of Hope, repairing and providing a bicycle is one of the practical ways we can demonstrate Christ's love through service.
Sometimes that begins with something as simple as fixing a flat tire, adjusting a brake, listening to someone's story, praying together, or handing someone a bicycle that can help them get to work tomorrow.
How to Receive a Bicycle
1.
Visit Us on Monday
Come to the Wheels of Hope Bike Shop at the House of Hope Campus on Monday between 7:00 AM and 10:00 AM.
2.
Come Back Next Monday
After registering, return the following Monday between 7:00 AM and 10:00 AM.
During the week, our volunteer mechanics work to prepare bicycles for the people who have registered. Most bicycles require approximately 2–3 hours of volunteer repair work before they are ready to safely return to the road.
Need A Repair Done?
3.
Receive Your Bike
When you return, our volunteers will work to match you with an available bicycle appropriate for your transportation needs.
There is no charge for the bicycle.
Our commitment doesn't end when you leave the shop.
If a bicycle you received from Wheels of Hope needs repairs, bring it back during our Monday hours. Our volunteer mechanics will work to keep your bicycle safe, dependable, and on the road.
If a bicycle provided by Wheels of Hope is stolen, we may be able to provide a replacement. A police report is required for replacement of a stolen bicycle.
Visit Wheels of Hope
Every Monday | 7:00 AM – 10:00 AM
Wheels of Hope Bike Shop
Located on the House of Hope Campus
Whether you need to register for a bicycle, pick up a bicycle, or bring back a Wheels of Hope bicycle for repairs, our regular distribution hours are Monday from 7:00 AM until 10:00 AM.
Please bring a valid photo ID when registering for a bicycle.
What Happens Between Mondays?
When Monday's distribution ends, the work in the bike shop isn't finished.
Throughout the week, our volunteer mechanics inspect, repair, adjust, and prepare bicycles for the next Monday's distribution.
A donated bicycle often needs much more than air in the tires. Tires and tubes may need replacing. Brakes need to work properly. Cables, chains, bearings, wheels, seats, pedals, and other components may need to be repaired or replaced.
Most bicycles require 2–3 hours of hands-on volunteer work before they are ready to be given to someone for dependable transportation.
That work adds up.
Each week, Wheels of Hope typically provides 10–12 bicycles to people who need transportation.
That's 10–12 people each week who leave with another way to get to work, an appointment, the store, or wherever they need to go.
Where Our Bicycles Come From
Wheels of Hope wouldn't be possible without the support of our community.
One of our primary sources of bicycles is the Brevard County Sheriff's Office, which provides bicycles that can be put back into service.
We also receive bicycles directly from individuals and organizations throughout our community.
Every donated bicycle is evaluated by our volunteer mechanics. Some need relatively minor repairs. Others require several hours of work and numerous replacement parts.
And even a bicycle that can't be restored may still help someone.
Our mechanics salvage usable wheels, seats, pedals, brakes, derailleurs, and other components that can be used to repair another bicycle.
We try to make every donated bicycle count.
Working Together in Our Community
Our Partnership with Operation New Hope – Space Coast
Transportation is often one piece of a much larger journey toward stability and independence.
Wheels of Hope is proud to partner with Operation New Hope – Space Coast by providing bicycles for individuals participating in their programs who need reliable transportation.
Operation New Hope works with people impacted by the justice system, helping connect them with employment, training, case management, and other resources as they rebuild their lives.
For someone beginning a new job or working toward a fresh start, simply having a dependable way to get there can make an important difference.
Through this partnership, Wheels of Hope is able to provide the bicycle while Operation New Hope provides additional resources and support—each organization doing its part to help someone move forward.
An All-Volunteer Ministry
Wheels of Hope is powered by people willing to give their time and talents to serve others.
Our team currently includes 5 Volunteer Bicycle Mechanics and 2 Volunteer Chaplains
Our mechanics contribute the skills and countless hours required to turn donated bicycles into dependable transportation.
Our chaplains are there to listen, encourage, pray, and spend time with the people who walk through our doors.
Together, we're there to meet both practical and spiritual needs.
We don't know every circumstance that brought someone to our door. We don't know where every bicycle will eventually take them.
But we do know that everyone who comes through our doors deserves to be treated with dignity, compassion, and respect.
Wheels of Hope for Kids
Sometimes a Bicycle Can Simply Bring Joy
While our weekly adult bicycle ministry is focused primarily on transportation, twice each year Wheels of Hope does something a little different.
We put bicycles into the hands of kids.
Wheels of Hope holds two special children's bicycle giveaways each year—one during the Christmas season and another in early summer.
We typically provide 70–80 children's bicycles at each event.
For these special events, our volunteers prepare dozens of children's bicycles so they are safe, working properly, and ready to ride.
There's something special about watching a child receive a bicycle of their own.
These events give our volunteers, donors, and community partners another opportunity to share some joy, encouragement, and the love of Christ with families throughout our community.
Help Keep Wheels of Hope Rolling
Every bicycle that leaves our shop starts with someone giving something. It might be a bicycle gathering dust in a garage. It might be a box of bicycle parts. It might be a financial donation that purchases ten new tubes. Or it might be someone giving several hours of their time to repair a bicycle for a person they may never meet.
There are several ways you can help.
Donate a Bike
Have a bicycle you're no longer using?
Give it another purpose.
We accept donated bicycles that can either be restored and returned to the road or used for parts to help repair other bicycles.
That bicycle sitting unused in your garage could become someone's transportation to work.
Donate Parts & Supplies
With 10–12 bicycles typically distributed each week, our shop goes through a significant amount of repair parts and supplies.
Common needs include:
Tires and tubes, chains, brake pads and components, cables, seats, pedals, lights and reflectors, locks, helmets, bicycle repair supplies, even small donations help our mechanics put another bicycle back on the road.
Make a Financial Donation
The bicycles may be donated, but making them safe and dependable often isn't free.
A bicycle may need tires, tubes, brake pads, cables, a chain, lights, a lock, or other components before it can be distributed.
Financial donations allow us to purchase the parts and supplies our volunteer mechanics need to keep bicycles moving through the shop and into the hands of people who need them.
From Donation to Transportation
A bicycle is donated
Our volunteers inspect it
Our mechanics spend the time needed to repair and prepare it.
Someone in need registers for transportation.
Wheels of Hope continues providing repair support to help keep that bicycle on the road.
A safe, dependable bicycle is matched with that person.
It's a simple process.
But for the person who needs transportation, the impact may be anything but small.
More Than a Bicycle
At Wheels of Hope, we work on bicycles.
But bicycles aren't really the heart of what we do—people are.
Every bicycle represents an opportunity. An opportunity for someone to get to work. An opportunity to make an appointment. An opportunity for greater independence. An opportunity for a child to experience the joy of receiving a bicycle of their own. And an opportunity for our volunteers to serve someone, listen to their story, offer encouragement, and demonstrate the love of Christ in a practical way.
A bicycle may be what brings someone through our doors.
Our hope is that they leave with more than transportation.
Need Transportation?
Visit Wheels of Hope at the House of Hope Campus
Mondays | 7:00 AM – 10:00 AM
Bring a valid photo ID to register for a bicycle.
Donate A Bicycle
Your unused bicycle could become someone's transportation.
Help Us Keep People Moving
Your financial support helps purchase the parts needed to turn donated bicycles into dependable transportation.