Our Mission

To help every international student and refugee family in Fayetteville feel at home by providing hope, love, and needed resources.

Our Values

Cultural Sensitivity

We are sensitive and accommodating to those we serve who come from many different cultures around the world.

Partnership

We partner with others in all that we do. We partner with volunteers, churches, non-profits, and other businesses.

Service

We aim to have an attitude of a servant in the work that we do. We are always looking for ways to help and accommodate others.

Respect

We treat everyone with kindness and compassion, seeing and treating each person that God has created with dignity and worth.

Our Story

(the parent organization), and still resides in Fayetteville, Arkansas. It has grown into a 3,000sq foot warehouse where furniture donations are kept and volunteer trainings are held. Furniture deliveries now occur almost every Saturday of each semester. We have served students and refugees from over 40 different countries. In addition, Furniture Friends has launched new serve opportunities through free grocery store transportation events, women’s events, and volunteer small group gatherings. Furniture Friends is led by a small full-time global worker staff team and global-minded volunteers who serve international student and refugee families in Northwest Arkansas.

Furniture Friends began 25 years ago when Bill Moeller saw that many international students at the University of Arkansas had no furniture in their apartments. The students also had no friends to meet them upon their arrival or help them adjust to life in the US. Led by his faith in God, he began collecting donated furniture items in his garage but quickly ran out of room space as he tried to keep up with the demand for needed furniture items. Recognizing how large the need was, he began partnering with many local churches to collect and deliver furniture to students as well as provide friendship connections between those students and local American volunteers. Today, Furniture Friends is overseen by Forefront Experience