Homeless Issues #69
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Homeless Issues #69 Nomadic Shelter Rundown
Host Churches, Where the homeless stayed overnight: Cold Springs Community Church (2 nights per week), Green Valley Community Church (2 nights per week), Foothills United Methodist Church (one night per week), Solid Rock Faith Center (one night per week), Federated Church (one or two nights per month), New Hope Fellowship Church (one night per month), Christlike Services (two nights per month). Participating Churches who provide volunteers at host churchs; Cold Springs Community Church: Cameron Park Christian Center (one night per week), Rolling Hills Community Church (one night per week) Major Transportation Support: Mercy Way Rescue Church, Hangtown Haven, Inc., Christlike Services
Supporting groups who have provided or will provide financial support: St. Stephan’s Lutheran Church, First Lutheran Church, El Dorado Community Foundation, City of Placerville.
Bless all of you. And keep the faith to repeat your love for those who have the least in our community A special thanks for the time, sweat, tears, frustrations that Pastor Frank Gates endured. ………………………………………………………. She said. ” The effort to go to the store and select the ingredients for a cake, take it home, measure the ingredients, wait for it to cook, all before I can take a bite. Why? When someone else will just give me a piece of cake?” …… “(Why make the effort?) Someone will come up with the food and a place to sleep?” The enabled and the enabler both get satisfaction out of what they do. One feels safe in that someone else will provide for them, and the other feels good that they get recognition. “I’ll just call —- or —– if you don’t ……” and ”Give me my free tent!!” How can we teach, by example, accountability? Where does that entitlement attitude come from? ……… Do we bunch in the mentally challenged homeless with our concerns?? ………………………………………………………. Hangtown Haven showed that, responsible, accountable, homeless persons can be an asset. Yes, they had some bad days, a few, misdirected policies, but overall it helped lift persons who were in need and wanted to make an effort towards getting themselves out of homelessness and begin a new start, that start and incentive to move “up.”. ……………………………………………….. Pattie’s Thoughts Facts need to be brought out: Regarding a statement from Placerville city
There are a few important points that the city did not bring out in their report;
Until our community can get together and provide minimum services to our homeless neighbors, they will continue to camp out and panhandle illegally crowding our jails and taking up the time of our law enforcement officers who should be spending their efforts enforcing our laws against real crimes. ………………………………………………. This newsletter has praised the Mayor and City Council members of Placerville city very highly over the past year. But when the bowels of the city exploded, and the flush ensued, the Mayor and the city tried to keep their heads above the swelling water. Way….. tooo bad! ……………………………………………. Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune. Plato …………………………………………. This year’s nomadic shelter was filled with new adventures in caring. We encountered many new faces and some we have seen for years. The number of young people that used our services this year had gone up, along with the increase in drug use. Alongside the drug use came the loss of life which we all felt and grieved. More than ever though, I think it put a resolve in our spirits to not give up and to work as a team to help facilitate lasting help and positive change within our homeless community. With God leading the way all things are possible. Paula Lee Solid Rock Faith Center …………………………………………… Please send this to others whom care about those in our community who have the very least. See below! |
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