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Host Site

VOLUNTEERS OF ALL FAITHS CHANGING LIVES

Family Promise’s shelter program relies on a partnership of interfaith congregations and other volunteer groups to help local families facing homelessness. Our host sites provide lodging, meals and hospitality to families in need. For families in the program, each day begins with breakfast at a host site with volunteers, followed by a van ride to our Day Center. In the evening, guests return to the host site, where volunteers provide dinner and spend some quality time. The evening hours are for homework, relaxing and family fun time, as they would be with any family. Each day ends with the family all together, under one roof.

HOST CONGREGATIONS

Local houses of worship provide temporary overnight lodging in otherwise unused spaces in their buildings. A host congregation team of volunteers may be involved with the following:

 

  • Cooking and hosting dinner

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  • Spending the evening with families, talking, tutoring kids or playing games

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  • Sleeping overnight in the congregation

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  • Coordinating children’s crafts & activities

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  • Donating necessary supplies for the hosting week

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  • Setting up and breaking down guest families’ rooms

MANAGEABLE COMMITMENT

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  • Families stay overnight, not 24 hours a day

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  • Each congregation hosts families for just one week, four times a year

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  • Guests consist of only two to four families   (14 children & adults max)

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  • Family Promise of Butler County runs criminal background checks and drug screenings on all program participants

 

  • A Family Promise driver transports the families to and from the host facility and carries their bedding and luggage to each new host location

We need your help! Can your faith group become a host or support congregation?

Become A Host Congregation

Thanks for submitting!

WE THANK OUR DEDICATED VOLUNTEERS!

Committed Host Congregations

  • CenterPointe Christian Church

  • Christ the King Lutheran Church

  • Crestview Presbyterian Church

  • Dot's House (St. Julie Billart, St. Peter in Chains, St. Aloysius)

  • Faith Community UMC

  • Lighthouse Church

  • Lord of Life Lutheran

  • New Life Vineyard Church

  • St. Maximilian Kolbe

  • Royal Redeemer Lutheran

Committed Support Congregations

  • Bethany Church

  • Fairfield Church of Christ

  • Jacksonburg UMC

  • Pleasant Ridge UMC

  • Princeton Pike Church of God

  • The Presbyterian Church (Hamilton)

  • LIndenwald  Community Church

  • Park Ave. UMC

  • First UMC - United Women in Faith

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