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We would like your input on our proposed name change - ChristWalk Supportive Housing. Any comments would be appreciated! We abandoned the idea of a traditional homeless shelter last year, and have since pursued transitional supportive housing. This follows the Housing First model where five unrelated adults live together as a family in a shared housing arrangement, supporting each other's efforts to remain addiction-free.
The photo shows the painting and framed poem we dedicated at our Open House in July. Both were donated in memory of Fred Claxton by Lebanon Artist George Earl Hamilton. The oil painting is entitled, Beside the Still Waters.
Our residents continue to work hard doing landscape cleanup work to earn money to contribute to the rent! How wonderful to see God stirring Lebanon's compassionate hearts to provide work to our residents in the name of Jesus!
Our residents are proud of working at doing odd jobs and yard work so that they are able to pay our monthly rent! It is a joy for them to be able to work, in spite of having a record that has, in the past, kept them unemployed and without a place to rent.
They have many skills, such as landscaping, tree felling, auto mechanics, welding, machining, and irrigation systems. If you have work to be done in any of these areas, please call Walker House at 258-7171, or Executive Director Steve Apgar at 730-9027. The photo shows three of our residents on the shaded front porch of Walker House. The house is located at the corner of Park and Isabella on the north end of town. We believe that Jesus Christ changes lives; we are a Christian organization.
Our board members come from eight local churches—the First United Methodist Church,
the Lebanon Mennonite Church, the First Presbyterian Church, the Sweet Home Community Chapel,
River Center, Lebanon Calvary Chapel, Crowfoot Baptist, and St. Bernard in Scio.
The new Walker House is a beautiful place!
