Christ Changes Lives!
He needs your hands to help those who are...
...sleeping in their car in a large department store parking lot
...camping in an abandoned house
...looking hungrily through the window of a local restaurant
...inside thrift shops seeking clothing
...at the doors of your churches mid-week, asking for help, or at the local food banks or the Soup Kitchen
- The current economic situation has increased the numbers of those who need help. After a while on the street, they lose hope.
- Lebanon's homeless people need hope, help and supportive housing, where they can be aided by local service agencies, churches, and volunteers.
- We work with Linn County Mental Health, Parole and Probation, East Linn Health Center, and others to serve our resident's needs.
- It does help—one resident just said she is now trying to be the person God knows she can be.
- We are challenged each month to meet our rents, utilities and staff costs. Can you see Christ in these homeless faces and help us serve them?
- Please go to Donate on the Index list to donate online with any major credit card.
Our History
Our project is the outgrowth of a meeting in February, 2005, of 18 service providers from Scio, Brownsville, Lebanon and Sweet Home. These caregivers—who currently serve low–income and homeless people with food banks, clothing boxes, and soup kitchens—all agreed that the greatest need of the homeless in the Greater Lebanon Area is for overnight shelter that allows a framework for rehabilitation, responsibility and accountability. We must help the homeless lose their sense of worthlessness and hopelessness so they can become proud, contributing citizens.
We plan to work closely with all agencies, public or non–profit, who are helping the poor. We take part in the Linn County 10-Year Plan to End Homelessness, which has identified approximately 220 homeless adults, as well as some 313 children, in the Greater Lebanon area. Our goal is to do all we possibly can to end chronic homelessness for these citizens who are so vulnerable, who are most in need of our help.