Benefit Sing for the "Barely Homeless".
December 3rd. 4pm - 8pm
Hosted LIVE on the Internet from
Covenant Holiness Church
Leesburg, Fl.
Listen Live:
About the Barely Homeless.... (Rev. Todd Sloggett)...
This year things are very different on the streets of America. Normally, our church services, rides, meals, clothing banks, food banks, job training programs etc. are the best things that we can do outside of love, prayer, correction and instruction. But for the past several months I have found a brand new group of people on the streets that we have never worked with before. I call them the "barely homeless". They are not the run of the mill drunks, drug addicts, prostitutes and gang members that we are used to working with. These people had houses, cars and jobs just a few months ago. As a matter of fact, most of them still do have jobs.
You see, what has happened, is as the economy shrinks then it knocks everyone down a notch or two. If you were a multi-millionaire, now maybe you are just a millionaire. If you were living high one the hog, maybe now you are just comfortable. If you used to be just comfortable, perhaps now you have had to tighten the belt. You see my point. Well, the people that were some of the poorest of the regular Joes amongst us have been knocked down a notch as well. And now, they are barely homeless.
Most of these people are couples with children. A lot of them had their house foreclosed and they spent every dime trying to stop it from happening and now they are trying to live in a shelter or under a bridge for just a few months to make enough money to get an apartment. Lots of them actually have jobs waiting for them. I know a man that has a job making $14.10 an hour waiting for him. The job is over two hundred miles away and he has no way of getting to it.
I know several who have jobs waiting for them and all they need is a $10.00 identification card or a $45.00 certificate. You may be saying, "then why don't you help them?" We are as fast as we can. Just last week we got four more identification cards and two more certificates. The problem is, right now I am working with twenty six of these guys and we find more every week. If all each one needed was an I.D. that would still be $260.00. But oh, it would be worth it.
The average person in the barely homeless category that I am working with needs about $75.00 to get a chance at putting their life back together. Of course our government will spend an average of $8,500.00 a piece on them, of our money, and it will take them way to long and by that time a lot of them WILL be alcoholics, drug addicts, prostitutes and gang members. For this CHRIST-mas season we are going to try a brand new approach. We are going to specifically target the ones that are in this condition and try to bump them back up into society. What greater CHRIST-mas gift could we give these people than another chance at having their entire lives back.
We will be posting the link to listen to the Sing LIVE, right here on this Blog, on our Website and on Facebook. So keep watching and praying.
All donations from this event will go to help the "Barely Homeless" project in Tulsa, Ok.
Please get involved... together we can reach the Least, the Last and the Lost.
(Pastor J.R. Smith)
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