Greeting Saints,
3/17/14
2014 is already
off to an incredible start. As we
continue to grow our outreaches, homeless works, drug programs and affiliates,
we have specifically concentrated on our largest endeavor, our overnight stay
facilities.
The Disciple
House is one such facility. It is a men’s
half way house program that is designed specifically around salvation and
Biblical principles. Our program must be
applied for and we only take the ones that we believe are trying, the best they
know how, to surrender to Christ. Men
that live here actually work for our furniture store and build new dorm rooms
for future clients. They have a very
rigorous schedule and routine. Clients
go to church 3 to 5 times a week, have Bible study and Bible class 2 to 3 times
a week, they do their own laundry, cooking and cleaning and have to meet
specific requirements in order to stay in good standing with the program. While staying at The Disciple House they
report to a dorm monitor, a teacher, a Pastor and Brother Todd on a daily basis. While living at The Disciple House, all
clients attend Bethany Holiness Church full time, attend many other special
services and they have dedicated times at night to pray and study
together. We also make sure t
As they progress they are assisted in making sure that they have no
warrants, get all proper identification, apply for jobs until they receive one
and then get into an apartment of their own.
hat there
is good clean fun and fellowship every week.
The men that are
with us today are an amazing group of guys. They have problems ranging from addictions,
homelessness and severe financial crisis.
We do all that we can to love and help them all. Our clients as of today range in age from mid
50’s to early 20’s. Sin, Satan and
circumstance are equal opportunity destroyers.
The Disciple
House is only one of the overnight stay facilities that we are currently
administrating and supporting. We have
recently donated more beds and more materials to The Life House that is run by
our affiliates in Kentucky.
I have heard
many ministers over the years preach, teach and complain from their pulpits, about
the thieves, addicts, dead beat dads and so forth, in their communities, but
our staff is literally, 24/7/365, DOING something about it. It has been a long and rigorous 18 years of
ministry to get to this point, but to watch these guys clean up, repent, work,
fight through, discuss, question, overcome, get to see their kids, be reunited
with family, pay their debt to society and accept the debt that Christ paid for
them……..makes it all worth while. Will
you help sponsor The Disciple House and our other outreaches? We literally have to buy all of their food,
sheets, towels, toiletries and much of their clothes every month in order for
them to stay here.
These men are
real people. They are husbands, fathers,
children, nephews and friends. They
hurt, they cry, they apologize and they repent.
Together with the help of HMA, our many supporters and God Almighty,
they are being changed. We are truly,
now more than ever, reaching the least, the last and the lost.
Please continue, or begin, to partner with us. We
desperately need more prayer warriors, more monthly supporters and more 15
passenger vans. God bless each and every
one of you. I hope to see as many of you
as possible this summer and fall as I evangelize, itinerate and preach several
revivals, camp meetings and conferences.
Your humble servant,
Rev. D. Todd Sloggett
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