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Hosting and Supporting

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 Family 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

SUPPORT CONGREGATIONS

MANAGEABLE COMMITMENT

Support congregations are partnered with host congregations. They supply volunteers to provide the same services as volunteers from the host congregations, just not in their own facilities. 

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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 to five 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 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 or Support Congregation

Thanks for submitting!

WE THANK OUR DEDICATED VOLUNTEERS!

Network Congregations

  • Beth Israel Synagogue​

 

  • ​Christ Lutheran Church​

 

  • Covenant Presbyterian Church​

 

  • First United Methodist Church, Salem

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  • Grandin Court Baptist Church
     

  • Greene Memorial United Methodist Church
     

  • Heights Community Church
     

  • Metropolitan Community Church
     

  • Our Lady of Nazareth Catholic Church

 

  • Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church

Network Congregations

  • ​​Raleigh Court Presbyterian Church

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  • Raleigh Court United Methodist Church

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  • Restoration Church

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  • Salem Presbyterian Church

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  • St. Andrew's Catholic Church​

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  • St. John's Episcopal Church

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  • St. Paul's Episcopal Church
     

  • Second Presbyterian Church

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  • Shiloh Baptist Church
     

  • Temple Emanuel
     

  • Unitarian Universalist Church of Roanoke

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