Our Mission
Freedom and Hope Ministries' mission is to offer a way out to people in need. We believe people can be freed from addictions through the freedom that only Jesus Christ can give. Not all, but most of the homeless have an addiction of some sort. We offer faith based help to give them a hand up and not a hand out. Our objective is to show them Christ's unconditional love and acceptance. Hope for a new life based on living by God's truths will be taught, and not the world's standards. I asked a homeless friend once this question: What is the main thing that the homeless struggle with? The answer was "we have no hope". See they have no hope of finding a job and without a job there is no hope in paying for a place to live. Therefore, for some the cycle of drug or alcohol use continues.
This is what Freedom and Hope Ministries offers to willing homeless people. We offer a faith based program with the foundation of Jesus Christ. An offer is made to the person in need to enter the program. The offer is contingent on them accepting a new way of life and letting go of their old life and trusting in God to lead them in a more productive and sustainable way of life free from the chains that have held them down.
Here is what we can do for them. We offer a place to live, food and help finding work. In exchange for the cost of the room and food, we require 40 hours a week of their time; 20 hours of community service, 16 hours job seeking and 4 hours a week attending bible study classes. Once they have a job and based on the amount of hours they work, required community service hours will be adjusted (40 hours a week of structured time will always be a requirement). Again, this is not a hand out it is a help up. God is very clear in His word that we are to work.
Freedom and Hope Ministries
I passed by the field of the sluggard And by the vineyard of the man lacking sense, And behold, it was completely overgrown with thistles; Its surface was covered with nettles, And its stone wall was broken down. When I saw, I reflected upon it; I looked, and received instruction. "A little sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of the hands to rest, "Then your poverty will come as a robber And your want like an armed man. Proverbs 24:30-34. NASB
Therefore we do not lose heart, but though our outer man is decaying, yet our inner man is being renewed day by day. 2 Corinthians 4:16 NASB