Monday, November 30, 2015


My little flock, don’t be afraid. God is your Father, and your Father’s Great JOY is to give you His Kingdom. Luke 12:32 Homes of Hope is a Not-for-profit organization which is privately funded and the gifts of love and prayers will help homeless families get into a home. Send your Gift of Love today via PayPal.com to go2hope@yahoo.com
 

Saturday, November 14, 2015

Are you Homeless?

Are you Homeless?

1. Grab yourself a $10/month gym membership at Planet Fitness so you stay clean, you'll need money down, a checking account and ID.
2. If you're camping out in your car, make sure you park overnight in a well lit area where other cars park (like a hotel). It's VERY Important to park next to other cars so you won't be bothered
3. Try to have three outfits and wash your laundry often. Dress nicely everyday.
4. Eating out can be difficult if you don't have too much money, but there are places like Panera Bread and Starbucks that have a point system where you can earn free food! I eat at Starbucks almost everyday! They have FREE Wifi and you can have unlimited coffee and tea refills all day long with the GOLD CARD once you accumulate 30 stars, one item=one point, so buy one item at a time. Also watch your email for special offers for extra stars.
5. There is NO SHAME in asking for help! I've learned plenty of times to ask for help! People have often said to me: it's a shame I didn't know, I would have helped!
6. Do you need an address? Get a PO Box and use the street address, 123 Main St #555, Anytown, MA USA. It's a Safe and Secure way to get established. You will need to go online with a valid credit card, ID and pay for 3 months. It will generally cost between $15 & $25.
7. Prayer changes things! God Answers Prayer! Jesus, I put all my hope in You, I feel lost and I want to be found. I believe You came to my heart today, I was looking for someone to save me. I believe that You died for me, that when You died You took my place! I believe You rose into Heaven, and when You rose, You took all the pain in my heart, and brought me to New Life! I Love You Jesus, thank You for Loving me. Amen!

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Isaiah 41:17-20

Isaiah 41:17-20
The Message

The poor and homeless are desperate for water,
their tongues parched and no water to be found.
But I'm there to be found, I'm there for them,
and I, God of Israel, will not leave them thirsty.
I'll open up rivers for them on the barren hills,
spout fountains in the valleys.
I'll turn the baked-clay badlands into a cool pond,
the waterless waste into splashing creeks.
I'll plant the red cedar in that treeless wasteland,
also acacia, myrtle, and olive.
I'll place the cypress in the desert,
with plenty of oaks and pines.
Everyone will see this. No one can miss it—
unavoidable, indisputable evidence
That I, God, personally did this.
It's created and signed by The Holy of Israel.

Isaiah 58:6-14

Isaiah 58:6-14

"Here is the sort of fast I want —
releasing those unjustly bound,
untying the thongs of the yoke,
letting the oppressed go free,
breaking every yoke,
sharing your food with the hungry,
taking the homeless poor into your house,
clothing the naked when you see them,
fulfilling your duty to your kinsmen!"

Then your light will burst forth like the morning,
your new skin will quickly grow over your wound;
your righteousness will precede you,
and Adonai's glory will follow you.

Then you will call, and Adonai will answer;
you will cry, and He will say, "Here I am."

If you will remove the yoke from among you,
stop false accusation and slander,
generously offer food to the hungry
and meet the needs of the person in trouble;
then your light will rise in the darkness,
and your gloom become like noon.

Adonai will always guide you;
He will satisfy your needs in the desert,
He will renew the strength in your limbs;
so that you will be like a watered garden,
like a spring whose water never fails.

You will rebuild the ancient ruins,
raise foundations from ages past,
and be called "Repairer of broken walls,
Restorer of streets to live in."

"If you hold back your foot on Shabbat
from pursuing your own interests on my holy day;
if you call Shabbat a delight,
Adonai's holy day, worth honoring;
then honor it by not doing your usual things
or pursuing your interests or speaking about them.
If you do, you will find delight in Adonai —
I will make you ride on the heights of the land
and feed you with the heritage of your ancestor Ya'akov,
for the mouth of Adonai has spoken."

Complete Jewish Bible (CJB)

Vision to help the poor and homeless...

Vision to help the poor and homeless...

1. Heart healthy food
2. A lot of poor/homeless don't have places to cook canned/fresh food...so the answer would be gift cards for Boston Market, Starbucks, Chick-Fil-A, Wawa, and Panera Bread.
Gift cards for Walgreens, Rite Aid and CVS are also helpful for personal items. Gift cards and cash for gas is helpful too, especially if they live in their car.
3. Some poor/homeless can't afford laundry facilities, offering to wash/return the clothes is extremely helpful
4. A lot of poor/homeless people aren't in good health, offering vitamins are helpful.
5. Many poor/homeless people are discouraged/depressed, A Kind Word helps, a cup of coffee, prayer helps, take them for a haircut, give a listening ear, and show them love!
6. If you've once been poor or you just want to give back or pay it forward to God, would you consider taking a soul into your home?

Remember one word, one kind deed, and a smile can change someone's day!
You can Save a Life before you Save a Soul!

If you would like to help the homeless, please consider sending A GIFT TO A FRIEND! www.paypal.com to Go2Pray@yahoo.com

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Hope, Healing and Happiness

Hope, Healing and Happiness

We all need rest, we've all been in some type of emotional and physical pain. It's so essential that if you miss time, your body and mind will suffer. I've experienced loss of proper sleep by being in emotional and physical pain. I've lost a home, had to put everything I owned in storage, gave my belongings away, been homeless, lived and traveled in my car. I'm Passionate about Helping the Homeless because I lost my home 4 years ago due to Hurricane Irene. I've been blessed to have a car. I've met other homeless people who don't have a car to rest or travel in. Some have lost their home through natural circumstances or have lost jobs and have debilitating health problems. Most of all, the worst loss anyone can face is the loss of hope. There's no pill or substance that can give you hope. There's only a Perfect Love that can give you Hope. Once someone knows The Love of Jesus, He will give you True Peace.

I want to share my Dream and Vision of Hope with you. Because I didn't choose to be homeless, I truly believe it's the path God chose for my life, so I could see some things. My Prayer is to have Homes of Hope so people can rest and feel safe. Give people hope, real hope. Not occasionally when the weather is too cold or too hot, but a real place to live. Give people dignity, a place to belong. We're all part of a family, a great big family that cares for each other. When one person is broken, we lift each other up.

Homes of Hope would enable people to work and be cared for so no longer would they be seen as a burden on society. It would allow married couples to enjoy each other's company. It would allow families to stay together.

Isaiah 58:6-14

To help with the vision,
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Thank you for your support!
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Thursday, November 12, 2015

Tiny Houses for the Homeless

Tiny Houses for the Homeless


By Michelle Matthews | mmatthews@al.com
Email the author |September 16, 2015 at 11:20 AM

Since Aug. 31, a meme claiming that Mobile "is building a tiny house village to end homelessness" has made the rounds on Facebook. The post encourages people to "Like and share if you want something like this in your town."

Originally published by Dionne Mahaffey of Sandy Springs, Ga., the post was liked by more than 23,000 people and has been shared more than 127,000 times.

But Mobile isn't getting a village of tiny houses anytime soon.

The photos used in Mahaffey's post actually depict the micro-houses that are part of Community First! Village being built by Mobile Loaves & Fishes, an Austin, Texas-based social outreach ministry.

The Mobile Loaves & Fishes website (www.MLF.org) describes Community First! as "a 27-acre master-planned project in East Austin designed to provide affordable, sustainable housing and support for Central Texans who have been chronically homeless."

The project is "80 percent through construction, said Alan Graham, the chief executive officer of Mobile Loaves & Fishes. "We'll be done within the next 60 days and start moving people in."

Community First! includes a mix of affordable housing options, from fifth-wheel RVs to micro-houses to canvas-sided cottages, with amenities including a community garden, a chicken operation, bee hives, a medical facility, WiFi, walking trails and much more, according to the website.

Graham said he was unaware that photos of the tiny houses were being used to promote the idea of a homeless village in Mobile until he was contacted by an AL.com reporter. "But there's no heartburn here" over the mistake, he said. "It's no hair off our backs at all."

The mistake occurred, presumably, because Austin's "Mobile Loaves & Fishes" was confused with the name of the city of Mobile.

When asked via email if he knew about a proposed tiny house village, George Talbot, senior director of communications and external affairs for the city of Mobile mayor's office, wrote, "I can only speak for the City, but it's not one of our initiatives." He suggested that it could be "a private deal or nonprofit/church project."

"It's not happening yet, but we have people who are looking into it," Housing First Inc. Chief Executive Officer Eric Jefferson said. "We do have an interest as an organization in tiny homes, and we're trying to get the infrastructure in place to do that."

Jefferson first heard about the meme Tuesday morning, he said, when the chief operating officer of the homeless coalition made him aware of it.

Housing First is trying to turn the former Days Inn hotel on the Beltine at I-65 and Airport Boulevard into affordable housing units – a $10 million project, Jefferson said.

According to the most recent point-in-time count done on Jan. 29, Jefferson said, 640 individuals in Mobile and Baldwin counties met the "homeless" criteria as defined by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). "But that doesn't take into account the number defined by the Department of Education as being homeless," he said, which includes some 6,000 kids.

"We're working with two and sometimes three different definitions," he said. "But the overall homeless numbers are down."

In the past three years, he said, 25 percent of people in the Housing First program "have gone to self-sufficiency," meaning they can pay their own rent and bill and don't need additional services.

A tiny house village to house homeless people isn't on its way to Mobile "yet," Jefferson said – but he anticipates that it could be on the horizon.

Dionne Mahaffey, who apparently originally posted the meme on her Facebook timeline – writing "C'mon Atlanta" and tagging nine of her friends, including a few in Mobile – is, according to a short bio on her Twitter account (@atlcelebrity) an "entrepreneur, volunteer, journalist, life coach, techie." She did not respond to a request for comment.

http://www.al.com/news/mobile/index.ssf/2015/09/is_mobile_building_a_tiny_hous.html

Tiny Houses for the Homeless

Tiny Houses for the Homeless

Monday, November 9, 2015

Give Them Homes

Give Them Homes

NEWS MAY 3 2015, 7:45 PM ET
Utah's Strategy for the Homeless
by JACOB RASCON and NBC NEWS

Utah's Chronic Homeless Rate Drops 91% When It Gives the Needy Housing

By the end of 2015, the chronically homeless population of Utah may be virtually gone. And the secret is quite simple:

Give homes to the homeless.

"We call it housing first, employment second," said Lloyd Pendleton, director of Utah's Homeless Task Force.

Even Pendleton used to think trying to eradicate homelessness using such an approach was a foolish idea.

"I said: 'You guys must be smoking something. This is totally unrealistic,'" Pendleton said.

But the results are hard to dispute.

In 2005, Utah was home to 1,932 chronically homeless. By April 2015, there were only 178 — a 91 percent drop statewide.

"It's a philosophical shift in how we go about it," Pendleton said. "You put them in housing first ... and then help them begin to deal with the issues that caused them to be homeless."

Chronically homeless persons — those living on the streets for more than a year, or for four times in three years, and have a debilitating condition — make up 10 percent of Utah's homeless population but take up more than 50 percent of the state's resources for the homeless.

The Homeless Task Force reported it costs Utah $19,208 on average per year to care for a chronically homeless person, including related health and jail costs. Pendleton found that to house and provide a case worker for the same person costs the state about $7,800.

'THEY'RE PART OF OUR CITIZENRY. THEY'RE NOT THEM AND US. IT'S "WE."'
"It's more humane, and it's cheaper," Pendleton said. "I call them 'homeless citizens.' They're part of our citizenry. They're not them and us. It's 'we.'"

For six years, Suzi Wright and her sons, DJ and Brian, shuttled among friend's homes, a van and the Salt Lake City homeless shelter.

After Utah gave Wright a two-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment, she got a job as a cleaning supervisor at her apartment complex.

"It makes you feel a lot better about yourself, just being able to support your family," Wright said.

Those given apartments under the Housing First program pay rent of 30 percent of their income or $50, whichever is greater.

Army veteran Don Williams had been sleeping under a bush for 10 years when Utah offered him an apartment.

When he realized they weren't joking, he "jumped for joy," he said, laughing. "It was a blessing. A real blessing."

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/utahs-strategy-homeless-give-them-homes-n352966

Sunday, November 8, 2015

Fasting in the Word

Pretty Amazing Grace

Prayer for Healing

Prayer for Healing

Abba Father, We come boldly before Your throne to obtain grace to help in time of need. We have confidence in Your Word, and we take hold of Your promises to heal us. According to Isaiah 53:5 and 1 Peter 2:24, We resist sickness and disease. We speak with our mouth and believe in our heart that we are healed of all sickness and disease.

Your Word says that Jesus bore all our sickness and diseases, and He carried our sorrows, so we receive healing now. We know and declare that Jesus is our Healer. We give You all the praise for providing everything we need to walk in wholeness.

Thank You for satisfying us with long life. Abba Father, we are thankful that You are no respecter of persons. What You do for one, You will do for all who ask and believe by faith.

Satan, I declare to you in the Name of Jesus that you have no authority over me. According to Matthew 18:18, we bind you from operating against us in any way. Our life is hidden in Christ. You have no power to bring any part of the curse upon us. We take our stand as one who is redeemed from the curse. So you must flee now! We take our place in God and we resist you.

Abba Father, we worship You. We give You reverence. We confess that Your Word will not return to You void. We praise You for Your protection and for Your goodness upon our lives. We thank You that Satan is unable to penetrate that. Thank You for bringing total healing to us. Your Word says whatever we ask for in the Name of Jesus will be done for us. So we declare this is done. Our healing is complete. In Jesus Name! Amen.

Prayer for FAVOR

Prayer for FAVOR

Abba Father,

I declare that I have your favor today

I declare that I am strong and well able to fulfill my God given destiny; I know you are fighting my battles for me.

I declare that I am a victor and not a victim. I may have been defeated in the past but the past is past, this is new day

Your word says that "I am the head and not the tail"

Every thing I touch will prosper and succeed according to your perfect will because of your favor my Father.

I declare that by your stripes I am healed today. I will live and not die. I declare that you are restoring health unto me, and with long life you satisfy me

Father, today, I declare your favor in my relationship with you, favor in my relationship within my marriage and my family, favor in relationships with my friends, and favor in relationships in my ministry.

I want to thank you for causing me to be at the right place at the right time. I want to thank you for causing people to want to help me.

Today, Father I want to thank you for blessing me with creativity, I want to thank you for causing me to make good decisions with a clear mind

I declare that you are smiling down on me today and that your favor will be in everything I do because I am pleasing to you.

I declare that I will be blessed in the city and blessed in the country, blessed coming in and blessed going out.

I claim right now, Psalm 84:11 that you are blessing me with favor and honor and no good thing will you withhold from me because my walk is blameless.

I claim Habakkuk 2:3 that my vision is for an appointed time. Though it may tarry, I will earnestly wait for it, for it will surely come.

I declare today that I am filled with your can do power my Father. Between you and me, we are the majority and I can do all things through Christ which strengthens me.

I know that your Word says that, "no man has seen, heard or even imagined the wonderful things that you have in store for those that love you" and I want to tell you today that I love you and I want to thank you for loving me.

I want to thank you for your favor today, not because of who I am, but because of whose I am. I am a child of the most high God, the creator of the whole universe.

I commit this day to you

In Jesus name,

Amen

Hope for Today

You are not an accident child. You are a person of destiny. There are gifts and talents in you just waiting to be released. You have potential that you have not tapped into yet. You are a child of the Most High God!!! I want to encourage you to expand your vision and pursue bigger dreams. Stay in faith. Live with expectancy. Know that any moment YOUR SUDDENLY could happen! You will meet someone who has exactly what you need. You could inherit land and gain your inheritance. Suddenly you could get an idea that will lead to promotion. Miracles Happen when you stay connected to the Holy Spirit.