2021/2022 Night Stay Recap

2021/2022 Night Stay Recap

We want to personally thank all who volunteered for the CAPS Night Stay Program for your dedication this season. We hope that each year more of our past host churches will feel more comfortable opening their doors and hearts to the homeless citizens of Suffolk. We are...
The Night Stay Experience

The Night Stay Experience

This is a guest post by Hayden Blythe, Director of Hope for Suffolk After last week, I was pretty tired… and I know some of you were too!  On Wednesday we finished hosting our first week of the Night Stay Shelter, a rotating homeless shelter run by...
Relational Discipleship, Part 2

Relational Discipleship, Part 2

Welcome back to our blog posts on Discipleship! We hope that you gleaned Biblical knowledge from “Discipleship Part 1.” The focus of this post will be community. As a result of sin, each human being has poverty of the soul. Each one longs to be restored to perfect...
Relational Discipleship, Part 1

Relational Discipleship, Part 1

In previous posts, we have discussed poverty and relief. When Helping Hurts states, “Poverty reaches into more of humanity than the material. There is a poverty of soul and spirit that also needs ministry.” The ministry of CAPS delights in seeing our clients find...
How to Avoid Paternalism

How to Avoid Paternalism

In our discussions of relief and rehabilitation, we need to also discuss how we can avoid paternalism. Paternalism is, in essence, doing things for people that they can do for themselves. We should avoid it like the plague. As our resource puts it: “Avoid Paternalism....