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As a staff we have been studying Elijah using Priscilla Shirer’s study on the prophet. This study is life-changing, and we’d like to share some of the nuggets of wisdom that we are learning. We are learning that Elijah was a man just like us. This hero of the...
We are so excited to share a success story with one of our night stay guests with all of you! One of our service coordinators was on the phones at the office when we received a desperate call for shelter. The client expressed that she was staying in a tent with a...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
Continuing on our theme of poverty alleviation through relief, rehabilitation and development, consider this excerpt from Corbett and Fikkert’s When Helping Hurts: “Once relief efforts have stopped the bleeding, it is time to move quickly into rehabilitation, working...
In 2012 a group of churches in the city of Suffolk formed an alliance--a coalition against poverty--to more effectively provide immediate financial assistance to people in our city experiencing a financial crisis. Since that time, through the generous support of this...
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