“Dear Friends,
With the pending departure of both of our current Family Promise families, we are in the process of screening and evaluating new families for our program.
We are aware that many of our Host and Supporting congregations routinely help or support families that may be temporarily homeless.
As participants in the Family Promise network, you have a sense of the people with whom you would feel comfortable sharing fellowship and welcoming into your congregation’s “home”.
If you know of potential candidates for Family Promise, we welcome your referrals. Of course, we will interview and properly vet each candidate according to our program guidelines.
Please call the Family Promise office at 561-318-8864 if you would like to discuss a potential referral or have any questions about
making a referral to the program. All referrals will be kept in the strictest confidentiality and the referral source would not be accountable for any family’s acceptance or non-acceptance into the program. We also ask that you share this with your respective Rabbis, Priests or Pastors because they may be aware of situations where we could help.
As always, we recognize your investments of time, energy and love as a part of the Family Promise “family”.
Rhonda, Audrey and Tracy”

If you know of any family who is without a home at present or is at risk or becoming so in the near future, please refer them to this program. It will change their lives, and yours! God bless, Cindy

I know it sounds trite and cliché, but please remember, every day is a gift from God, that is why it is called ‘the present’.
Donn

We are made to make a difference. There is a reason why God did not make you a chair, God created you for a purpose. Actually God created you for a multitude of purposes, you are a multi-purpose being, created by God to serve others and to love others and laugh with others, and sometimes to laugh by yourself, and sometimes to be loved, and sometimes to receive service, to sometimes be alone and sometimes to be in relationships and in community with others.

Too many times we let failure stop us. We make an attempt, we fail and then we give up. We make an attempt, we get hurt, we give up. Most of us can not remember the first time we tried to walk, but I can guarantee you, you did not meet with success on your first attempt. You failed. Sometimes you got hurt. But you kept trying, you did not give up, and you became a ‘walker’.

The point is we are called to be risk-takers, but we live in a society that is dominated by fear. We worry about our health, our finances, our future, our children’s future, our grand-children’s future, our country’s future, our planet’s future, etc. We worry about failure. We worry about pain, usually ours, occasionally somebody else’s.

So here’s the good news. The fear will never go away. Never. But it does not need to dominate us. It does not need to rob us of the joy and the excitement. It does not need to bind us and confine us. How many times did Thomas Edison try to invent the light bulb?

Life is not a spectator sport. We are not called to watch life pass us by. We are called to get involved, to make a difference, to take risks. Not silly risks, not dangerous risks, not stupid risks, but to take a chance, to take a small step, and if we fall, to get up and try again.

So congratulations on trying to make a change, keep it going, and if it didn’t work, make and adjustment and try again. Growth, even spiritual growth will almost always be uncomfortable, and sometimes fearful, but it will always be faithful. And being faithful means trusting in God.
Donn