Church: Use Christmas Money To Help Homeless

[...] he said, so many people have talked about how outrageous holiday spending — and the consumerism that drives the holiday — has become. Slaughter calls himself chief dreamer at the church and a spiritual entrepreneur of ministry marketplace innovations. Since 2005, his church has raised $7 million to build homes and a school and to improve agriculture and health care in Darfur. The money would be used to either build a house or buy and renovate a house for the Greenville Area Interfaith Hospitality Network to use as transitional housing for a homeless family. To further the effort, Advent has printed brochures and dressed up a corner of the sanctuary foyer with huge boxes bearing the sign "to GAIHN from Advent." GAIHN works with places of worship to provide temporary housing in education buildings not used at night. Advent hosts GAIHN families four times a year, and members have worked on some of the few houses GAIHN owns that offer families a place to return to sound financial footing. Lives will be changed, she said, when people truly act on the idea of loving neighbors as ourselves. Members have already promised free heating and air conditioning and electrical work. Shelters are single gender and there are age limitations on male children staying with their mothers.

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