July 29, 2011

Dear Friend of the Mission,
When a homeless man comes to the Mission, he usually has lost touch with his family and in many cases, he has greatly damaged if not destroyed his relationships with his loved ones.   One of the goals of our New Life Program is to help restore and heal those broken family relationships.   Here are just a few snippets of heartwarming stories of restored and renewed relationships between our men and their families:

• After being banned from his father’s house, Joe now takes his dad out to dinner and is given money by his father to pay his father’s utility bills.
• George now vacations with a sister that he never knew he had.
• Douglas recently moved out of the Mission to care for his elderly and ailing parents and to help care for his grandmother who suffers from dementia.
• Robert is raising his young daughter Helen and is providing her with an excellent education at a highly respected private school .
• Theodore is providing for and actively helping to take care of his son who suffers from autism; last November he brought his son to the Mission for our  Thanksgiving Feast.
• Paul loved his two daughters enough to let the foster family they lived with for
  most of their childhood years adopt them.  He rejoices that he is warmly welcomed into their home and is able to keep in touch with his daughters.
• Roy recently left the Mission before officially graduating to work as many hours as he can to make enough money to help his son attend college this fall.
• And Mike Sellars, who you read about on the enclosed second page, was invited by his sister in New Jersey to live with her until he could rent his own apartment.  Her kindness made it possible for Mike to relocate to New Jersey.

Your kind and generous gifts help to make these restored family relationships possible.  Our men thank you, and so do their families!

Rebuilding families with you,

Robert A. Emberger, D.Min.
Executive Director