Showing posts with label LIFEHouse. Show all posts
Showing posts with label LIFEHouse. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 23, 2016

Community

Community consists of a number of people with something in common that connects them in some way and that distinguishes them from others. 




Dacusville

Dacusville, not much has changed since I was a child
 growing up in this small town.

Some old faces, some new, some have left us way too soon.

New school buildings standing tall, buildings that I never got to walk the halls.
A Dacusville Gold Wave I'll always be, because Dacusville Gold Waves can't be beat. 
Go Purple, Go Gold. 

Still standing are the churches that taught us to spread the Good News,
and they are still teaching and challenging you.
  
A few things have changed,
 we now have three Dollar General Stores, and a few more traffic lights then before, and 
a new community center is now in the old school building. 

Things may continue to change in this small town, 
but what never will, is the way you'll always feel
about growing up in Dacusville. 


Dacusville is my "Home Town", it's the place I was born and raised and continue to live, it's the place I am proud to call home. 



Dacusville is a special place because of the special people, we unite as a community, we stand together, we might be small but we do BIG things..... And I am asking you to do a big thing in a small way.

Foster Care in Pickens County is rising, and there are not enough foster parents to care for the children.  LIFEchurch in our community is building LIFEhouse, "A Dacusville Community, residential safe haven for children of families in crisis; offering loving support and care to children in need of temporary residential care." The project is estimated to cost 2.6 Million dollars but I say we can build it for five dollars. 


"Just Five" Action Plan
Can five dollars really make a difference?
It can in the life of a child, it can build a home. 


Five dollars in your hands can buy one meal, but five dollars in the hands of LIFEhouse can build a home. Will you give this small offering and do a BIG thing? Will you help build LIFEhouse?




A gofundme account has been set up for you to easily donate, please consider what you can do for a child. 




Monday, September 7, 2015

LIFEHouse

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Children,
born into a world
full of unknowns and uncertainties
.......dependent on us. 




In Pickens County, "We currently have over 70 kids in care and only six foster homes, so that means over 80 percent of our kids are placed out of county."

"We got 160 more kids in care in 2014 year than we did the previous year.  In 2013 we served 509 children in foster care.  This year we're up to 675."-Carla Poole, DFCS Case Manger 



Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this:

to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world. -James 1:27









The LIFEHouse Project

LIFEHouse is a Dacusville community residential safe haven for children of families in crisis; offering loving support and care to children in need of temporary residential care.  

The initial capabilities of LIFEHouse will provide care for eight children.  

Pastors Melissa and Chad Albertson

VISION:
To provide the highest quality of loving care for the children of Pickens County families in crisis.



MISSION:
Supporting children of families in crisis through residential, educational and outreach services through a multicultural, non-denominational organization.






"A dream is becoming a reality!  God is so Good!" -Melissa Albertson



For this dream to continue to become a reality we need YOU....



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Want to make a difference in the life of a child?

 You can help LIFEHouse by donating your time, resources, or financially.

May he defend the afflicted among the people and save the children of the
Directors of LIFEHouse
Rob and Karen McElyea
needy; may he crush the oppressor -Psalm 72:4


To get involved contact us at:
864-246-1562

LIFEchurch 
199 Thomas Mill Rd. Easley, SC 29640
https://www.facebook.com/lifechurchsc?fref=ts














"Write the vision and make it plain on tablets, that whoever sees it can run with it"















*Reinhardt, Angela (2015). Pickens in desperate need of foster parents. www.pickensprogressonline

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