February 12, 2008

Wow, you need to dust out this Director's corner! Sorry about that! But let me share where all the dust is coming from.

Life at the Mission has been busy! Of course life for me has been busy all the way around. My mom has recovered well from her broken hip and is home and getting around with just a walker. That she recovered well was a huge blessing with all that has been going on at the Lighthouse.

A few months ago we heard that Casa Latina, a women's recovery program here in town was closing due to a lack of funding. We contacted them and we talked about how the Lighthouse could partner with them. As it turns out we are merging Casa Latina into Rescue Mission Alliance. In the in-between time Casa Latina closed their doors on July 31, 2007. The Lighthouse went in and with some minor repairs (painting, planting, a new roof, and a bit of remolding) and on December 1, 2007 reopened as the Lighthouses newest facilities.

There is still plenty of work to be done. And the girls and the maintenance crews are working on it. And we'd be happy to have your help. We are still in need of some smaller items: curtains, blinds, TV wall mounts, etc... And we have some larger items we would love to have someone donate: new kitchen cabinets and counter tops, storage closets, landscaping materials, new flooring, etc...

The addition of our newest facilities allows us to help more and more folks. We now have an 82 bed capacity: 10 beds in our new Life Boat Overnight Cot program, 20 beds in our Safe Harbor Emergency Shelter program, 4 beds in our Employment Search Program, and 48 beds in our Life Recovery program.

If you would like to learn more about what we do we'd love to have you come to one of our "Exploring the Journey" luncheons. We have them on the second Tuesday of each month at Noon. Please give us a call and we'll get you signed up. You could even just pop in if you end up with the time at the last minute.

And of course you can stop in for a tour any time. There really isn't anything we like to do more than give tours. As well tell the story of what we do here we get energized all over again.

Well, I best get back to work - lots to do!

         God Bless,