Help 'First Step Back Home' Help Our Local Homeless

What is the “First Step Back Home Homeless Ministry”?

 
  Since 2005, First Step Back Home Homeless Ministry (FSBH) has helped single men because most existing charities refuse to help. FSBH is a safety net for those that other agencies cannot or will not help. (These agencies have more resources than FSBH and most of their programs are well established.) FSBH is not trying to add services or reinvent the process. It is serving individuals who fall outside those program's support parameters and fill gaps in existing agencies services. When circumstances involving women and children arise, FSBH provides temporary, interim help while directing them to those agencies better equipped to meet their needs.
  Founder, administrator and key case manager Paul Kruse, and elder at West-Plex Community Church was involved in "Home Repair" for many years.   Now he focuses on "Homeless Repair". His wife Lana said she prayed for him to get off roofs and now he's in the trenches getting 30-40 phone calls per day from people needing assistance.  In a little more than 5 years the Lord has blessed this ministry with funds to service about 2000 people and get more than half of them to self-sufficiency.  The needs are great due to the down economy and job loss.  You can help FSBH continue the ministry to the homeless in many ways:  Prayer, hot meal preparation, food, toiletries, gas cards, phone cards, hotel credits, used or new bicycles, used cars, and of course monetary gifts.  All donations to FSBH are tax deductible as the ministry has been classified as a 501(c)3 public charity.  FSBH summarizes what it tries to do to show the love of God to the poor by these three ideas of instruction:
•    RENEW:   Renew their minds to be Christ-like (Romans 12:2 To renew their thinking and trust in Jesus alone so they may progress successfully toward self-sufficiency)
•    RESTORE:   Restore their souls through salvation which puts them right with their creator God. (Psalm 23)
•    REBUILD:   Rebuild their lives now that they have the power God gives us all when we turn to Him in obedience and faith.
(Matthew 4:4 Man does not live by bread alone but lives by every word from God)
  If you would like more information please visit www.firststepbackhome.net or contact Paul Kruse at 636-466-1365.