Jeremiah 29 Hope

Statement of Purpose

Jeremiah 29 Hope is a Limited Liability Corporation that is seeking tax-exempt status as a 501-3c Corp for the benefit of low and middle-income households.  

The sole purpose is to empower families to provide stable lives for themselves and their children.

  We fulfill this purpose by:   

  1. Education-Provide knowledge through classes to develop for themselves and their children:      

  Emotional and Physical Security. 

  Housing Security. 

 Food Security.

 Good Physical Hygiene 

Spiritual formation and well being-Sense of hope for the future. 

 Individual counseling to get needed services to maintain and stabilize their home life.*  

2.      Program partners with parents to:                                                                                               

 Provide summer programs for children to maintain academic skills .

Establish networks to provide healthy life experiences for parents and children.

Establish networks for development of life skills and to explore their gifts and strengths for employment opportunities for the parents.

Establish groups for spiritual encouragement and community support.

*Service Fundamentals

1. Never do for a person what they have capacity to do for themselves. We will encourage, provide information, coach, and partner to empower them to work through their situations to stabilize their own life.  

  a.Example-Thrift Store vs. Clothes free  

   b.Example-Thrift Christmas toy store vs. free gifts

2. In extreme situations (and as finances allow), there can be financial help dispensed. It will be limited with the expectation that there be an effort to make changes in a person’s life to eliminate the crisis reoccurring.

3. Strive to empower a person through employment, working with them to build employable skills and support them to establish good work record to build their career.

4. Seek to subdue self- interests to the meet the needs of those being served.

5. Seek to understand the person(s) and listen to what is being said, especially to what is not being said (unspoken feelings). This may be an essential clue to effective service

6. Above all, do no harm to the extent that is humanly possible.

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