Family Promise of Southeast Volusia is an interdenominational group which will provide temporary housing and aid for homeless families.
Family Promise of Southeast Volusia is an interdenominational group which is working toward providing temporary housing and aid for the growing number of homeless families in our area. When fully functional, Family Promise, through its Interfaith Hospitality Network, will provide housing for for homeless families a week at a time within churches. Host churches will provide a place for the families to stay during the evenings; during the day, the children will attend their own schools or a local day care while the parents go to work or look for work. Management of the program will be done by a professional social worker at a central day center where the families will have shower and laundry facilities, access to mail, and receive counseling.
Family Promise of Southeast Volusia is an affiliate of the national not-for-profit organization, Family Promise.
Family Promise is now a tax exempt 501(c)(3) corporation and has its own mailing address:
Family Promise of Southeast Volusia
PO Box 671
Edgewater, FL 32132-9998
Family Promise also has its own bank account and tax deductible contributions can be made directly to the organization (FPSEV) at the above address.
Fundraising continues as Family Promise raises the funds needed to become a resource for homeless families.
Rev. Marilyn Beecher, Church and Community Worker, East Central District, Florida Conference
The Rev. Marilyn Beecher, a United Methodist missionary serving as a Church and Community Worker, will be the guest preacher on Sunday, August 22.She will preachat both the 9:30 and 11 a.m. services. Her sermon topic is Words and Deeds, based on Matthew 21:28-32.
Ms. Beecher’s responsibilities as a Church and Community Worker involve helping congregations inEast Central Florida develop new outreach ministries, with special emphasis on work with children and youth, disaster response, immigrants, and hunger programs.
She says about her work: “If churches are to live up to the call of the Gospel, then they cannot just care for their own members, but they must be engaged with the people around them and be beacons of hope for the community.”
Prior to her current assignment, Ms. Beecher was a Church and Community Worker in Miami, working with three Haitian congregations to develop new outreach and evangelism ministries. She also served as a United Methodist missionary in Bulgaria from 1993 to 1997.
WEEKLY WORSHIP SERVICES
SUNDAY @ 9:30 AM Traditional Blended Style of Worship
SUNDAY @ 11 AM A More Informal and Flexible Style of Worship Children who attend this service are invited to leave at the Offering to attend Children's Church
SUNDAY @ 5:00 PM Special Worship for Special People
for the Mentally Challenged, their families, and friends
followed by a light supper and time of fellowship
