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August 2022:

We had a workday at our Shinnah Community this month and cut down trees and created another tent site and a storage area. We also replaced rotten pallets and a ripped tent. We now have 22 sites. And 20 residents.

This month we were able to help get birth certificates for 3 individuals... One from Mississippi, Georgia and one from Germany... resident’s father was in the Army.

We were also able to assist one individual get his Georgia driver’s license and 3 to get their GA Identification.

Thank you, Bonnie Garret for supplying all the material to create the beautiful cards for all those we serve… what a blessing that was and also thank you for the delicious lunch you provided. You made a difference.

Big Praise one of our residents moved from Shinnah into housing.

Thank you to all those who responded to our call for towels for our residents at Camp Shinnah. You made a difference.

September 2022:

• As of August 27th, we currently have 20 residents at Shinnah, and capacity for 2 more.

• This month, two residents received their license and one received their ID. These documents are an important way we help the residents be able to get jobs.

• Two new residents received their food stamp cards. Food stamps are required by the camp rules to ensure residents have food until they are stable.

• Two residents were assessed by the Community Service Board (CSB). This is a requirement of camp residents. The CSB provides counseling and addiction services, and helps with job placement and housing.

• Another resident got a job and one moved away from the camp and into housing.

• We also served approximately 36 individuals each week of this this month who live in the woods but not at Shinnah.

• The Daily Bread Ministry is in need of blankets as it is getting colder. Blankets do not have to be new, just clean. As always your donations are greatly appreciated and go directly toward helping people in our community.

October 2022

• A big Shout out to all that worked so hard on Sunday, September 11, God’s Work, Our Hands... that was such fun and your help was so appreciated.

• As of today, we have 20 residents at Shinnah and deliver to 40 individuals who live in other camps. We also delivered 84 bags of food to people who live in housing but have no transportation.

  This month we were able to help two people move from the camp into housing in Douglasville. We provided bus tickets for three individuals. Of these, two were reunited with family in California, and after transferring his parole from Douglasville to Virginia, one was reunited with his Mom, wife and child. His mom was so thrilled when I asked her if Pete could come home, she said oh yes, we have not seen him in 4-1/2 years.

• We do not tolerate drugs and or alcohol at the camp. I drug test and use breathalyzer as needed. I evicted two for being drunk on property and one was evicted for having beer in his tent. One individual I am giving a second chance...Everyone deserves a second chance...all can make a change.

• Helped two to get their Social Security Cards, one a birth certificate, and one his Georgia Identification card.

• We received a 7000 pound shipment from the Atlanta, Community Food Bank. Thank you so much Don Larsen, Sam and Susan Duke, Butch Myers, Jamal Anderson, and Mike Anderson for helping to stock our shelves.

• Please remember we need your plastic grocery bags for packing lunches.

Leila

November 2022

We now have 22 sites. And 16 residents at Shinnah. This month, one of our residents moved from Shinnah into housing and one was reunited with family in Florida.

Eight of our residents currently have jobs and three receive disability checks. Two have applied for disability… Others have appointments with Community Service board for assistance in seeking employment and/or needed therapy.

We were blessed to be able to donate $750.00 to help install a shower and washer and dryer at Dry Bones Non-profit. Dry Bones restores donated cars and now their employees will be able to shower and wash and dry their clothes. They hire our men at Shinnah, and prayerfully all our residents will be able to also shower during the winter months.

We have been given a new area to relocate Shinnah… We are still waiting to hear if the county will provide water and a pull through. As of today, the projected time to begin clearing the land for the coroner’s office is February 2023. We need 55 pallets (red and blue ones). Please let me know if you have a truck and are willing to pick them up at Good Samaritan. One of our first tasks at the new site, will be to clear an area to make an entrance and to clear a site to put our three bathrooms. Please let me know if you would like to help.

Thank you for your continued support and donations …. Our needs for the winter are blankets, Hot Hands and body Wipes.

Leila