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Freehold Clergy Association

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Help House a Homeless Man in Monmouth County This Winter

A $5 donation pays for a night of food and shelter through the Freehold Clergy Association Emergency Housing and Advocacy Program, now in its ninth year.

The holiday season should be the happiest time of the year. For Monmouth County’s homeless population, however, the winter months often prove the most treacherous. The Freehold Clergy Association Emergency Housing and Advocacy Program is a refuge for many who have fallen on hard times, providing shelter and a hot meal to homeless men in Monmouth County from Dec. 1 through March 31. “Last year provided 1,100 bed nights—someone in a bed for the night. We had between 35 to 40 individuals last year. Some stayed for the whole program,” said Stan Rosenthal, who helps run the program along with Joan Mandel and George Lowe. Homeless men who take part in the program arrive at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Freehold for an evening intake process. …

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First Church of Christ Scientist, Hope Lutheran Church, Jerseyville United Methodist Church (in Howell Patch), and 5 more ›

Jeanine

7:36 am on Thursday, November 29, 2012

this is the best program i have read about so far for the homeless. posted the link about this to my facebook hoe it helps   more ›

Friday, January 20, 2012

Point of Grace: Housing Program Gives Hope to Homeless

The Freehold Clergy Association's Emergency Housing Program provides food and shelter to homeless men during the coldest months of the year.

Brian K. has 10 days sober. The 39-year-old carpenter knows the chaos inside an Atlantic City homeless shelter. He knows the isolation of living in a tent in the woods on the Howell-Lakewood border. He knows that he can’t get much sleep in the Lakewood tent city, where some 70 chickens hop from branch to branch to roost on the trees and set one another squawking in the middle of the night. And he knows that the support the Freehold Clergy Association’s winter Emergency Housing Program provides is an opportunity to take his sobriety one day at a time, one night at a time, and move forward. “It’s been a couple years since I actually felt human,” Brian K. said. “I actually sleep at night now. I’m so grateful. This is definitely a place you …

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First Church of Christ Scientist, Hope Lutheran Church, Jerseyville United Methodist Church (in Howell Patch), and 4 more ›

Susanne Winning

2:43 pm on Saturday, January 21, 2012

Nancy, Have you called any of these places and asked about housing for homeless women? They may have some useful connections. Easter Seals New Jersey 417 Burns Avenue Fort Monmouth, NJ 07703 (732) 542-8264 Interfaith Neighbors, Inc. 1208 Main Street Asbury Park, NJ 07712 (732) 775-0525 Woman's Center of Monmouth County One Bethany Road Building 3/Suite 42 Hazlet, NJ 07730 (732) 264-4111 Saint …   more ›

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