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PHOTOS BY JOE EARLE
Volunteers Hart Cobb, left, of Dunwoody United Methodist Church,
and Bruce Richards of Temple Sinai, unload beds to be used by
homeless families housed by Family Promise of North Fulton/DeKalb.
Local congregations provide
housing for homeless families
BI JOE EARLE
joeearle@reporternewspapers.net
Penina Richards brought flowers. It
just happened to be Mother’s Day, and
she thought a few vases filled with lit
tle roses, colored pink or peach or red,
would brighten these
makeshift bedrooms
and make them feel a
bit more welcoming.
“These women
coming in are moth
ers,” she said. “I’m
delighted to be here
for them on Mother’s Day.”
Richards and her daughter, 17-year-
old Marley, planned to stay the night
along with the four other families that
were scheduled to arrive that after
noon. As they awaited their guests, the
Richards — Penina, her husband, Bruce,
and Marley — spent the warm Sun
day afternoon turn
ing a group of reli
gious classrooms at
Temple Sinai in San
dy Springs into bed
rooms.
For the next week,
four of those bed
rooms would provide
temporary homes for
four homeless fam
ilies. “This room is
their room for the
week,” Penina said as
she moved in boxes
holding one family’s
belongings.
The Richards had volunteered to
help set up the rooms and meet the
families as members of Family Prom
ise of North Fulton/DeKalb, a new
program organized by a dozen church
es and synagogues spread across San
dy Springs, Dunwoody, Buckhead, Ro
swell and Alpharetta.
Through the Family Promise pro
gram, member congregations provide
places where up to four homeless fam
ilies can live for a week. The host con
gregation supplies
volunteers who sleep
over, provide meals
and otherwise sup
port the families dur
ing that week. The
families move from
facility to facility,
spending one week at one congrega
tion, then moving on to another.
“The tenets of our faith tell us to
care for those who are marginalized in
society,” said Rabbi Bradley Levenberg
of Temple Sinai, who chairs the local
Family Promise board. “This is a great
opportunity for us to live our faith.”
The original Fam
ily Promise program
started about 25
years ago in New Jer
sey, Levenberg said.
The interfaith orga
nization now claims
about 181 affiliat
ed networks in 41
states, with 150,000
volunteers working
in more than 5,000
congregations, ac
cording to the Fam
ily Promise website.
Networks have
been established in communities large
and small. About a dozen now oper
ate in Georgia, said Bill Hardison, ex
ecutive director of Family Promise of
North Fulton/DeKalb.
A representative of the nation
al group came to the north metro area
about 18 months ago, Levenberg said,
and started meeting with representa-
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“Why do this? There’s a
need for it. There are
families out there.”
- BILL HARDISON
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, FAMILY
PROMISE
