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Jerusalem House
Seeks Space for
Homeless PWAs
Atlanta-The board of directors of
Jerusalem House, a residence to be designed
specifically for people with AIDS (PWAs),
is searching for donated space to house 20 to
30 PWAs.
Evelyn G. Ullman, president of the board
of Jerusalem House, said the facility will
provided AIDS patients with meals and
medical services, compassion and
companionship.
"More than 100 people with AIDS are
walking the streets of Atlanta with no bed to
call their own and no roof over their heads.
They have been rejected by friends and
family, their financial resources are
exhausted, and they find themselves ill and
homeless. There is no room for them in
existing facilities," said Ullman.
"We hope to have a facility and be
renovating it by February," she said.
United Way of Metropolitan Atlanta, are
of 19 agencies and organizations sponsoring
the project, gave the group a $5,000 grant,
and a recent fundraiser in Stone Mountain
brought in more than $7,000, according to
Ullman.
The Red Cross will train volunteers for
Jerusalem House, the Visiting Nurses
Association plans to donate medical
services, and Project Open Hand/Atlanta
will provide meals for the residents.
Jersusalem House is actively seeking
volunteer and financial support. Interestd
persons may contact the Jerusalem House
at 634-3336 or write Jerusalem House,
Inc., 1790 LaVista Road, Atlanta, GA
30329. Contributions are tax-deductible.
Rev. Hose Eulogized By MCC
Two hundred and forty persons attended
a memoral service Dec. 11 to pay tribute to
the late Rev. John ("Papa John") Hose,
minister emeritus of Atlanta's First
Metropolitan Community Church (MCC),
who died of cancer on Nov. 25 at age 74.
Rev. Hose was a prominent figure in the
national MCC ministry for nearly two
decades.
Rev. Troy Perry,
founder and head of
the national MCC,
headquartered in Los
Angeles, officiated at
the service held at
First Atlanta MCC on
N. Highland Avenue.
"Papa John was a
'papa' to all of us,"
Perry said in his
eulogy. "And John
was truly a papa to
me," Perry added. He
recounted how he and
Hose became Mends
and co-workers
beginning in 1969
when he appointed
Hose as assistant
pastor at the original
MCC church,
founded the year
before, in Los
Angeles. "He did any
kind of menial work
in the church that
needed to be done,"
Rev. Troy Perry, founder and
head of the national MCC,
officiated at the memorial
service for Rev. John Hose.
Perry said. Hose had a Friends and co-workers since
particular interest in 1969, Perry appointed Hose
providing housing in assistant pastor of the original
parsonage for MCC church.
homeless persons, Perry recalled. "He dealt
with the homeless long before this became
an issue anywhere else,” Perry said.
MCC clergy from more than a dozen
congregations across the country - including
representatives from San Diego and Tampa,
where Hose served before coming to Atlanta
in 1979 - praised him for his sense of humor
and great wisdom.
Hose was
instrumental in the
founding of First
Atlanta MCC in 1972,
the second oldest
MCC congregation in
the southeast.
The service, which
First Atlanta MCC
interim pastor Reid
Christensen called a
"service of
celebration," was
originally planned
more than a month ago
by Hose. "His
physician advised him
at that time that the
chemotherapy for his
cancer was not
working," Rev.
Christensen said.
"John figured he
would make it until
Dec. 11," Christensen
said.
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