Dear Ones -
Thank you, thank you, thank you! We have successfully completed our mission to provide a warm safe place to sleep in Bloomington, Indiana from November 1, 2009 to March 31, 2010! Congratulations on a job well done (but not finished). As many of you have expressed, our work is not complete because tonight there will be 30+ people looking for another place to sleep. So, the IWSI Task Force has extended my contract to organize a Homelessness Summit to bring together all interested parties in the next few months to work toward a innovative and integrated solution to our community situation.
Please contact me if you would like to help with the planning.
A more urgent matter is we have planned a Gratitude Celebration for the IWSI, in particular, for all the volunteers who made the program a success. It will be from 5-7 pm on Sunday, April 11, 2010, at First United Church, 2420 E. Third Steet, Bloomington. We have planned an IU Jazz Ensemble to play, along with refreshments, including finger foods. It will be a
wonderful way to celebrate the IWSI community we have built. We need a fairly accurate count of how many people to prepare food for, so please RSVP to me by 5:00 pm Tuesday April 6 if you are planning on attending. You can RSVP directly to me at tom@innerspark.org.
With deep gratitude,
Tom
Rev. Dr. Thomas F. Capshew, Interfaith Minister
Interfaith Winter Shelter Administrator
Cell Phone (812) 219-6734
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Thank you to everyone at St. Thomas who supported this local ministry through prayers, donations and/or volunteering. Thank you to Darrell B. and Pastor Lyle for their leadership and coordination efforts representing St. Thomas!
ReplyDeleteI saw in the HT that Shalom will need to find a new home beginning in June! Sheltering in Bloomington has become even more important.
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