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HISTORY |
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Hebron House of Hospitality, Inc. incorporated in July
1982, and opened the doors of the Hebron House shelter on August 1, 1983.
All of the
programs and services Hebron House of Hospitality, Inc. develops and
provides have evolved through improvements made based on client input and
needs.
In February 1986, we started a no-interest loan program and a
housing education program.
In 1991, in collaboration with the Community Housing
Initiative (CHI), started a Case Management program. In 1992, we provided case management for twenty-five
families.
In 1993, we started providing Case
Management services to Cornerstone Apartments. Cornerstone Apartments is
a housing development with forty-one units of affordable housing for
homeless single adults with special needs.
In 1997, we opened the Jeremy House Safe Haven.
In April 2000, we opened a second emergency shelter the Siena
House Shelter.
In 2002, we purchased two-four unit apartment
buildings for permanent housing for persons with co-occurring special
needs.
In 2008, we assumed the leadership for Washington County's programs. |
Helping
families in our community since 1982
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Washington County's Housing Hotline had 882 calls in 2009.
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Why the "Hebron House of Hospitality"?
Three Visitors Arrive
Three months after this, as Abraham sat in his tent door, he saw three men approaching. They accepted his hospitality. Seated under an oak-tree, they shared food that Abraham and Sarah provided. One of the three visitors was none other than the Lord, and the other two were angels disguised as men. The Lord renewed on this occasion his promise of a son by Sarah and rebuked her unbelief.
Abraham accompanied the three as they proceeded on their journey. The two angels went on toward Sodom; while the Lord tarried behind and talked with Abraham, revealing to him the destruction that was about to fall on that guilty city. The patriarch interceded earnestly on behalf of the doomed city. But as not even ten righteous persons were found in it, for whose sake the city would have been spared, the Lord acted. The city was destroyed. Early next morning Abraham saw the smoke of the fire that consumed it as the “smoke of a furnace” (Gen. 19:1-28).
Reference: http://www.christiananswers.net/dictionary/abraham.html
Mission Statement:
The mission of Hebron House of Hospitality, Inc. is to provide
emergency housing and related services to people in transition with the
basic needs of shelter, food and personal support.
Philosophy:
Hebron House of Hospitality, Inc. philosophy is that all families and individuals should have housing adequate to their needs. Hebron House of Hospitality, Inc. acts as a resource agency to intervene in the cycle of homelessness from shelter to housing assistance programs aimed at prevention.
Hebron House of Hospitality, Inc. is operated always with the purpose to provide
housing and food to any person of any faith, nationality, sex, age or
disability. We strive to provide this service in a non-judgmental
atmosphere.
Hebron
House of Hospitality works constantly to raise awareness to the homeless
population’s needs and this community’s responsibility to
support efforts for those needs.
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