Comments on: Our Goal? Reconnecting Relationships http://freelettershome.com Reconnecting Relationships Wed, 05 Jun 2013 18:12:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Mary Rosier http://freelettershome.com/#comment-43 Mary Rosier Sat, 18 May 2013 19:40:44 +0000 http://freelettershome.com/?page_id=2#comment-43 My daughter and I just got back home from our first “Free Letters Home” set up, and it was truly an interesting experience. We attended the Dothan, AL “Homeless Stand Down/Connect” sponsored by the Love In Action Ministries/Harbor Church. We met many people that worked to put this event together, and we met many of the homeless people that attended. Our “Free Letters Home” table was new to this community but everyone thought it was unique and it serves a need. Since many people did not have “addresses to mail cards” with them, we gave several people their choice of a card and a stamp to take with them. Everyone seemed grateful and asked when we would be back again. We plan to visit this same location the last Friday of every month, possibly more often. We may set up at other locations also depending on the needs of the people.

I want to thank Sheila Stidham of Port Charlotte, FL for the lovely box of cards and envelopes she mailed to me. It was a complete surprise but VERY much appreciated! God Bless you, Sheila.

Mary Rosier
Daleville, AL

]]> By: Sheila Stidham http://freelettershome.com/#comment-41 Sheila Stidham Thu, 16 May 2013 15:27:40 +0000 http://freelettershome.com/?page_id=2#comment-41 Dear Mary:

Will get out the cards ASAP. God bless you on your endeavor and hopefully, everything will work out for you. With God at the helm, it can’t fail.

]]> By: Free Letters Home http://freelettershome.com/#comment-39 Free Letters Home Sat, 11 May 2013 14:20:41 +0000 http://freelettershome.com/?page_id=2#comment-39 Thank you for thinking about and suggesting how we can use our outreach in helping more people to keep in contact with their families. Yes, we have been a service provider at Snohomish County Project Homeless Connect at the high school for the past two years. We first heard about the event from reading a flyer under an overpass. We have also been service providers at other Homeless Connects including Tacoma, Skagit, Oregon, Minnesota, and Colorado. Thank you also for your encouragement and sharing with your daughter and your church.

Free Letters Home

]]> By: BronwenO http://freelettershome.com/#comment-38 BronwenO Sat, 11 May 2013 04:33:48 +0000 http://freelettershome.com/?page_id=2#comment-38 Are you guys involved with Project Homeless Connect at Cascade High School? This year will be June 27th and what you do fits in so perfectly with all of the help and resources and services that are offered there for upwards of 1,100 or more homeless and at-risk people and families.
Thank you for the Great idea and I too read about this in Guideposts. I was happy to see the Mill Creek, WA location in there and turns out we live right down Beverly Lane from you! I read the article to my daughter and will share it with our group at Faith Lutheran Church on Cady Rd as well. Thank you!

Bronwen & Kiara

]]> By: Free Letters Home http://freelettershome.com/#comment-34 Free Letters Home Thu, 02 May 2013 16:40:51 +0000 http://freelettershome.com/?page_id=2#comment-34 Wow! Thank you for your considerations in wanting to share your materials and your time in wanting to help this outreach. Our outreach uses any type of correspondence materials such as pens, note cards, envelopes, stickers, postcards, blank cards, special occasion cards, paper tablets, and lined school paper. So, if you want to collect materials from other teachers and students, that would also be great. ~ Free Letters Home

]]> By: Mary Rosier http://freelettershome.com/#comment-33 Mary Rosier Thu, 02 May 2013 16:11:12 +0000 http://freelettershome.com/?page_id=2#comment-33 We are starting a Free Letters Home in Dothan, AL. If anyone offers to donate cards toward our start up, please give them our address:

Mary Rosier
114 Comanche Street
Daleville, AL 36322

Phone: 334-598-1553

We have made contact with Love in Action Ministries and hopefully they will allow us to set up at their location in Dothan.

]]> By: Free Letters Home http://freelettershome.com/#comment-31 Free Letters Home Thu, 02 May 2013 15:25:27 +0000 http://freelettershome.com/?page_id=2#comment-31 We would be delighted to receive the cards, and without a doubt we need them, this is most likely our one and only chance to launch this nation wide outreach. We wish to assist many of the small outreaches that have contacted us. We have a few years of experience to aid them in a good start. If you email us we can continue this conversation “FreeLettersHome@hotmail.com” Please Please share yours cards with us. We have never had to buy cards before, but will consider paying your postage, if you use “If it fits it ships ~ U.S. postage boxes. Thanks for you consideration. Free Letters Home

]]> By: Sheila Stidham http://freelettershome.com/#comment-30 Sheila Stidham Thu, 02 May 2013 14:45:50 +0000 http://freelettershome.com/?page_id=2#comment-30 I help run the gift shop at our church in Punta Gorda, FL and our parishoners donate all their unwanted cards. Every once in a while we have to purge the cards that haven’t sold. I have a bag full of note cards & envelopes and would be more than happy to send them to you. If you can’t use them, maybe someone else might like them. E-mail me and let me know. Keep up the good work. All monies collected by our gift shop goes to our Outreach Programs in the area.

]]> By: Delre' http://freelettershome.com/#comment-28 Delre' Wed, 01 May 2013 21:17:30 +0000 http://freelettershome.com/?page_id=2#comment-28 What an awesome concept. Please email information about organizing and running a project such as this.

]]> By: Free Letters Home http://freelettershome.com/#comment-24 Free Letters Home Tue, 30 Apr 2013 13:18:02 +0000 http://freelettershome.com/?page_id=2#comment-24 We did not write the Guidepost entry. Our mother in-law wrote the Guidepost. Please consider reading the website for our infomation. This would be a valuable opportunity for them. If they had to leave their phones in the car for 1/2 the time they could start to get the feel of what lack of having resorces would be like while trying to put things back together. We will help get your family going with this outreach reguardless of your length of commitment. Greg

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