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"Look to the Lord and his strength; seek his face always."
Psalm 105:4
March 2014
Patti Hall Johnson, a resident of Virginia for approximately 45 years, currently works for the corporate office of the New York Times in the World Trade Center. She has been in Information Technology for over 35 years. She started her career at the Virginian Pilot and Ledger Star in 1976. She volunteers at the Portsmouth Keim Center where she teaches parenting, nutrition, pre-natal and postnatal classes to single mothers. At the age of 16, Pattis life was interrupted with an unplanned pregnancy which caused her to leave high school and begin a new life as a mother. Through the struggles and grace of God she overcame the odds of raising her daughter with no support from the daughters father and minimal support from her parents. Her daughter went on to college and became a Nuclear Medicine Technologist and is currently a stayat-home mother raising her 3 children. She is a childrens church teacher, a volunteer at several schools, and very involved within her community. After having what Patti considered her first real job at the Virginian Pilot with health, life and dental insurance, she started donating money to the United Way selecting Other Homes for Single Mothers as its destination and usage.
Shining Light Homes, a 501(c)3 non-profit corporation, will provide supervised Christian transitional housing for single mothers and their children under age 4, for up to two years. The vision of Shining Light Homes is to help single mothers become self-sufficient, successful, productive citizens. In assisting them, their children, grandchildren and their communities will flourish exponentially. Our mission is to help these single mothers take care of themselves and their children, while they work at improving their financial situation through spiritual support, education, training, counseling, goal setting, and connections to local resources and assistance, thus moving them into their own home, with a job, child care and transportation. We are in the beginning stages of launching this ministry and are in great need of various forms of support. We need office space, equipment, supplies, fundraising and grant writing expertise and most importantly, financial support. This will allow us to purchase our first home. Our future vision for this ministry is to have homes in all fifty states; therefore, forming partnerships with various organizations that share or can benefit from our mission which is very important to us. Shining Light Homes is a much needed ministry in the Hampton Roads area and we are working very hard to ensure that this ministry is successful. Therefore, your prayers and any other forms of support are greatly appreciated.
March 2014
Our Mission
to help single mothers take care of themselves and their children, while they work at improving their financial situation through spiritual support, education, training, counseling, goal setting, and connections to local resources and assistance, thus moving them into their own home, with a job, child care and transportation
Pray
Pray for each mother, child, volunteer, counselor, partner, sponsor and donor that God sends to this ministry. Pray that everything we say and do will be a shining light that leads others to Christ.
Our Vision
to help single mothers become self-sufficient, successful, productive citizens
Participate
Help us transform lives by providing education, counseling, goal setting, spiritual support and connections to local resources and assist single mothers with important decisions for their future and the future of their babies.
Our Goal
to have homes in all fifty states; therefore, forming partnerships with various organizations that share or can benefit from our mission
Provide
Your financial support will help us provide housing, education and daily necessities for mothers as they learn to become self-sufficient. ***
March 2014
Michelle Settles
who gave birth to her beautiful baby girl on February 28th
Shining Light Homes Ministries is partnering with Vision Church & Living Waters Ministries to provide Food & Clothing to the community Join us March 22nd at the Clarence Cuffee Community Center 2019 Windy Road in Chesapeake, VA 11AM-1:00PM
***Volunteers and non-perishable food items are greatly appreciated***
WWW.SHININGLIGHTHOMES.ORG
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Christmas Party
shininglighthomes.org
For more information, call or email us: (757) 572-2111
info@shininglighthomes.net
We would like to thank all of you who have already donated resources. Because of your generosity, we have been able to be a blessing to several new mothers!