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Anawim Christian Community is a community church made up of the homeless and the mentally ill. Our main goal is to provide for people's needs (including the need to be a disciple of Jesus) where they are at. We don't feel that a person needs to be something different before they get the help they need. Our center is in Gresham OR, which is where we lead and organize day shelters and a worship service. We also have a community house in N. Portland where housing is being provided for a few people and opportunities for community worship. We are connected to ministries in SE Portland and St. Johns, where we distribute food and clothing. And finally, through the internet, we educate people from almost every country in the world about homelessness, mental illness and the Christian response to each.

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Tuesday, October 25, 2011

What is a Day Shelter?

  A day shelter is a place for those in the community to go who have no place to go.  In our day shelters, we find the homeless, older high school kids, and retirees who don’t have a regular place to go. They come to our day shelters to hang out, to connect with others and to get some basic food and clothes.  
  A day shelter isn’t like a night shelter—it’s much more busy.  There are fewer requirements to begin a day shelter than an overnight
shelter:  All we have to do is open our doors and make sure we have trained people to deal with conflict or referrals.
   In East Multnomah county, a number of churches, including
Anawim, St. Henry’s Catholic Church, East Hill Four Square, and First Baptist Church have been working together to establish a
network of day shelters.  We typically get from 30 to 50 people a day, needing a safe place to be during the day.



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