Family Promise Whitfield Aims to End Homelessness

Whitfield County agency and religious leaders gathered to discuss their roles in ending homelessness in the county.
The Family Promise group aims at pooling church resources to provide shelter for homeless families.
Each church donates its unused classroom or sanctuary space for housing week to week.
Family Promise co-president John Peabody says the excitement to provide services outside the traditional soup kitchen shelter setup is contagious.
Peabody says, "They love the idea that there are folks in the community that need help and it's kind of a problem that's too big to do by yourself, but if you do it with other folks and everybody take a small piece of the puzzle it becomes doable."
The organization has 8 of the 13 churches needed for the program.
That way, each church is used only four times a year as a shelter.