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Filling The Gap FORM Returns To HOHC Roots
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By Ann Mead Ash
In 2016, House of His Creation (HOHC) became Family of Restoration Ministries (FORM). Shortly thereafter, the ministry moved from its location on Lititz Pike to 541 W. 28th Division Highway, Lititz. At the time, House of His Creation still existed as a maternity home on the new property, serving women age 18 and older. Loving and Caring Resources, which also came under the FORM umbrella, held on-site classes including The Parenting Journey and the Beautiful You events. In December 2019, the ministry decided to make another change. “We will be back to solely operating as HOHC,” read a letter from Matthew Neff, executive director. Loving and
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Caring Resources services will continue to be present and active at the site. Callie Neff, housing support specialist with HOHC, explained the transition. “We had become more of a teaching, training, and equipping kind of ministry (as FORM),” she noted. “We wanted to focus back on our primary mission, which is housing.” Over the nearly 50 years since HOHC was founded, the ministry mainly offered maternity housing with a mother and child component. The Neffs served at the house on Lititz Pike in that capacity. “ We were living with young teen moms,” recalled Callie, “(but) who was calling (for help) changed.” Women who are in need of help now are usually between the ages of 18 to 24 and come from a variety of See Filling The Gap pg 5
Matthew Neff (left), executive director of House of His Creation (HOHC), and Callie Neff, housing support specialist, stand beside the sign at the ministry’s location in northern Lititz. After using the name Family of Restoration Ministries for several years, HOHC is returning to its roots by providing housing for women in certain circumstances.
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the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (PSPCA) Lancaster Center a $2,000 grant to assist pet owners in need throughout the region. The funds have been put into action to provide pet food as families face the health and economic impacts of the coronavirus. The PSPCA Lancaster Center, 848 S. Prince St., Lancaster, is working to assist pet families in need and has provided hundreds of pounds of dry food and countless pounds of wet food to its clients. With other area resources shuttered, the PSPCA has worked to ensure that anyone who needs assistance feeding their dogs or cats during this time receives it. See PSPCA pg 4
The Pennsylvania SPCA Lancaster Center received a grant to help families in need feed their pets. Donations and applications for assistance are welcome.
By Ann Mead Ash
Located throughout Lancaster County are seven centers that exist to give adults and children with special needs from the Plain community a chance to learn, socialize, and take part in productive work. The workshops also offer the families of these individuals respite. The centers are Sunny Sunbeam, Caring Hearts, Penn Johns Sunbeam, Special Hearts Circle, New Horizons, Valley Workshop, and Shady Hollow. The more than 80 students who attend the centers range in age from 14 to 76. A staff of 35 See Special Needs Auction pg 4
Students at the Sunny Sunbeam center in Georgetown, a workshop that serves the needs of individuals with special needs in the Plain community, make candy keychains (top photo) and are reminded of where all good things originate. Sunny Sunbeam is one of seven centers that will benefit from an auction on July 6.
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