Moonlight Gala and Silent Auction

featuring the fabulous

Waterman’s Band

on Friday, June 14 from 7 pm to mid-night

at the beautiful Grandview Ballroom at The Oaks

100 Hideaway Place, Somersworth, NH

Join us with your friends for an enchanted evening of ”Rockin’ Rock n’ Roll” music, dancing, hors d’oeuvres and silent auction full of treasures! Proceeds will benefit the New Beginnings Transitional Housing Training Program for the homeless.

Tickets are $25 per person and can be purchased online below or at New Beginnings Thrift Boutique, 82 High Street, Somersworth, NH.

Space is limited so buy your tickets in advance to reserve your spot!

(paid tickets will be held at will-call, please bring your PayPal confirmation)

Buy Your tickets Here!

•  Jarred pasta sauce
• Toilet paper
• Mac and Cheese
• Tuna Fish

Out of this experience, we, as a group, have realized that individuals need more than just a one-time handout. In order to help individuals utilize the resources available to them to create a life of responsible sustainability, we strive to offer a hand-up, rather than a handout.

We have come to realize over our years of experience in assisting homeless families, that homelessness is now categorized in American society as a lifestyle. For over 12 years, our groups of volunteers have witnessed the truth behind the statistic that children do indeed make up about 40% of the homeless population. After seeing how this young generation is being affected by generational poverty, it has become apparent to our ministry that a large portion of poverty and homelessness is learned behavior, passed down through cycles of generational homelessness. Breaking the cycle of homelessness at this level, and putting children on the track to productive and contributing lives will reap compounding benefits, not only for them individually but will also simultaneously reduce the socioeconomic impact on the community.

To combat this cycle, we have designed a 365-day program that seeks to teach and develop life skills for these children and their families, called the New Beginnings Transitional Housing and Training Program. Our program is designed to end the cycle of chronic homelessness for families and single women. The program will be conducted in a highly supervised and structured residential setting, accommodating 25 children and adults,

where all aspects of the program are multi-purposed to provide classroom and practical training.  Our desire for individuals in our program is to break their dependency on the state and town social services by equipping them with the skills and tools necessary to live independent sustainable lives as contributing members of society; helping them in their journey toward becoming employed, educated, and healthy.

Integral to the Program is the development and operation of several “Cottage Industries.” These profit-generating businesses are specifically designed to provide income to help fund the Program, as well as to function as a training component of the Program itself for the adult Program participants.

Our Program has several facets that we believe enhance our success and sets us apart from other transitional housing programs. For example, Families In Transition, who will be opening a home for women in Strafford County, NH, do not assist families. Families constitute a key factor to our program, and families equate to men, women and children, so all are accepted at the Transitional House as part of our Family Building Program. Too long have families been separated as a result of homelessness and poverty. By bringing families back together, we seek to re-establish family bonds, positive self-esteem, accountability and common goals toward lifestyle changes. We will also be in a position to accommodate some individuals that otherwise might be turned away by other programs due to space restrictions.

We believe that individuals will be more accountable if they reside within the same environment where positive life changes are being taught and learned, instead of returning to a negative environment after attending a class. Residential living affords the opportunity of a listening ear from the professional staff members for the residents at all times. Therefore, community living will help divert negative choices and inspire positive ones. Development of social skills by facilitating interaction and communication with others will strengthen desire for sustainable self-supported independence as they grasp the importance of socialization.

Residential community living creates the necessity for the individual to learn and develop interpersonal skills, which in many cases have been under-developed, or never learned. Often people who have utilized the system for an extended period become programmed to just follow the directions of the process, but never take any action to change their lifestyle pattern. After all, the system was created to be a helping hand, not a lifestyle.  Therefore, we believe residential community living sets us apart from other transitional housing, because we are able to be a twenty-four hour home and training program where families and single women are provided all the necessary tools, one-on-one personal guidance, opportunity, and encouragement to succeed in life.

New Beginnings’ business model vigorously pursues several independent income streams concurrently so as not to be solely dependent upon any one source of income to fund on-going operations. To the greatest extent possible, New Beginnings strives to be self-funding and self-supporting. Funding from your trust will assist us in purchasing the property needed to implement this program.

Highlights we seek to provide with this program are:

•  To equip the program participants with the skill-sets and mind-set necessary for sustainable, self-   supporting, independent, productive and meaningful lives.
• To re-educate participants with the social and interpersonal skills needed for a mind-set free of homelessness.
• To help children build positive self-esteem, instill and encourage a complete lifestyle change toward productive, self-supportive adulthood.
• To achieve a 75% success rate of program participant employment after a 6 month transitional period.
• Increased wellness from chronic behavioral patterns and addiction stressors.
• To enable chronically homeless families and single women to reduce their dependence on government financial aid into sustainable self-sufficiency.
• To aid program participants to be a social asset to the community, both locally and regionally.
• To freely provide the New Beginnings business model to other groups interested in implementing this program in their communities.

This was an email that we recently received from a couple in need of help . It is just one of many needs that Seeds of Faith receives on a regular basis.
Sometimes it is a simple gas card, or diapers from our diaper fairy. Or maybe someone that is homeless and in need of shelter, food, clothes, etc.. Sometimes it’s just a helping hand getting through a fragmented system.
Whatever the needs are, Seeds of Faith does it’s best to help as many as we can.
The above family now enjoys their heat and hot water thanks to you and your generous donations given through Seeds of Faith!

~Charity sees the need, not the cause~

Hours of operation:

Every Monday from 10am to noon

Location:

1 Front St., #160, Rollinsford, NH

Please call Deborah @ 603-742-6041 for an appointment and any questions you many have! Thank you.

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The shelves where running low while the needs where running high! But with the help of from the Chaplain Daniel Whitaker and RP2 Petty Officer Michael Burke US Navy came to our rescue. With the donation of almost 200lbs of non perishable food from the campaign “Feds Feed Families” Food drive, the shelves at the Seeds of Faith Food Pantry are know full and ready to serve those in need, making a difference; one food box at a time!