Wingard Home Inc.
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December 11, 2011
My family and I went to the Wingard home after we had no place else to go. We were grateful that we had a place to go,but after seeing the way things were run and the attitudes that we were presented with, I was very happy to leave. Mr. Roy has a very bad and judgmental attitude and Mrs. Charlotte is no better. We were told to leave on a rainy night,when my father defended us (my brother and I ) to Mr. Roy because he was accusing us of making a mess, that his own children made. The mess was made in the "common room", where my brother and I had not even been except earlier that day. So, we were told to get our stuff and get out, that was a horrible thing for them to do,but I was happy. Also, years later Mr. Roy came into a place my mother was working and as he walked out the door he called a "heathen". That was not very Christian like. The bible says: “Judge not, and you will not be judged; condemn not, and you will not be condemned; forgive, and you will be forgiven; Luke 6:37 So, I have since forgiven you, Mr. Roy, for casting such judgement on her for no reason. I hope and pray for your family and ministry.
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How would you describe the help you got from this organization?
A little
How likely are you to recommend this organization to a friend?
Unsure
How do you feel you were treated by this organization?
Somewhat badly
When was your last experience with this nonprofit?
1999
August 18, 2011
HELLO EVERYONE MY NAME IS AMY I AM 28 YEARS OLD AND HAVE 3 LITTLE BOYS. ON MAY 4, 2008 I ENDED UP AT UMC IN JACKSON I HAD TRIED TO END MY LIFE. I WAS DEPRESSED AND I FELT I HAD NO OTHER CHOICE MY LIFE WAS A WRECK, MY MARRIAGE WAS A MESS, AND I THOUGHT I WAS RUINING MY BOYS LIVES...THE HOSPITAL DISCHARGED ME THE NEXT DAY BUT BECAUSE I WAS NOT FROM JACKSON AND I HAD NO WHERE TO GO AND NO ONE I COULD DEPEND ON THE HOSPITAL CONTACTED MRS. CHAROLOTTE AT THE WINGARD HOME AND THE HOSPITAL PAID FOR ME A CAB RIDE THERE... I DID NOT KNOW WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN I GOT THERE I WAS SCARED. UPON MY ARRIVAL WE SAT AND TALKED AND MRS. CHAROLOTTE ASKED ME ABOUT MY BOYS I TOLD HER I HAD LEFT THEM WITH MY MOM IN LOUISIANA AND THAT I DIDN'T WANT THEM BECAUSE I WAS A FAILURE...WELL IT TOOK ME ABOUT 5 HOURS TO REALIZE I COULD NOT GO ON WITHOUT MY BOYS WITH ME AND I WENT AND TOLD MRS. CHAROLOTTE I WANTED THEM WITH ME AND WITHOUT HESITATION SHE SAID LETS GO AND WE LEFT AND DROVE THE 2 HOURS TO LOUISIANA IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT...I HAD NO MONEY, NO CAR, NO JOB, I HAD NOTHING BUT SHE DIDN'T CARE SHE TOOK ME ANYWAYS...WHILE I WAS THERE I LEARNED TO TRUST IN GOD AND THINGS FINALLY STARTED GETTING BETTER FOR ME I GOT A JOB WITH THE STATE...AND THE MINISTRY HELPED ME GET A CAR I WAS BACK ENJOYING LIFE PRODUCTIVELY BUT SOMETIMES WHEN WE THINK WE ARE READY ITS NOT OUR TIME I ENDED UP MOVING OUT AND IT TOOK ABOUT 3 MONTHS BEFORE I FELL BACK INTO A DEEP DEPRESSION AND I TRIED TO END MY LIFE AGAIN.. IT WAS NOT PRETTY BUT IT WAS MRS. CHAROLOTTE THAT CAME AND GOT ME AND TOOK ME AND MY BOYS BACK IN TO THEIR MINISTRY AND HELPED ME WITHOUT ANY JUDGEMENT...I AM SITTING HERE ALMOST 3 YEARS LATER IN MY OWN HOME LIVING AND ENJOYING LIFE WITH MY BOYS I KNOW NOW THAT NO MATTER WHAT I AM NOT ALONE AND GOD TOLD ME THROUGH HIM ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE AND HE TOLD ME TO ASK AND I SHALL RECIEVE...I MAY NOT HAVE EVERYTHING I WANT BUT HE SURE PROVIDES EVERYTHING WE NEED...SO IF ANYONE READING THIS HAS ANY DOUBTS ABOUT THIS MINISTRY AND THE EFFECTS IT HAS ON SOMEONES LIFE IT HELPED ME GET MY LIFE BACK AND I WOULD BE SAD TO KNOW THAT ANOTHER SINGLE MOM DIDN'T HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY I HAD IF SHE NEEDED IT. SO MRS. CHAROLOTTE AND EVERYONE ELSE AT THE MINISTRY THANK YOU FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART!!!!!!!!!!
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A LIFE ALTERING WAY
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If I had to make changes to this organization, I would...
NOT CHANGE A THING
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January 9, 2011
1 person found this review helpful
The Wingard Home is a great place to live. I was brought to this place on May 31,2010. My house was burned down and this wonderful place that god had sent me to was my only option me and my mom and brother had. My mom didnt even know where we were going. The Wingard Home is the best place ever. Its a place were u can be loved. Its a place were u can learn different things not only different things but learn about god.Mrs. Charlotte is the most wonderful woman i ever meet in my entire life. Mr. Roy is the best man i have ever meet; he might put the fear of god in your but it is worth every thing. Mr. Roy and Mrs. Charlotte are the best and so is the Wingard Home.
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helping every one with there on problems
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If I had to make changes to this organization, I would...
enforce the rules a little more
January 9, 2011
My name is Ronda and I have been living at the Wingard home for over a year now. I have been blessed in so many ways its amazing. This is an awesome place to help you get on your feet and also to develop my own personal relationship with God. We dont have to pay for utility bills, food,clothing ect. ect . The only thing we need to do is to try! Follow a few simple rules ( thats life ) and do a chore to help out. Not much to ask at all!!!!
I am also learning how to be a good mom. I have a 7 month old whom everyone loves and always helps me out with him and Charlotte and Roy always answer the many questions I have about the the baby. They are my family and I love this place!!!!My husband is a Turkish citizen who have never held his son and has never been to america, with the help of the ministry we are getting him over here to be with his son. If I was not here it would not be possible for him to get here.
You will succeed here if you are not lazy, want to do good.
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I have a great understanding for God and working on being a better person
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My Role: Client Served & I have live at Wingard Home for the past 8 months and I thank God for this Ministry. I was blessed to be a part of the Happy Birthday Jesus Festival in 2010 and see how God, through Wingard Home provided a wonderful Christmas for hundreds of local child.
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January 9, 2011
I have lived at Wingard Home for 8 months and this has been the most rewarding and wonderful experience of my life. I was helpless, hopeless and homeless and the Wingard family invited me to live in their home and become part of their family. I had no hope and I did not know where to turn. I have learned how to be responsible and trustworthy. I have a wonderful relationship with Jesus and I am not the person who arrived here last year. I have a fantastic job and I have been so blessed. There are rules and they are not difficult to follow. It is all about trusting God and learning to seek His will for our lives. It is beyond me how anyone could say anything negative about this Ministry or the Wingard Family. Anyone who comes here is treated with respect and kindness. They provide spiritual guidance, a warm, clean, comfortable place to live, excellent food. Many people are so abundantly blessed by coming here. The ones that I have seen be ask to leave are people who are not willing to follow a few simple rules. If you are serious about getting on your feet this is an awesome opportunity. Anyone who gives a negative review for the Wingard Home needs to search their hearts and be honest with themselves and try to change the negative and lazy habits that prevent them from following rules and better themselves. I thank God daily for Wingard Home. My family is grateful for the change in me and my life. God has restored broken relationships in my life since I have been here. Charlotte has always been open and honest with me and has always encouraged me to reach for goals that I felt were not obtainable for me. I have a deep personal relationship with Jesus and I have a purpose and hope. I know that God loves me and is working in me and my life. I am a completely different person today....Praise God!! Thank you Charlotte, Roy and the entire Wingard family. You all do an awesome work for God and your love shows in all that you do. You all have taught me so much and I appreciate being given a new life throught Jesus Christ.
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I've personally experienced the results of this organization in...
Spiritual. physical, emotional and mental healing. Through this Ministriy my life has completely changed. I have obtained a wonderful job, completed a tax course, I am a productive and positive person today. I have learned to seek God's will for my life. I am a member of an awesome chruch and I am active in jail ministry. I Praise God for the encouragment and guidance I have received at Wingard Home.
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If I had to make changes to this organization, I would...
Continue to Praise and Thank God for this awesome ministriy!!
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How would you describe the help you got from this organization?
Life-changing
How likely are you to recommend this organization to a friend?
Definitely
How do you feel you were treated by this organization?
Very Well
How did you find this group?
God!!
What, if any, change in your life has this group encouraged?
Everythig in my life has changed by living here. I have learned so much and I have been so blessed by this wonderful family and the Wingard Home. God, through this awesome family has, changed me and my life. God is the head of my life now and what an life-changing gift I have been blessed with. Thank you Wingard Family!!
When was your last experience with this nonprofit?
2011
January 9, 2011
to the young girl who is a lost soul we pray you are confronted with your own demons so you may see just how wrong you are.i am a 38 year old woman who has been through more trails that should of killed me.but the only thing that has been in my life is God. you dont agree because you are not looking at your self in the mirror.you seem to think life is handed to you its not.yes they do get to go to heaven because they are obedent to our lord father jesus christ.if any one thinks they can do better is one who needs the lord tapping them on the shoulder.the only reason you think this was a bad place is because you couldnt handle being a true human being with christ guideing your life. i can only pray you meet some one to change you evil ways and see the truth in your own mirror. being true to your self is hearing the voice in side your heart mind body and soul. the wingards dont judge a soul only demand the walk of a good spiritual daily life if this bothers you then you really need prayer and god
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i live here
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If I had to make changes to this organization, I would...
do nothing
1 person found this review helpful
January 9, 2011
1 person found this review helpful
The previous review from January 4, 2011, gives a very unfair report of the Wingard Home. The writer neglected to say that she had been late or just not shown up for several required meetings prior to being asked to leave; that she knew about her chores which are a very small price to pay to have a warm place to stay in exchange for room and board.
As a current resident, I feel that I need to set the record straight. Mrs. Charlotte has been very understanding with me and very indulgent of me from running me all over Jackson, holding a bed for me when I could find no place in the Delta where I am from, picking me up from the train station, plus carting me around to various doctor's appointments and job interviews whether she is under the weather or not.
The rules are not difficult to follow and each person is given a list of the rules when they come here to stay. The chores are not difficult; at the very most it takes 45 minutes normally no more than 30 minutes a day to do your assigned chore which is a very small price to pay for a place to live. Charlotte and Roy are very understanding and fair with their enforcement of the rules. There is not a person here who has not messed up once or twice who has not been given another chance by them.
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live at the wingard home.
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October 19, 2010
I was helped by seeing what I did not want to become. We can all learn if we are open to what God has to show us. I really believe God has a place for all of us and that was not the place for me. So I left, and I am better for it. If you suffer from mental illness or have some type of alcohol/drug dependancy, I would not recommend staying at the Wingard House, they are not equipped to handle those issues.
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I've personally experienced the results of this organization in...
Helping people for free and for fun.
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If I had to make changes to this organization, I would...
Close it down permanently.
1 person found this review helpful
June 13, 2010
1 person found this review helpful
I arrived at Wingard Home as a complete basketcase. That was in April 1999. Three months later, after Roy Wingard told me to listen, I was saved! I still drop by and visit and drive them crazy! LOL I love these people. Met so many other lost souls while living at Wingard. It's just a shame they didn't listen! I don't like being a "client served" ... I was parttime staffer back then. These people are part of my family! I will always be grateful to God's leading me to Roy and Charlotte!!
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I've personally experienced the results of this organization in...
Wingard Home is where I met Jesus Christ and took Him into my heart. I will never go back to what I once was. Thank you God, for using Roy and Charlotte in such a mighty way!!
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How frequently have you been involved with the organization?
About every week
When was your last experience with this nonprofit?
2010
1 person found this review helpful
June 11, 2010
1 person found this review helpful
When I was a teenager, I had severe problems, most of them occurred at home because my family life was unstable. As a result of this, I was a ward of the court. When I was 14, I went to live at Wingard Home. They gave me structure, love and continous support. I stayed there until I graduated high school. Later in life, after I was married to an abusive husband and decided I needed to leave but had no money and no where to go, I called Wingard Home and without hesitation Charlotte Wingard whom I still refer to as "Mom" said get your stuff and children and come home. She helped me get on my feet and enroll in college. Charlotte and Roy Wingard I can say without a doubt saved my children's and my life. I still take to heart the things I have learned from Wingard Home. I am the person and mother I am today because of Charlotte and Roy Wingard!!!!!
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I've personally experienced the results of this organization in...
my very own life!!!
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What I've enjoyed the most about my experience with this nonprofit is...
it gave me the family environment I desperately needes as a child!
The kinds of staff and volunteers that I met were...
were caring and loving!!
If this organization had 10 million bucks, it could...
help alot of people!!!!
How frequently have you been involved with the organization?
About every six months
When was your last experience with this nonprofit?
2008
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