I have seen up close the work of Good Samaritan Ministries (GSM). They provide a multi-faceted ministry for those who are on the edge or who have fallen off the edge financialy. And in other ways as well such as health, food, medical and dental care. GSM is an agency of kind people who take great measures to share with those who have little to sustain themselves. For example, GSM provides help in paying rent and other housing costs, provide help with utilities costs, offer fod to the hungry through feeding programs daily with hot cooked meals as well as supplemental food boxes each month to those who can afford to purchase some food. The GSM also has facilities for the homeless to take showers every day, to stay clothed in clean and new clothing and to get/stay dry. The staff sees their clients as Jesus or the people whom Jesus helped when he walked the earth. Kindness and love are evident throughout the day every day.

Conflcict of interest displayed by Board members also being on the staff so it's like congress voting themselves raises and compensation packages, creating construction companies to receive contracts from the agency for which they work, hiring one another on satff. You scratcvh my back, I'll scratch yours. Parasite agency is what ARCH is,taking funds from organizations which have provided care for years and ARCH creating redundant agencies which are ill-equipped, naive,absen of compassion, and over-administered or at least over-staffed in administration, I drove some distance to a plannning program hosted by an ARCH admin who couldn't answer questions and had audience people correcting her, an all-day conference which had about 15 minutes of good prime meat if that during the entire day and was required some some of us had to drive 2-3 hours each way to sit and hear nothing but fluff for 5 hours, half of which we were sitting and waiting . . . This is a local example of the problems of gov't creating what on paper seems like a good odea which in operation is just another gov't boondoggle.