Back in 2016, a family member alerted me that a photo of my son was posted on their website asking for $30 to sponsor him. We lived in Harlan, KY for all of 3 years before moving back to NJ, which is where we are from. We were NEVER in the position they claimed us to be, NEVER had permission to use his photo and NEVER needed sponsorship!! We never ate racoons or deer, never was without water, etc. I tried to file a police report but was told the IP address is out of Europe so nothing can be done! It is disgusting they are using the faith of others and making up stories, using photos of people's children without permission and collecting money for children not even in position of need. This takes away from those who truly need help! Kind of want to know how much was collected to help my son..it should at least go to my son in that case, who btw is now 21. By the way, his favorite subject was never reading.
It is a shame and a sin how this man, Steven Reese, uses the poor children of Appalachia to solicit money from the public. He is nothing more than a smooth-talking charlatan who pays himself a big salary and does little to. Itching for the people he says his "ministry" serves. Do not send your money to these evil people.
Press Release: 10/18/11
Shelter Rock Ministries of Boone, North Carolina, Steven Reese
Established in 2001, Shelter Rock has been ministering to the poor of the Appalachian Mountains for over a decade. Steven Reese of Shelter Rock utilizes a specific distribution tactic that allows hundreds of impoverished families to be served and ministered to at one time. This tactic is called the Day of Blessing Event. The Day of Blessing Event keeps a festival atmosphere with edifying activities to help the needy change the way they see themselves. Recipients are taught about the Love of Jesus, they are given an opportunity to accept Jesus as their Savior, and then their physical needs are met with a drive-through-style distribution.
After a successful decade of ministry—including over 100,000 families served, over 10,000 decisions for Christ and over 1,000 outreach events—Shelter Rock and Steven Reese continue to expand their efforts to the Native American Reservations of the Northwest. Locations such as Boulder, Colorado and the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming and other reservations surrounded by extreme poverty.
For example, Boulder, CO is a central location to over 100 Native American reservation. The Uprising of ministry on the reservations are directed toward isolated pockets of poverty. On these reservations, average annual incomes are as low as $5,000 per year.
This continued expansion is exponentially growing the outreach efforts of Shelter Rock and its partners.
Keywords: the uprising
Shelter Rock Ministries
Steven Reese
Boulder Colorado
Boulder, CO
Shelter Rock
I am a Eastern Shoshone on the Wind River Indian Reservation. These Reese people came to our reservation NOT to help the Native American people but to humiliate us. They told us they were here to help out the tribe not to USE us....I am very upset because they took footage of my 1 year old daughter and I did NOT sign any release forms for this. They also recorded audio of my voice telling them how it was living on the reservation. I also did not sign for that. They said they were here to help us not to use us as a way to get money. I speak for the tribe when i say this. THEY ARE NOT WELCOME BACK ON OUR RESERVATION!!!!!!! They are not good people they disrespected my family, my tribe and my church! This is not tolorated and will not be tolorated.
I am a pastor's wife at a tiny Baptist Church/Center on the Wind River Indian Reservation. My husband and I have served the people of the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Araphoe tribes for over 16 years. Steve Reese showed up unannounced in our driveway one day this past fall asking us to work with him as he brought a truckload of food to our community. We were eager to do so as the food IS needed by many families here on the reservation. However, we have been sadly disappointed by the Reeses and Shelter Rock Ministries. -The Reeses refused to distribute the food equally between the two tribes on our reservation creating a great deal of animosity toward us personally and toward our church among the older members of one of the tribes on our joint reservation. -The Reeses spent no time doing on the actual work of the distribution themselves. When questioned about this Catherine Reese responded, "I was preparing food for the volunteers."...They did travel 15 miles to and from the nearest Pizza Hut to purchase pizza for 2 of the 5 meals needed to feed the volunteers, but I do not believe that she was employed by Pizza Hut at any time during the week! lol -The plan for distribution that the Reeses use involves a tremendous amount of unnecessary labor. Instead of rebagging the food in plastic sacks that tear, the food could easily be given away with 1 or 2 volunteers per item.....this would eliminate about 80% of the work required by the current plan. -Steve Reese originally promised our church a part of the food to be given away for our church pantry from which we provide 2 free meals a week in return for our participation in the project. However, no food was ever given to us and when we mentioned that we had given some food to a sister church/in-house-treatment ministry which sent volunteers twice to assist in the project Steve seemed very upset and demanded to how much and what we had given away. -The canned food was all dented and with no labels. Most of the rest of the food was somewhat to very far past the expiration dates. There were mouse droppings in the pallet of macaroni and almost half of the packages were crushed to where they were open and spilling out. -Steve told me that he had spent over $100,000 dollars on the food on the Saturday before it was given out. On the Sunday afternoon of the distribution Catherine told me that they had spent $5000 on the food. (I noticed a slight discrepancy between the 2 numbers!) Also several of the workers noticed company labels on the pallets specifying that it had been donated from the original company. -At the begining of the week that we were working with the Reeses and Shelter Rock Ministries, my husband was asked to take the Reeses around the community to some homes with children so that they could give the kids toys and the parents gift cards to Wal-Mart. The day for this activity was changed and I ended up going with them. We had come to understand that they wanted to use this as a photo-op for their fund raising. We were very uncomfortable with this but did contact 3 families giving them as clear an understanding of what was to take place as we knew...however, after getting a parent to sign a very indepth, extremely legalized consent form (of which no copy was given to the parent), I discovered that they were walking the children out of view of the parents if possible and filming a sponsorship plea. This was repeated at the givaway site without parental permission or oversight....I am furious!!!!!!!!
I am a volunteer for shelter rock in beckley wv.and they are out for te children to let them know someone else does care my children and grandbabies love it.and momma kate is an angel we all love her and her family for what they are doing.in these time we need all the help we can get.sure they need some of the money for travel and getting everything they need to sing their sweet music that holds alot of meaning. mary milam beckley wva
My family was in their program,it was not long before me and my wife figured them out for what they were really up to,and thats using kids to get their money,sure the kids get some but they get the most,they being Steven and Catherine Reese.Look,they dont have to by anything,the food is donated,the clothes,the dental clinic,the volenteers....so they dont have to pay for those things.Now of course now that alot of money is coming in now they can afford to buy the kids some things and still have alot for themselves,slick aint they?They was nice to us until they knew we were on to them and then they tried to avoid us.I hope some day I can prove all this and shut them down,I want kids and families that need help to get it BUT I hate it when people like Steven and Catherine use people to make their money.I would love to be wrong but I'm afraid I'm not.PLEASE,beware of them.
