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Review for Good Samaritan Ministries, Inc., Johnson City, TN, USA
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.
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I've personally experienced the results of this organization in...
many ways, by heloing feed the people who come to the Melting Pot daily feeding program, by assisting the diners who come to the Thanksgiving meal in November, but delivering meal to those who cannt get to feeding programs and by filling monthly food boxe
If I had to make changes to this organization, I would...
Get access to the United Way and other funding sources so the GSM could do more to meet the needs of the community and pay some endebtedness that the ministry has. GSM never has enough to meet the needs of all who come to the door. The staff feels quilt
What I've enjoyed the most about my experience with this nonprofit is...
seeing the changes in people's lives, the expressions on their faces when they find that they can quit being hungry, when they caqn clean up, when they have dry socks and shoes wo wear.
The kinds of staff and volunteers that I met were...
wondeful, caring, sad when we canot do enough, guilty when we have to turn people away who have desperate needs
If this organization had 10 million bucks, it could...
be multiplied a thousandfold through the ministires turning people's lives around and allowing some to g back to work but it can also support longer those who are "the least of these" who cannot get $$ be safe and warm
Ways to make it better...
GSM had more funding to get more food, to hire more staff, to fuel the van to retrieve the furniture and other items for the thrift store so people can get more free and low cost furniture, clothing, tioletries, etc.
In my opinion, the biggest challenges facing this organization are...
keeping the income coming so the aid can keep going, in these tight ecinomic times the funding sources and supplies for thsoe in need are becoming more scarce and difficult to get.
One thing I'd also say is that...
GSM is in a constant struggle to meet the needs of those for whom life is a constant struggle due to various factors which keep them among the least. They will always be this way and be with us. We are told to care for them
How frequently have you been involved with the organization?
About every week
When was your last experience with this nonprofit?
2009
