by Katy Penner | Feb 28, 2019 | Mission & Values
We will do our part and help as far as we can, but ultimately, you choose where to go from here and create a life of sustainable independence. This is what we tell guest families who take the brave step of entering our program to learn new ways to use their skills and...
by Katy Penner | Feb 19, 2019 | Fund Raising
Please join us on Saturday to eat chili, have some family fun, AND empower homeless families in Wichita. Family Promise of Greater Wichita will be hosting our first-ever Chili Cookoff: Battle of the Congregations this Saturday, February 23, 4:00-6:00pm, at St. Mary...
by Katy Penner | Feb 11, 2019 | Volunteer
We are very excited to welcome Dixie Harris to our Board of Directors. Dixie has already been a great help on our Grants & Foundations team, and she has agreed to join the Board, a volunteer group giving overall guidance to Family Promise of Greater Wichita. Dixie...
by Katy Penner | Feb 5, 2019 | Mission & Values
We do this for the kids. Plain and simple, their success is the end goal here. Children who experience homelessness have the deck of life stacked high against them, and we each have the power to do something for the kids. This is part 3 of 4, exploring the different...
by Katy Penner | Jan 30, 2019 | Guests & Graduates, Staff
It’s important and fun to report the GOOD and happy news in the Family Promise program. Lately we’ve had a lot of good things to report in this work to empower homeless families. Happy News: Staff Reviews Guests have been talking about the...
by Katy Penner | Jan 23, 2019 | Mission & Values, Volunteer
Lately I have felt a push to re-think hospitality. Traditionally, it is a skill or gift that includes delicious food, pretty decorations, and a clean home. This could be part of it, but it seems there is more. Hospitality has a “going outside” quality to it too,...
by Katy Penner | Jan 15, 2019 | Mission & Values, Volunteer
A pastor, a bishop, and a priest walk into a meeting…. this sounds like the start to a joke, right? The differences in faith communities are easy to spot, but what unites us? We also hear this question a lot: HOW can 40+ churches agree on anything? Well friends, if we...
by Katy Penner | Jan 8, 2019 | Mission & Values
You probably know we work with homeless families, but why and how exactly does that happen? In the start of a new year and new season, it’s a good time to re-focus on who we are and where we hope to go next. We are honored to have so many new friends and followers...
by Katy Penner | Dec 22, 2018 | Mission & Values
It’s been a year of change and growth, and we have much to be grateful for. 16 new partner congregations have started serving for the first time this fall — YOU have made it possible for more families to have the opportunity to graduate into housing, into...
by Katy Penner | Dec 20, 2018 | Mission & Values, Volunteer
This beautiful testimony of her own childhood homelessness is shared with permission from a volunteer at one of our new Second Rotation host congregations, Reformation Lutheran Church. Over the course of my childhood, I encountered many personal struggles. I was...
