Fall Clean-up
Thanks so much to the Elida National Honor society for helping us this fall by raking leaves and tidying up the landscape and playground. We appreciate your acts of kindness and service!
Together, we can and do make a difference!
Thank you for supporting Samaritan House’s 36th Anniversary Celebration. Using the words celebration and homeless shelter in the same sentence might strike some as a contradiction. However, the thought of those experiencing homelessness not having a safe place to go changes the perspective. We are so grateful for your generosity and for the possibilities your [...]
Anniversary Celebration and Giving Campaign Success!
Thank you for your support of Samaritan House’s 35th Anniversary Celebration and Giving Campaign. We are forever grateful for your generosity and for the difference your support makes for those who have been displaced by homelessness and/or domestic violence. We strive to assist those who are going through a difficult time to have a peaceful, [...]
Woven Together
Recently, as I was processing what had been a particularly difficult week, the image of a tapestry came to mind. After prayer and a little searching I found what I was looking for – a poem by Corrie ten Boom titled Life is But a Weaving.… ”The dark threads are as needful, In the weaver’s [...]
Love Thy Neighbor
Many of us are familiar with the story of the Good Samaritan. In this story there was a man traveling on a dangerous section of road where thieves often prowled. He was robbed, beaten, stripped of his clothes and left half dead. The first man that passed by the beaten man was a priest and [...]