My Father's House

With the generous support of our community, we are able to help families in need throughout the year, by providing housing, life skills classes, rental education, case management and so much more. We would love to have you be part of our mission in helping families transform their lives.

If you have any questions, would like to know more about My Father’s House or would like to tour our facility, please feel free to email me at cathe@familyshelter.org or call me at the office 503-492-3046 x222. I would be happy to assist you in any way I can.

God Bless you,

Cathe Wiese,
Executive Director

The Second Annual Golf-2-Give Tournament is coming!!! ** Monday, August 2nd, 2010 **

Don’t golf? Join us for dinner! $25 per person.

The event will include a 4-person scramble, box lunch and dinner and awards following golf.  Featured events for the day will include: Hole-in-One prizes on each Par 3, Long Drive contest, KP’s, Straight Drive contest, Mulligans, Player gifts, Silent Auction, Raffle and much more.

Registration begins at 11am. The cost before July 1st is $150.00 for an individual and for a team it is $600.00.
After July 1st it is $175.00 for an individual and $700.00 for a team.

Price includes: Green fees, cart, use of driving range and practice greens, gift package, box lunch, Prime Rib/Chicken Buffett/Awards.

Download a brochure!

Schedule:
11:00am Check-in & Driving range open
1:00pm Shotgun Start & Lunch on the go
6:00pm Silent Auction & Dinner
6:30pm Awards Presented

Images from last year’s tournament:

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What a joy to discover this week we’ve been receiving rave reviews on the site GreatNonprofits.org!  According to their website, Great Nonprofits exists to help consumers “…find, review, and talk about great — and perhaps not yet great — nonprofits. You already know that reviews by other people who have gone to a restaurant or tried out a doctor are the best way to find out about the quality of those services. If you have direct experience with a nonprofit, GreatNonprofits makes it easier for you to share your knowledge so that other people can discover the great nonprofits that are out there.”

You can visit the My Father’s Profile, and read all our reviews, by clicking here.  Hey!  Have something nice to say about us?  Why not write a review yourself?

Our Adopt-A-Room program is a one year commitment. When you commit to one year you will be responsible to furnish your room three to four times during the year.

When families move into My Father’s House we want them to feel welcome., and providing the new, needed items is a wonderful way to show them we care. When a family leaves the shelter and sets up their own apartment they take all the items provided with them to help them with their fresh start.

The room you adopt will have a plaque on the wall outside the room honoring you or your business. Furniture items do not have to be replaced because they are permanent in the apartment rooms. The average cost to adopt a room is $400-$500 depending on your shopping style.

Click Here to Download an Adopt-a-Room Flyer!

To adopt a room at our new facility, please contact Cathe Wiese, Executive Director of My Father’s House.

Cathe Wiese
PO Box 1147
Gresham, OR 97030
503-492-3046
cathe@familyshelter.org

My Father’s House has partnered with Vantage Point Consulting in making available to our residents, and the community at large, an on-line training opportunity through SkillSoft.

Courses are available for business skills, environment and safety, computer skills as well as IT and computer programming. These reduced cost courses are being assembled to assist anyone out of work or individuals currently looking for work.

Join our residents in taking advantage of the available courses or course bundles by enrolling in one of the many training courses. For every 20-courses taken by our supporters, our residents are able to take a course FREE. You can access the E-Learning site by clicking on the link on the right sidebar…or click here.

If you have any questions you may contact our Vantage Point Consulting representative

Peter at:  (503)702-9402.

It’s hard to miss our new look!  We’re excited to have an updated website to go along with our new, updated building.  Change is happening so quickly around here, and its exciting to be a part of it.  Please feel free to leave your comments about our site at the bottom of this posting.

This News and Events area will be your primary source of information about what’s happening around the shelter.  We’ll be posting upcoming fundraising or other events, news about our building and programs, as well as periodic updates on life here at My Father’s House.  You’ll notice in the upper right hand corner of the page two icons labeled “Subscribe to News”, and “By Email”.   Our News and Events postings can be subscribed to via an RSS feed reader or via email.  Click on the icons above for further instructions. Contemplative Prayer.