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Friends, Partners, Donors, Supporters: social connections and meaningful work
experiences. Our homeless families find
Greetings and God’s blessings. We at permanent shelter sooner and the women
Samaritas are proud to share our 2017 in our Heartline program are staying out of
accomplishments with you. prison and integrating back into society in
larger numbers than ever before.
Our organization has continued to grow
and prosper. We are serving more children, Your support for this work is what keeps us
families, seniors, and persons with disabilities motivated and financially able to do the work
than ever before. While we are welcoming that connects people with the services they
fewer New Americans because of federal need, empowers them to become their best
policy changes, we continue to provide selves, and transforms their lives, enabling
newly arrived refugees with the support they them to then help others in need. It’s a
need to become productive members of our ripple effect that spreads strength and hope
communities. to those most vulnerable in our society.
Our services are varied and growing, and they Thank you for being the rock that starts those
continue to provide improved outcomes. We ripples of transformation. We look forward
have decreased the length of stays on our to many more years of serving others as an
skilled nursing campuses, returning people expression of the love of Christ.
sooner to their homes, where they most
want to be. We now serve more children in In His Grip,
their homes than in foster care, and that
means stability for the family and for the
community. Our persons with disabilities
are more engaged and active, through Sam Beals, CEO Dale Gerard, Board Chair
Board of Directors Directors
Board Chairman Randy Asmus, OKEMOS
Dale Gerard, BIRMINGHAM Sarah Prues Hecker, GROSSE POINTE
Mary Anne Jones, GRAND RAPIDS
Vice Chairman
David Morin, SOUTH LYON Michael Kneale, BIRMINGHAM
The Rev. Donald P. Kreiss, Bishop
Secretary SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN SYNOD, ELCA
Michelle Gaggini, RIVERVIEW Matt Pedersen, BIRMINGHAM
Treasurer Todd Perkins, DETROIT
Dan Carter, GRAND RAPIDS Mark Stanko, SHELBY TOWNSHIP
Brett VanderKamp, HOLLAND
