We Need Your Help
Ecclesia is embarking on a very ambitious project - The Hope Center at 77 Grand Street, Newburgh. If all goes well, Ecclesia will purchase the Holden Home, a 17,500 square-foot former adult home, at the end of this month. Click here for information about the vision, photos of the property and lots of interesting stuff.
There is no time for a big song and dance about this project. That vision you read about can - and, by the Grace of God, will - happen.
But, not without you. We need your help!
We have an opportunity to purchase a prime piece of real estate in a great location across the street from a new community college campus in a neighborhood where the need is extraordinary. We have an opportunity to acquire this 17,500 square-foot facility on half-an-acre at a great price - $265,000 - on great terms from St. Luke’s Cornwall Hospital, an institution that believes in us and the absolute need to serve our community.
But, we need your help!
We need to close on the property by March 1 in order to get a property tax exemption worth $20,000. It will take $65,000 to complete that closing and cover the three months of expenses we’ll incur before Phase I of our plan is up and operating enough to carry those costs.
We can raise the money.
But, we need your help!
As of February 1, we have commitments of $30,000 in matching funds toward that goal. It means that every dollar that you contribute
will be matched by a dollar up to $30,000. If you give us $10, we’ll have $20. If you give us $100, we’ll have $200 and so on.
It’s that simple.
We need your help!
Please send your tax-deductible contribution today to:
Ecclesia Ministries of Newburgh
PO Box 1621
Newburgh, NY 12551
Want to talk it over? Call Steve at 845-527-0405.
There is no time for a big song and dance about this project. That vision you read about can - and, by the Grace of God, will - happen.
But, not without you. We need your help!
We have an opportunity to purchase a prime piece of real estate in a great location across the street from a new community college campus in a neighborhood where the need is extraordinary. We have an opportunity to acquire this 17,500 square-foot facility on half-an-acre at a great price - $265,000 - on great terms from St. Luke’s Cornwall Hospital, an institution that believes in us and the absolute need to serve our community.
But, we need your help!
We need to close on the property by March 1 in order to get a property tax exemption worth $20,000. It will take $65,000 to complete that closing and cover the three months of expenses we’ll incur before Phase I of our plan is up and operating enough to carry those costs.
We can raise the money.
But, we need your help!
As of February 1, we have commitments of $30,000 in matching funds toward that goal. It means that every dollar that you contribute
will be matched by a dollar up to $30,000. If you give us $10, we’ll have $20. If you give us $100, we’ll have $200 and so on.
It’s that simple.
We need your help!
Please send your tax-deductible contribution today to:
Ecclesia Ministries of Newburgh
PO Box 1621
Newburgh, NY 12551
Want to talk it over? Call Steve at 845-527-0405.
Welcome!
We are so glad you found our site!
Maybe you have come on purpose; maybe you’ve just stumbled upon us. Whatever the reason, give us a moment to tell you what we’re about! Ecclesia is a transformational ministry of mutual learning, reconciliation, and healing as we serve the spiritual needs of marginalized women and men in the impoverished City of Newburgh, New York. We look for God in the “other,” and practice loving them as we love ourselves. We worship on the sidewalk in front of 98 Grand Street each Sunday and on major holy days. Each week, we celebrate the Eucharist at a table where all are welcome, no questions asked. We perform marriages, baptisms, and memorials and offer spiritual direction and pastoral care to all who ask. We reach out and advocate for those in need . . . offer hospitality to the stranger . . . empower and companion those “stuck” in the system . . . house the homeless . . . feed the hungry . . ..
We build community.
Maybe you have come on purpose; maybe you’ve just stumbled upon us. Whatever the reason, give us a moment to tell you what we’re about! Ecclesia is a transformational ministry of mutual learning, reconciliation, and healing as we serve the spiritual needs of marginalized women and men in the impoverished City of Newburgh, New York. We look for God in the “other,” and practice loving them as we love ourselves. We worship on the sidewalk in front of 98 Grand Street each Sunday and on major holy days. Each week, we celebrate the Eucharist at a table where all are welcome, no questions asked. We perform marriages, baptisms, and memorials and offer spiritual direction and pastoral care to all who ask. We reach out and advocate for those in need . . . offer hospitality to the stranger . . . empower and companion those “stuck” in the system . . . house the homeless . . . feed the hungry . . ..
We build community.
Finding unity in diversity
A ministry that began in July of 2006 with a half-dozen people gathered on a sidewalk has grown– and continues to grow – into its call to serve the whole person. Our rain-or-shine, snow-or-sleet Sunday afternoon worship service continues to bring together a diverse group of folks in celebration of God’s abundant love. Those joining the circle find support and encouragement as they explore God’s call to wholeness and their own unique gifts with which God has equipped them for service. They include folks like John who rides 20 miles on his Harley [yes, even in winter], Mike who walks two blocks, and a woman on her way from a soup kitchen to the library where she could rest a bit and stay warm.
Welcoming the stranger
SafeHaven, our seven-day-a-week drop-in center, set up shop in the lower level of a building at 98 Grand Street in November of 2007. Funded by a HUD grant, the center has a paid staff. Open every day from 3 p.m. to 9 p.m., SafeHaven is a warm, welcoming, friendly, safe, drop-in center where
homeless and otherwise marginalized persons can get a cup of coffee and a snack, relax, read, catch a nap, watch a movie, listen to music, or play a game. They can also talk with a counselor who will help them check out job or housing opportunities, find shelter for the night, complete paperwork related to SSI, social services or other public and/or private agencies, connect with a detox or rehab center or health care agency, or simply talk about life’s joys and struggles.
homeless and otherwise marginalized persons can get a cup of coffee and a snack, relax, read, catch a nap, watch a movie, listen to music, or play a game. They can also talk with a counselor who will help them check out job or housing opportunities, find shelter for the night, complete paperwork related to SSI, social services or other public and/or private agencies, connect with a detox or rehab center or health care agency, or simply talk about life’s joys and struggles.
From a knock on the door to a home for ten
Then there is Ecclesia House. Located at 91 Ann Street, this facility was more than four years in the making. It started with a knock on
the door of that property, a defunct 19-bed women’s shelter. The knock turned into a 30-year lease at one dollar per year. The lease led to a complete gut-rehab of the 2,800 square-foot building using a combination of grants and donations (about $240,000 in all).
The result is a debt-free, low-maintenance facility that is home to women in transition. Now operated by our partner, HONOR EHG, the mission of Ecclesia House is to provide a safe, stable, hopeful, inclusive, and welcoming residential community in which all members are treated with dignity and respect, encouraged to accept responsibility for themselves and others, and afforded the opportunity gain the confidence needed to move on to permanent housing. The women who live there are on their way from incarceration or rehab or the streets to new lives.
the door of that property, a defunct 19-bed women’s shelter. The knock turned into a 30-year lease at one dollar per year. The lease led to a complete gut-rehab of the 2,800 square-foot building using a combination of grants and donations (about $240,000 in all).
The result is a debt-free, low-maintenance facility that is home to women in transition. Now operated by our partner, HONOR EHG, the mission of Ecclesia House is to provide a safe, stable, hopeful, inclusive, and welcoming residential community in which all members are treated with dignity and respect, encouraged to accept responsibility for themselves and others, and afforded the opportunity gain the confidence needed to move on to permanent housing. The women who live there are on their way from incarceration or rehab or the streets to new lives.
Ecclesia Ministries of Newburgh, PO Box 1621, Newburgh, NY 12551
Email us at Sower@Ecclesia-Newburgh.org
Email us at Sower@Ecclesia-Newburgh.org