Over the past several months, leadership from holy trinity and interfaith hospitality have been discussing the continuing — and expanding — need for effective support services for families in transition, including housing and social service transitional wrap-around support.

Interfaith hospitality network (ihn) works with whole families in transition, seeking to the highest degree possible to keep families intact during their sojourn through homelessness and into new situations of housing and family stability.  While, for good reason, most shelters in Spokane opt to separate homeless men from homeless women and children (even if they’re part of the same family), IHN is intentional in its aim to keep families together during very difficult times.

IHN coordinates a network of religious organizations who open their facilities to provide short-term crisis shelter to families, usually one week at a time, during which time IHN support services work with families to find longer-term solutions.  Well, those longer-term solutions are fewer and farther between these days, so that’s where holy trinity fits in.

Holy Trinity and the Diocese of Spokane own a house across the street from the church, which has been used as the rectory in the past and, most recently, as a home-base for young adult ministry in Spokane.  Holy Trinity approached IHN late last year to see if they might be interested in using the house as a 90-day transitional home for difficult-to-place large families.

IHN leadership is actively soliciting financial support for this endeavor, to see if we can’t turn this vision into a reality.

If you’re interested in supporting this vital housing program either financially or with gifts/labor-in-kind, please contact fr. paul at 509.263.7793 or paul@trinityspokane.org or kris at 509.701.1826 or warden@trinityspokane.org.