Heart & Home Programs

Ok, I've made a rather weird decision. If God wants to carry it out, He will. I think He does want to. We'll see. I want to start some private charities and programs where, when funding is needed, the money will come from the public in some way.

1. The first on this list is actually a ministry that I decided I want to start - one that helps Christian young women who've been raised in overly conservative, repressed, abusive homes, to learn about God's love for them. That will most likely just be a web site of some kind.

2. A charity I want to start is one that's similar to the ARC program of Washington State, excepting that it's actually FOR families of developmentally disabled/challenged children and adults who need care-taking. My brother Jeff is on the ARC program, but it's tailor made for senior citizens who are expected to die within a couple or so years. This causes all kinds of problems for the families of dev. dis. young adults, and real problems for the families of dev. dis. kids (because those families recieve no funding, counselling, or anything at all from this or other programs). So, I want to start a charity that speaks to the unmet needs of those families - one which would be supplimental to the ARC program (and similar programs in other states), and which would also work in concert with such programs (rather than rivaling them, which would only hurt the dev. disabled and their families in the end).

I've had other ideas in the past, but can't recall them at the moment. So, periodically, I'll be updating this list. As for my web site, Adventist Singles Cafe, behind the scenes work on it has gone well and steady for 2 years, though currently, Sharif and I are taking a break from that until I can find a job and start paying him myself. He's an awsome PHP/MySQL programmer! I highly recommend him.