Raindrop Project 2021



Raindrop Project 2021
 
Community Mission’s 2021 Raindrop Project supports the ministry of Canaan Men’s SAFE House (Substance Abuse Safe Environment). This year we want to support their life skills training with the purchase of four Chromebooks, software, security safeguards and books to support their self education.
 
How to Give
 
No single raindrop amounts to much. And yet all the raindrops taken together can make a big difference.
 
Choose any amount. Our small amounts of giving added together will help fund the entire project.
 
You can give either through check or online giving. Click here to give online.
 
Please write the check to First Presbyterian Church, indicate “Raindrop” on your check or online giving information line.
 
First Presbyterian Church will be sending one check to Canaan S.A.F.E. House at the end of our collection. The Raindrop Offering will be collected in the month of July.
 

Canaan S.A.F.E. House History

In 1992, members of Canaan Baptist Church and First Presbyterian Church formed a Community Relations Task Force to address how the Christian Community could work together in the fight against substance abuse. Plans for a SAFE House (Substance Abuse Free Environment) grew into a community-wide effort embraced by the Champaign and Urbana Police Departments.  SAFE House is modeled after the Substance Abuse Ministry implemented by Rev. B. J. Tatum in 1986 at Canaan Baptist Church.
 
On February 7, 1994 the Door of Deliverance opened as a haven for men to overcome their addiction. The Men’s Safe House, located at 213 S Central Ave, Urbana, IL attacks the problem of drugs and alcohol abuse through the Word of God, education, prevention and access to rehabilitation.
 
Throughout its 27 year history, the Program has experienced successful results. To date, the men’s Safe House Ministry has served hundreds of men and their families. Also, over 100 men have successfully completed the 12-month residential program. Past graduates are successful community members who contribute to society in a variety of professions.

 

On October 14, 2012, the 12-month residential Women’s Safe House opened its Door of Deliverance at 502 E. Church Street in Champaign, IL to provide hope for women suffering from the ravages of drugs and alcohol. To date, more than fifty women have entered the program and 7 graduates have successfully completed the 12-month residential program.
 
The SAFE House concept works! Both programs are recognized by the Champaign County Court System as an option for substance abusers.
 
Past directors of the SAFE house have been Johnny Harris, Rev. Carter. Both of whom had experienced recovery from addiction in the Canaan Baptist ministry. Brother Green had a long leadership even through his wife’s battle with cancer. The current director is Brother Raymond McCrary.  First Presbyterian Church has had several graduates of SAFE House who have worked on our staff.
 

On August 27, 2019 Matt Difanis, a supporter of Canaan S.A.F.E.house, wrote on Facebook following their annual Jazz festival in Hessel Park, “The center boasts an incredibly high success rate and such a high level of credibility that the criminal justice system frequently works to place those with addictions there. At the event on Sunday, graduates of the S.A.F.E. house could be heard telling their friends–as they pointed at Judges Ford and Difanis in the crowd–that “he saved my life” by getting them to the S.A.F.E. house. Sometimes the criminal justice system manages to rehabilitate, and in many of those cases, it’s because of Canaan S.A.F.E. house.”

Pictures and more about this wonderful ministry can be found at http://canaansafehouse.org/media/
 
As Jeannie Snoeyink has said, “God has blessed this program, freed many from drugs and taught them how to lead meaningful lives of service to God and others….We thank God for allowing us to be a part of this program since its inception and the blessings we have received from it.”
 
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