A Teen Residential Program and Community Counseling Center

The events of this year have provided all of us with plenty of opportunities for our hearts to grow anxious. We’ve been faced with COVID-19, social/racial unrest, an incredibly divisive election season, and then just the challenges we each face personally. I walked through the loss of my father early in 2020, and I know so many others who have faced the loss of loved ones this year. There have been strained relationships, loss of jobs, the challenge of children in and out of school, friends/families with cancer diagnoses and other sickness, loss of opportunities, and it seems the list goes on and on. I can honestly say I’ve never lived through a year like this. It has left me longing for peace in my own heart.

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We have incredible news to share!! Through a generous gift from a single family the final $100,000 needed to complete our Capital Challenge has been met. Please join us in praising God for his abundant provision!! We will be gathering these remaining funds over the next month and then engaging with our challenge partner for the remaining $175,000 grant to complete the capital campaign. We’re actively working now to complete the necessary permitting to begin our new girls home. We hope to break ground in the beginning of the New Year. Thanks to each of you who has given toward this campaign and has joined us in praying for God’s provision. Yet another article about coping with uncertainty in a nation and community in turmoil and the personal challenges it brings. From COVID 19 to politics, these are scary times.

So how are we to cope? The world, even some faith-leadership, is overflowing with counsel.

Some counsel “trust that God is in control.” But is He really? How does that work exactly? Has he picked the winners and losers? How can that be when so much of what is going on is patently ungodly. Can God be accountable for a world gone mad? When pandemics strike, whatever that means, is God responsible for the real ravages of disease or for the usurpation of power in a “crisis,” wresting control from individuals in a god-like pretense of caring for the vulnerable? Which is worse, a virus or prolonged confinement, unemployment and separation from loved ones? In times like these, to say God is in control is not very flattering to God. Pain and suffering has long been a wedge between experience and faith.

CLICK HERE TO READ FULL ARTICLE End of year giving makes up a significant portion of our budget for meeting our day-to-day operating costs. We have a generous partner who has issued a Christmas challenge. They will match dollar-for-dollar every general donation given between now and through Christmas day up to $12,500. This will give us a total of $25,000 to continue making a difference in the lives of all those we serve. Will you consider a financial gift to The Joy House as part of your Christmas giving. If you would like to give by check please make it out to The Joy House, note in the memo line “Christmas Challenge” and mail to: The Joy House – PO Box 247 – Jasper, GA 30143. If you would like to give online you can follow this link. All donation give online through this link will be tracked as part of the challenge. Thanks for your consideration.

Our Holiday Newsletter made its way to mailboxes this month. For those of you that did not receive the newsletter a digital version is available below.

CLICK HERE TO VIEW OUR HOLIDAY NEWSLETTER What if you could make a difference in the education of a teen at The Joy House through dollars you are already going to spend? What if you could receive a dollar-for-dollar tax credit by helping a Joy House teen with their education? The good news is you can through the Georgia Education Expense Tax Credit Program. This program has become a very important source in funding for us over the past 3-5 years. We are funding a large majority of our educational expenses through this program. Several of our partners have found this is a great way to give and realize the tax credit benefit. We are looking for a few more partners to join us for the 2021 tax year with a goal of funding our entire educational program. Please follow this link for the details on our website. If you need more information please contact Steve at 706-253-7569 or [email protected]. Thanks for your consideration and we hope many of you will choose to take advantage of this as we roll into the New Year and make a difference for a teen at The Joy House.

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