Where do you go for help if you and your family are homeless? Family Promise of Jacksonville and its partners, like Lakewood UMC, work with other social agencies in Jacksonville to provide shelter and hope for the homeless. But what happens when a homeless person tests positive for COVID-19? Where can he or she rest safely in isolation while recovering from COVID?
In Jacksonville, a network of isolation hotels was created during the pandemic to provide safe housing and support to homeless COVID sufferers. With the current escalation of COVID cases in our area, the need for isolation care is greater every day. All of our city’s homeless shelters and social agencies are working together to provide for this need.
Mark Landschoot of Family Promise of Jacksonville has reached out to our Lakewood family and to the other 16 churches who support this important ministry with a request for supplies needed to serve those housed in isolation hotels in our city.
Supplies needed at this time include:
-Underwear in all sizes, for males and females
-Bottled Water
-Individual bags of chips
-Brown paper lunch bags
-Medical gloves (Sizes small, medium and large)
-N95 face masks
-Paper Towels
You may bring your donated supplies to the church office and they will be delivered to the Family Promise office or you can order supplies on-line and have them delivered directly to Family Promise of Jacksonville, 431 University Blvd. N., Jacksonville, FL 32211. You may also make a directed donation to Family Promise of Jacksonville. Be sure to indicate that your donation is intended for isolation hotel supplies.
If you have any questions about the isolation hotels, requested supplies, or Family Promise, please contact Mark Landschoot at Family Promise (904-859-1326).
