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Originally Posted by retiredguy123
Just to clarify, it is a church, but the services you mentioned are funded with taxpayer money.
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We happen to be paying for a formerly homeless ex-convict whom we have love deeply to go through the residential drug and alcohol rehab at Christian Care Center at First Baptist in Leesburg. He is our starfish (assuming you are familiar with the starfish “parable” that you can’t save them all, but you can surely save ONE—and what is EVERYONE saved just ONE?!)
The funding comes from the churchgoers both at First Baptist and other area churches and private donations from individuals and area businesses. They have great success rates with the myriad programs offered by this terrific church. This is a church that puts its money where the gospel lives and breathes and changes lives!
There is a good movie out with Dean Cain, Sean Young and T.C Stallings about this church and it’s ministries that I highly recommend.
This is the trailer:
No Vacancy (2022) - IMDb
This is where you can order a DVD or stream it:
No Vacancy | Kingstone Studios
If EVERY town had a church and community that had one of these Christian care villages with great holistic care we still couldn’t eradicate the problems of mental illness and drugs. We have decades of doing nothing to fix the problem and decades of CREATING the problem.
A complete breakdown of the foundations for building healthy children functional adults and societies (faith, family and community…all deeply broken structurally in this country starting in the late 60s) leaves us with the human and societal wreckage that keeps growing year by year.
It is heartbreaking.
As to the encampments that have GREATLY increased in the villages area in past two years, they WILL proliferate if the problem is not nipped in the bud ASAP. Crime will go up, safety will be at risk, and the ability to enjoy what you have worked and sacrificed to save for in retirement will be in jeopardy.
There are no easy or prolific solutions to the root issues of broken souls, addicted and mentally I’ll souls restlessly wandering the earth like zombies. The Ocala forest has a massive number of homeless people and provides a place where they can pitch a tent and create micro communities. Is that optimal? Nope. But it is doable.
These people DO need to be removed from our residential and commercial areas before a stronghold is created. St Augustine and myriad other cities that haven’t normally had much of a homeless issue; did not act quickly enough or strongly enough in the past couple of years to the new type of homeless (young, socially malformed, aggressive, mentally unstable and addicted people) moving into their city and it has created real issues for business and tourism.