This Year, We Built.
Next Year, We House.
Thank you for being an answer to prayer.
God is so very good. That has been the theme of our year at New Horizons. With your faithful help, we’ve seen
God provide the resources for our new twelve-bed housing program. We’ve seen so many of you donate your
time and talents to moving, painting, demolition, and building the housing space. But more than that, we’ve
seen young people energized by the hope of a home at New Horizons.
This year, we started building. Thanks to all of you, next year we’ll welcome our first young people home. Until
then, we continue to encourage and support youth as they leave street life. Our apprenticeship program is
expanding and successfully placing youth into jobs and housing. Our case managers meet youth were they are
and walk with them as they journey away from the streets. And we continue to offer food, clothing, showers,
and encouragement to teens and young adults who have no place else to go. God is so very good. Thanks to all
of you for being an answer to our prayers!
Mary E. Steele
Executive Director
INSPIRED BY THE LOVE OF JESUS, WE PARTNER WITH SEATTLE’S
STREET YOUTH ON THEIR JOURNEY TOWARD A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE.
Purchase tickets or a table for our March 7
Hope and a Future Gala
and invite your friends and family to come learn
more about New Horizons and join you in
supporting this great work.
PRAYER REQUESTS
Share the love.
Please join us in prayer for the
members of the New Horizons
community:
For James, who is in prison, that he
would still sense and know of God’s
unconditional love
For David who has made a move to
another city
For Emily, that she would be successful
in her new job
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For Michael to be able to replace his lost
his ID and in order to take the next step
to get housing
For Andrew who wants to start a training program and break the cycle he is in
and be able to stick with it
For Amanda who is five days clean and
trying to stay that way so she can be
reunited with her children
2014 annual report
As we chatted over french toast,
I told him I was working on the
annual report and asked him if
there was anything he wanted
to say about New Horizons. He
grabbed a piece of paper and wrote,
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in-kind $33,417
workplace campaigns $61,471
events $91,117
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capital campaign $559,634
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Thank you, Hudson Family!
Since early this summer, Colette, Lana, Luke, Jeffrey, and Asha have
graciously and enthusiastically cared for our youth by managing our
clothing bank. Every other week, the five of them roll up their sleeves
to make sure clothing and hygiene supplies are available and accessible
to the 220 different youth who come through our Drop-In space each
month. When asked what he likes about coming to New Horizons, Luke
says, “It’s just nice to help people.” Thank you for your commitment to
serving the homeless and street-involved youth of Seattle!
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youth are currently on the
waiting list for transitional
housing in King County.
INCOME
Thanks to you, we’ve been able
to establish and maintain such a
community.
―Adrian
75
50%
800
shelter beds are available for
youth and young adults in
King County.
or more of homeless youth
report physical or sexual
abuse at home.
referrals were made, on
average, every month in case
management.
Every soul that passes through these
doors comes from a different path of
life. To get such a variety together can
be difficult, and to keep the peace takes
a true community.
Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these
brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.
Matthew 25:40
THANK YOU!
of 2014 apprentice program
graduates are housed and
employed.
New Horizons is a place of hope, love,
connection, learning, growing, and
acceptance.
In meeting the most basic of needs, Esther has gained new perpsective on
slowing down and accepting youths’ invitations to enter into intimate relationship. It’s as simple and profound as drawing a bucket of warm, soapy water.
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“One day,” Esther says, “a young woman came in with a cut on her foot. I asked
if she’d let me wash it for her and she said yes. In that moment, all my squeamishness subsided. It wasn’t about the dirt and blood, it was instead a profound spiritual experience.”
Adrian came by Drop-In recently
looking for some job-hunting
resources and wanting to catch up.
the youth who attend Drop-In
receive additional services like
ID, housing referrals, resume
assistance, or GED tutoring.
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But that all changed in the last year as Esther began volunteering in New Horizons’ Drop-In center. One of her duties is staffing the “self care” desk where
youth can do laundry, take a shower, get clothes, and yes, receive first aid care.
found here.
Your support is making a difference.
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“Yes, it’s true I’ve worked in community health for a long time, but I don’t do
first aid,” says volunteer Esther Lorenzen. “If my kids sliced themselves open I’d
just call my husband―you’re up!”
Did You Know?
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For this volunteer, serving homeless youth is a spiritual practice.
TRUE
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THE LEAST OF THESE
18,650 volunteer
hours donated
program $899,076
management $164,877
fundraising $101,507
capital campaign $56,210
total $1,221,670