Faith Family Hospitality Overnight Program (part of Family Housing Network)

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Faith Family Hospitality (FFH), our overnight program, accommodates four guest families (up to 22 parents and children) at a time. This interfaith project unites 28 diverse faith communities through a shared mission of service. Families stay at a host faith community (supported with volunteers from 1-2 other faith communities)for one week at a time, and then rotate to the next faith community. Families arrive each evening at 5 and receive a warm, nutritious evening meal, breakfast each morning, packed snacks/lunches, and gracious hospitality and volunteer support from FFH member congregations. Individuals participating in FFH through VolunteerMatch DO NOT need to be part of a specific organization but will be matched with one faith community to provide ease and consistency for each quarterly rotation.

Self-directed volunteer teams, following established FHN Guest and Host Guidelines, provide for the range of hosting duties. All volunteers will participate in a one hour training prior to the first shift. Details will be provided during this training but in general there are 3 particular shifts that need to be covered each evening. Shifts are posted on a signup genius link.

Evening host (5-8 pm): Greet guests and 5 and help with whatever they might need. Help meal hosts get dinner prepared, served, and cleaned up. Stay until 8 pm when overnight hosts arrive.

Meal host (5:30-7:30 pm): Come and serve a pre-made dinner to a specified number of guests and clean up after.

Overnight host (8 pm-7 am): Arrive and gather pertinent information from the evening hosts. Lock facility doors at 10 pm and sleep at the faith community site, waking up in time to serve coffee, a cold breakfast and help families pack snacks/lunch before they leave at 7 am.