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Ministry kicks off drive for homeless shelter With corrected information 05/16/08 10:32 a.m. “Wow, I’m at a loss,” she said Thursday afternoon. “The way I understood it was they had funds ready and were just waiting on the church.”
‘Center of hope’ Anderson said that if he secures the $600,000 to pay for the building, he plans to turn the church into a “center of hope” that would provide additional support services beyond the food pantry, ministry and shelter. “There’s a lot of room in this facility,” he said at the news conference staged at the church building. “Rather than sending somebody across town to go locate somebody, we can say, ‘Go right down the hall.’ If you can give people easy access, they will find that the resources are much easier to attain.” There are at least 409 homeless people in Jasper and Newton counties, according to figures released in March by the Jasper/Newton County Homeless Coalition. Tupper said he was particularly disturbed by figures that indicate 21 percent of those homeless are children and 29 percent are veterans. “You can’t build a shelter and just shelve children in there,” he said. “We need services to address children. We need services to address women. We need services to address veterans.” Tupper said he believes finding money and volunteers will not be a problem for the ministry. “Money and volunteers in this community is not an issue,” he said. “Putting those dollars and those volunteers in the right position, focused the right way to solve a problem, is the issue.” Tupper said educating and uniting Joplin’s various outreach and support services is key, something on which other members of the panel agreed. Kathy Lewis, executive director of Crosslines Churches, an organization that coordinates with more than 60 churches in the Joplin area to provide food, clothing and other support services, said communication among organizations is critical to ensuring that the resources reach people in need. “If we don’t come together and know what each other is doing, we aren’t going to help folks,” she said. “Because the folks in need are going to slip through the cracks, and the folks that are taking advantage will continue to go from place to place.” Summit still out 
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