Amber's Hope Maternity Home
We are launching in September!
Our clients are facing difficulties many of us cannot even imagine; domestic violence, mental health decline, addictions, and human trafficking-modern day slavery, to name a few.
We cannot tell you how many times we have heard,
“I know someone who needs your home, when will you be open?”
We have had several, in just the past few weeks. It is clear that it is time to pull everything together and open our doors to women and children in need.
We have spent the past 5 years planning and preparing a foundation that will support this ministry, for years to come. It is important to us that we are prepared to fully serve all pregnant women, facing homelessness, no matter their circumstance.
It has become very clear to us that we need 24/7 trained and experienced staff, in the home at all times. We have been praying that God would provide a qualified and capable team to support our clients dealing with the complex circumstances that they face.
We are overjoyed to announce that we have hired 8 remarkable women to work in our home and we are aiming to OPEN OUR DOORS September 30th. This is an ambitious goal, but after 5 years of preparation, we are not willing to hold off any longer.
Our first day of training! 9 staff, 2 board members, & 1 volunteer!
What’s Next?
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train staff and volunteers
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prepare and furnish the home
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welcome women and children into Amber’s Hope Maternity Home
How Can you help?
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Prayer- God has been moving in profound ways through this project! Please continue to pray for our future clients, staff and volunteers.
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Volunteer in the home
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Help us complete some jobs in the home
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Plan to join us for our New Year’s Celebration and Fundraiser- more details to come!
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Partner with us- as we prepare to launch our pilot project, we are looking for ongoing support. Please consider partnering with us and contributing monthly.
Fall 2024
Projects:
In the coming weeks we will begin some projects around the house. There are some things we need to complete before welcoming women and children into our home. There are also a few things on our wish list. If you can help with donating materials or would like to be hands on, please reach out today!
What we need:
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Security door in foyer
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Minor electrical fixes
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Some drywalling/Painting for a classroom
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Hand rails on deck and downstairs
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Landscaping
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Drop Ceiling install in basement
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Some plumbing ( to complete a bathroom and a half bath downstairs)
Fall 2024
Staff & Volunteer Orientation
Details to Come
To register or get more information, email Katherine at katherinenanninga@ambershope.ca
or call or text 780-284-7900
Summer 2024
We are moving forwards with plans to welcome our first clients this year!
2023 Newsletter
Chairman’s Report 2023
November 27, 2023
AGM-presented by Wayne DeBoer
The past year has been a turbulent one for the Amber’s Hope Maternity Home Board.
The Lord has blessed us abundantly throughout the year with many donations and amazing
community support. Yet the devil also has made his attempts as well to foil our plans. Let us
take a quick glance at the year that was what we have in store for the next stage of progress.
The members of the board worked hard to prepare many things behind the scenes for
the opening of the home. The website has been designed and formatted by the talented
members of our team and is getting put through its paces to make information and electronic
donating more efficient. The facebook site is constantly being updated with our activities and
upcoming events that help to inform our donors and hopefully get our mission out in the
community. How wonderful it is to see how the talented people are utilizing their God given
talents and putting them on display.
This display of talent was especially put into the spotlight with our headline fundraiser the
Dinner Theatre title “Unexpected”. The countless volunteer hours and meticulous planning,
rehearsing, decorating - and many more things I don't have the space to name - was amazing to
see and how well the production was received can only attest to the greatness of the Lord’s
work in our community. This was especially paramount in the weeks following the event where
we heard so many great stories of how well the night went and how touched people were over
the production, this was a testament to how hard the board and our countless volunteers have
worked this past year.
All of this was not without turbulence. Satan was and still is hard at work trying to foil our
plans. We are still awaiting key items that need to be completed before we can move forward in
completing our goal of bringing a maternity home to the community of Barrhead. As a new
board we have had our struggles, both personally and as a group, as we had to see members
leave, but as always the Lord is there to pick us up. Recently, the board hired a new member to
fulfill the duties to take some of the stress off of ourselves and also two new board members
have joined our team to fill the vacancies.
With this in mind we prayerfully are moving forward with our plans and are excited,
nervous and energized to do what the Lord has in store for us this year. I pray that we can see
the Lord’s work being done and that things can progress in His good timing. Taking this on
never was going to be an easy task, but with the Lord’s help and with our loving community, I
feel like we will strive forward and bring “Amber” home to Barrhead.
“God thunders wondrously with his voice; he does great things that we cannot comprehend.”
Job 37:5
Yours in Christ, Wayne DeBoer
Thank you for blessing Amber's Hope!
Please consider partnering with us this year