‘God cares about everyone’: South Carolina church to build tiny house village for homeless

South Carolina church is interested in showing God’s love beyond four walls. The house of worship decided to give a great hand of help for those struggling with hard financial situation by creating a tiny house village to help local homeless women find shelter and community.

By next year, First Baptist Spartanburg plans to build 20 tiny houses plus a commons building, after they have met with local government boards in 2021.

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The village is slated to be on property they own in the Northside of Spartanburg, adjacent to a ministry they have for the less fortunate known as “The Bridge.”

According to missions minister at First Baptist, Steve Wise, they started to give life to this plan due to multiple factors.

“We’ve been very much aware of the problems our homeless face and the problems in the city of meeting homeless needs for a while,” said Wise.

“Together with what we already knew about homelessness, conversations that were going on in our city with a homeless task force and others, that’s how we came to make that decision.”

The people in charge of the project made an estimated of the cost of the project affirming that “The expected cost will” be $30,000 for each individual housing unit, plus around $200,000 for the commons building.

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The idea is this place to be used for community gatherings for the homeless.

“The tiny houses are not designed for cooking and eating,” explained Wise. “They will [be] very simple, but we want mealtimes to be a community time.”

“There will be some meetings with everybody that we’ll be having weekly and there’ll be some special trainings and they’ll be one-on-one mentoring and coaching that happens and that building will provide some of the space for that,” he continued.

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And good news keep coming as Wise said that some people have already committed to pay for the construction, meanwhile the church is relying on volunteer labor to help offset the financial cost of creating the village.

He was optimistic about the plans that will go before the local zoning commission and a design review board, saying that “we feel very good about getting those” approvals.

“First and foremost, God cares about everyone. He certainly cares about our homeless friends,” he said.

“We really think God can do something amazing here and can bring about solutions,” he added.

Source: The Christian Post

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