The Muddle Ages

1986: The crisis of homelessness continued to grow relentlessly. In the fall of of that year, Faith Church proposed a radical new idea. If this small mission church could share their facilities with homeless families, perhaps there were others with hearts and homes open to share. After two years of preparation this simple idea developed into the Faith Home-Share Program.

1988: The Home-Share Program began. 

1990: The Home-Share Program sheltered 117 families in 20 homes in 13 South Shore communities. This effort more than doubled the 54 families sheltered in Hingham Interfaith Shelters during it’s first six years. At the same time, we began to expand the Interfaith Shelter program. First Parish Unitarian Church of Cohasset began to share a shelter space in their Parish House on the Town Square. City of Quincy allowed us to use a city owned building in Wollaston where we could shelter 4 families.

1996: Weymouth Bank helped us to buy a house in Weymouth, and two years later we bought the house next door. This is where we opened the Faith Place Shelter.

2005: We opened the Rehoboth Shelter in Norwell where we can shelter 15 additonal families.