Helping Hands Healing Hearts

We aim to to fill a gap in solving these deficiencies that other agencies or social services cannot fill. We presently aim to provide temporary relief for the homeless and have a future goal to enable permanent relief.

We have made and continue to make our presence and services known to the needy, social agencies, and churches in our community through flyers, newspaper articles, emails, phone calls, social media, presentations and word-of-mouth. We work in partnership with social agencies and churches to fulfill needs.
We have a center where persons come and are interviewed to evaluate their needs and become clients. We take in donations of food, clothes, personal care items, housewares, and furniture from the community. Our volunteer staff then sort and organize these items. We in turn distribute these items to clients free of charge to meet their material needs.
When a client has a financial need, we validate the need and partner with up to four churches to supply the funds for that need. We also supply phone cards and gas vouchers.
When a client is homeless, we pay for 1-2 motel nights for temporary relief.
When a client has a spiritual and or emotional need, we listen to their story; offer encouragement, in-house pastoral counseling, and prayer; offer classes to address their need; and offer referrals to other counseling and agencies that would better meet their need.
We open our center three afternoons a week, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, to receive clients. We are open an extra one and one half hours on Tuesdays since there are no other pantries open after 4:00 pm.

We have a 1000 + sq ft area in the back of Sanpoint Church of God where we receive donations, house our goods, and serve clients.
Codirector Jon Pomeroy has a Masters of Divinity with 35 years pastoral of miistry that qualifies him for in-house pastoral counseling. Codirector Cathy Pomeroy has a Bachelors of Language Arts Secondary Education with 12 years of teaching experience that qualifies her to develop classes that are educational as well as mentoring in nature. This couple has served the Sandpoint community for 23 years as pastors of Sandpoint Church of God and has excellent rapport that has been instrumental in receiving financial support from the churches.
Sandpoint has a uniquely dedicated group of churches that is committed to working together as is demonstrated in this joint ministry. And Helping Hands Healing Hearts has a highly respected reputation in the community which has drawn many material donations as well as financial donations from individuals.
Lastly, this organization has 16 committed volunteers that sort and organize donations as well as serve clients.

Since opening May 9, 2017 until time of this writing October 7, 2021, we have served 1,837 adults and children through 3,825 visits.
Helping Hands Healing Hearts future plans are threefold: expand spiritual and emotional aide to clients, expand aide to the homeless, and improve our present client center
We plan to expand our spiritual and emotional aide to clients through mobilizing our supporting churches in a one-on-one mentoring program.
We plan to expand our aide to the homeless by building a 44 studio apartment complex with daycenter/office/classroom, called The Good Samaritan Inn, which will be a transitional living center for the homeless.
We plan to improve our present client center. Presently, we are in the back of Sandpoint Church of God.
We have excellent church community for mentorship programs. We plan to begin with a Faith and Finances program with client incentives to enroll and complete. From there we will expand our classes.
We have two acres of land in Ponderay, ID adjacent to Sandpoint, ID, and are actively fund raising for the building of The Good Samaritan Inn, a transitional living center for the homeless.
When we build The Good Samaritan Inn, we plan to build a new building for Helping Hands Healing Hearts on the property with The Good Samaritan Inn.