They had an open house on Saturday 04/02/22. John stopped responding to my emails and I was not aware if I was confirmed to attend or not. I decided to still take the drive on from Fayetteville to Raleigh and was 3 min late due to a wrong turn my gps made. When I arrived the lady at the front desk was just looking at me through the doors for like 2 minutes before she decided to come and open the door. She told me that I am not allowed in for the information session because I am late. I explained that I was coming from Fayetteville and it is only three mins. She had negative 100% sympathy and stated sorry "John is a stickler for punctuality" and that I needed to reschedule. I walked out and decided there is no way I would want to work at a place that operated on such an unrealistic and rude way. Thanks but no Thanks. Three minutes .........seriously? 1 hour and 20 min drive? I am moving to that area in 1.5 months but I have no desire to work at company that callous.

We must practice what we preach. We are either spiritual or super religious. Religion will have you write pretty words, mission statements and core values but the spirit of God will require you to live by them. Religion will have you treat one person better than the next, just because it seems right to man. We must pray asking God to show us people. Instead we are consulting people to show us people. You can't be in the business of taking care of the homeless and needy while simultaneously creating financial hardship for others. That's not what Jesus would do.

These guy's really do care and want to see people flourish in the way God has created us to all be and thrive. They'll help set you up for success if you truly want it! God will open doors no man can shut!

Reverse racism is alive & well in the women's staff. I am educated, & was penalized for that. When you are intimidated because you use correct grammer, something is wrong. Tons of money flows into this shelter, especially at Christmas. You would not believe what I've seen come in, car after car bringing boxes & boxes & boxes of wrapped packages. This was 18 mo. ago. There were still two programs, emergency & 'The Program'. I wasn't looking to receive anything for Christmas, I had shelter, food & felt reasonably safe (from the outside). Don't know where all those hundreds of gifts went... people in emergency nor pre-Program saw any of them. This isn't sour grapes, these are the facts. Someone from this religious-affiliated business should be concerned. Very concerned.

Their facilities are great. They seem to want to help, however, I have had a stay at the South Wilmington Street Center and encountered some of the same issues. I am currently enrolled in their "New Life" program which is supposed to span a time of 18 months. I have currently attended for a week now. The program is structured great, and the facilities are decent. However, the staff an residents seem to have a problem with allowing "White Flag" guests, who obviously have no where to go, being in the building. They literally unplugged the main cable attachment to make it seem as if thede was no cable on the tv's in their entertainment room. I had to search for channels on each tv using the attenna function when they offer cable service that provides many more channels. When I asked about if they could fix it I was told that Hurricane Florence was the cause. They also make us work while in their "New Life" program which is fine with me. However, in order to save on janitors they give us chores like cleaning the bathroom. I am a firm believer in maintaining the place that you live, but not everyone feels that way. So, having to clean pee off of the floor and doodoo off of toilet seats and walls because of nasty dirty old men is not part of my criteria. I've been living here for about 2 weeks now and their protocol is all out of whack. Not all of the CSS workers are the problem but their system of communication is clearly failing the residents that they have brought in for their New Life program. I will have more to post later and future updates for as long as I am in the program.