Recent News
Super Wash on Phillips & Jefferson Streets and Super Wash on Morgan Street near Apperson are donating a portion of their profits to assist the homeless through CAM, Inc. the month of May, 2010. A basic wash and polish is $6.00 or 4 washes for $20.00 Special. Every wash you select will be a “special” for CAM to assist the homeless, near homeless, and those financially disenfranchised. We thank this local businesses for supporting CAM. For additional information, you may call Mike Adams, Manager, at 461.0525.
Kaylee Hartman, Western Elementary, is the Third-Grade Winner of the T-Shirt Design Contest for Howard-Tipton Counties Homeward Bound Walk, Mary 15, 2010. Her entry was one of 250 entries. The average age of a homeless person in Indiana is 9 years old.
The Second Annual Homeward Bound Walk for Howard and Tipton Counties is May 15, 2010, Tipton Park, 8:00 a.m. Registration. All funds raised stay locally for Alternatives, Inc., American Red Cross of North Central Indiana, CAM, Inc., Habitat for Humanity of Kokomo, Habitat for Humanity of Tipton County, and Mustard Seed. The Tipton County Foundation is the volunteer coordinator of funds collected.
Homeward Bound is a project of the Indiana Association for Community Economic Development (IACED) with eleven walks occurring statewide. Homeward Bound supports local non-profit 501(c)(3) organizations, which provide housing and deliver human services to revitalize Indiana communities and support Hoosier families.
Since its inception in 2003, Homeward Bound has raised more than $2.8 million for over 100 affordable housing and homeless service providers across the state.
To find out more information about Homeward Bound Walk, become a sponsor or donate, visit the Homeward Bound website at http://www.homewardboundindiana.org. or call Melody Imbler, 765. 438-9283, sdmlimbler@aol.com
*”Visions are quite often the simple part, with the hard part being the execution – turningthe vision into reality.”
CAM is a place to encourage dreams, vision, and assisting people called to ministries. Mary and Brenda are two such people. The Kokomo Urban Outreach Hands of Hope have been coming to CAM the 3rd Friday of each month, setting up outside, and feeding those needing a hot meal – giving blankets, coats, toilet paper, laundry detergent, various items needed by those with little money and/or those living from carts.
Mary and Brenda have also begun to volunteer as Case Managers with our homeless families.
At the last meal outdoors at CAM, these two were given the vision of delivering these meals to the elderly at the Civic Center Towers and Terrace Towers. This vision is in development.
Pray for Mary and Brenda and CAM as we continue to minister to the homeless, nearhomeless, and those financially disenfranchised.
* http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/leader/visions.html
January 22, 2010 ~ Kokomo First Baptist Church Preschool Presented 94 Mittens to CAM, Inc. Teacher - Ms. Amanda Arbuckle & Ms. Lenora Burtch This is their third year of collecting up to 100 mittens for the community. KUO Hands of Hope Ministry served a meal at CAM tonight and gave out hats, scarves, these mittens & gloves, coats, blankets, and hygiene items.
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The Kokomo has awarded our Executive Director, Rev. Ruth Lawson, with the Perspective Lifetime Achievement Award for the Year 2009. To see the article, go to http://www.kokomoperspective.com/news/article_d908aa5e-f576-11de-817a-001cc4c03286.html.
Thank you to Kokomo Perspective:
I would like to express my gratitude to you, The Kokomo Perspective, for granting me your Lifetime Achievement Award 2009. The Family Hope Center is a community effort and will be a blessing to many families in time of crisis for many years to come.
CAM, Inc. is a wonderful organization. I would personally not be able to reach out into the community, if it were not for Kathy Esslinger, the CAM Supervisor, who keeps all the many components of CAM running. Also, CAM works because of Gwen Melton taking care of over 50 Payees; Darrin Bogue working with supplies, volunteers, and clients of CAM; Teddy White who drives our van; and the many churches, organizations, Volunteers, and CAM Volunteers that keep our doors open.
Imagine the faith of the CAM Board of Directors, seeing CAM scrap by financially like many agencies last year, yet willing to give the o.k. for CAM to reach out and meet the need of our community for a family shelter! They are to be commended, under the leadership of the CAM Board Chair, Rev. Paul Sutherland.
In thanking you for the year of the Family Hope Center, I would be remiss not to greatly credit Pastor James Bradley and Family Worship Center for their leap of faith and concern for local mission to purchase the home at 320 East Walnut and being willing to lease the facility to CAM, Inc. for $1.00 a year.
With sincere gratitude, Rev. Ruth Lawson, Executive Director of CAM, Inc.
