Winter Freeze Shelter MinistryFebruary

2019Volume 6 • Issue 3 NEWSLETTER

By John MosesYouth Services System CEO

www.youthservicessystem.org

Many volunteers make sure our guests at the Youth Services System Winter Freeze Shelter Ministry don’t go to bed hungry. In addition to providing the funds to keep the lights on and pay staff members, our volunteers and donors help provide a hot meal every night.

Every Monday throughout the 90 days the shelter is open, for instance, River City Restaurant cooks a meal and delivers it to our door.

There’s also the Vineyard Church in Wheeling, which has chosen the Freeze Shelter the past two years as part of its annual Be the Blessing campaign.

“The Freeze Shelter fulfills such a need and makes a great impact on the lives of those that come through the door,” said Vineyard volunteer Victoria Smith. “When discussions of who we would partner with in 2018

started, the Freeze Shelter was a must, and through many hurdles, our volunteers made just over 1,400 meals.”

Vineyard head pastor Chris Figaretti added: “Special thanks to Cheryll Post and her team who did all the cook-ing at the Vineyard, and to the congregation at large who opened their hearts and wallets and donated the money to purchase the food. This project continues to teach us that it truly is better to give than to receive.”

YSS’s own Mulholland Juvenile Center and McCrary Center staff also provide many meals, as do several other local restaurants. Some of the money donated to the shelter goes to purchase bread, peanut butter, coffee, and paper goods.

It’s a communitywide effort to ensure our neighbors without shelter feel nourished in body and soul.

Love— American Chef Giada de Laurentis

Food brings people together on manydifferent levels.

It’s nourishment of the soul and body.It’s trulyLove.

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YSS employee Holly Fox checks the slow cookers in the Winter Freeze Shelter common room.

Community Prepares Meals

Does God really intervene in His creation?

Let me tell you a story.Several weeks ago, a wom-

an who has stayed with us during the past several years was moving slowly in the morning. After everyone left I sat down with her, and the flood gates opened. She was crying uncontrollably because her doctor told her she would be dead in a year if she con-tinued to drink alcohol.

“I’m going to die in the streets,” she told me.

Knowing her history, I could only hope some miracle would occur to change her trajectory.

I recently met with her again. I was awed to discov-er she's a new person. She entered a detox unit and is working a rehabilitation pro-gram. She is anxious to get a job and start a new life.

We often hear people use the phrase “by the grace of God” to describe a logic-de-fying change in their lives. Often, the miracle not only affects the person experi-encing it, but also those who witness it.

I don't think it’s a coin-cidence that the woman’s name means “manifestation of God.”

We’ve had more than 170 different people come through our doors since the Winter Freeze Shelter opened on Dec. 15 — the most we’ve ever had.

Every one of them has a story to tell.

Volunteers from the Vineyard Church prepare to pack box-es with food they prepared for the Winter Freeze Shelter.

Witnessing An Intervention

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Thank You to Our Supporters

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The Laborers Local 1149 Retirees Council deliv-ered a trunk full of food and other donations for the Winter Freeze Shelter Ministry in January. Pictured are Larry Donato from the council with YSS employee Sarah Carpenter.

A LABOR OF LOVE

A COLLECTIVE EFFORTOn Dec. 15, members and friends of the Bridge+Tunnel Collective staged a Christmas concert at Oglebay Institute Towngate Theatre to benefit the Winter Freeze Shelter. The sold-out show illustrated the power of music to unite people for a good cause.

YSS board member Robert Gaudio serenaded the audience with “Silent Night” in five languages.

Michael J. Iafrate dedicated “The Rebel Jesus” to YSS CEO John Moses.

Second-grade students at Wheeling Country Day School spent time on Martin Luther King Jr. Day visiting Youth Services System Inc. to learn about our homeless guests and fill gallon bags with necessities and snacks for them. Said CEO John Moses: "Thank you, WCDS, and the compassionate adults shaping their lives!"

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Winter Freeze Shelter MinistryNEWSLETTER

E. Marc AbrahamArt BertolDarryl ClausellEdward J. CorbittMeredith DailerRobert J. DobkinRalph EdwardsEmily FreemanRobert J. GaudioRod LeeWilliam C. Mercer Susan MortakisMatt PorterWayne Smith

YSS Board Of DirectorsEmily S. FisherChair

Dion ScriptureVice-Chair

Zak ZatezaloSecretary

Justin PastoriusFinance Committee Chair

What We Need

Soup SocialPLEASE BE OUR GUEST!

For friends and supporters of the YSS Winter Freeze Shelter Ministry

Tuesday, March 19 • 5:30 p.m.River City Banquet Hall1400 Main St., Wheeling

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The Winter Freeze Shelter is a ministry supported by the community through YSS, a 501(c)3 nonprofit charitable organization.

Your tax-deductible donation helps your neighbors in need. Send checks to:

Youth Services System, Inc., P.O. Box 6041

Wheeling, WV 26003 Payable to Youth Services System, Inc.

Monetary DonationsAlways Welcome Sophie Moses Free Store at YSS

Donations of household goods & clothing accepted M-F 9 am to 4 pm, 87 15th St., Wheeling

Stop in and see Lee Lee!

Free Store is OPEN TO

THE PUBLICNoon-2 p.m.Wednesdays

& Fridays

As we prepare to close the 2018-19 season of the Winter Freeze Shelter on March 15, we are asking for donations that will help our guests achieve shelter and warmth in the coming weeks:

TENTS • TARPSSLEEPING BAGS •

BACKPACKS • BOOTS • SOCKS

• THERMALS• COATS