ROOM IN THE INN



The Room in the Inn program began in Nashville, Tennessee in 1985, to serve the homeless during severely cold and hot months. Today in Nashville, over 150 churches participate.

In Fort Worth, the Room in the Inn program began in 2007, and now involves sixteen churches, four of them United Methodist Churches. During the hottest months, July and August and the coldest months, December, January and February, the churches host from five to fifteen homeless men or women each week.

City Point United Methodist Church began in 2010 and currently host ten men each Tuesday night during these months. These men are screened by caseworkers at the Presbyterian Night Shelter. They are screened for any potential problems such as mental illness, alcohol, drugs, communicable diseases. They can shower, do their laundry and leave their possessions in a secure area at the Presbyterian Night Shelter . We pick them up at 4:30 p.m. on Tuesdays and return them to PNS, after 7:00 a.m. on Wednesdays.

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES FOR ROOM IN THE INN

Driver to pick up guests at the Day Resource Center on East Lancaster.  Must be an approved driver of church bus and leave CPUMC by 4:10 p.m. on Tuesday.  To be trained and approved to drive the mini-bus, contact the church office.

One or two to set out airbeds and make 12 beds with sheets and pillowcases on Tuesday before 5:00 p.m.

One or more to provide and serve dinner on Tuesday for approximately fifteen people, and to be ready to serve by 5:00 p.m. Each meal needs to include Meat, Rice or Potatoes, Salad, Vegetable and Dessert.

Provide breakfast for twelve by 6:00 a.m. on Wednesdays.

Provide sack lunches that the guests can take with them when they leave Wednesday morning.

Two innkeepers to arrive by 4:30 p.m. and spend the night on Tuesday.

Driver to return to the True Worth Place leaving the church by 7:00 a.m. Wednesday.  To be trained and approved to drive the mini-bus, contact the church office.

Two to each collect one half of the sheets and pillowcases and launder them.  Pickup on Wednesday and return by Monday.

Click the link below to sign up!
 
Contact Jack Teddlie at info@citypointumc.org for additional information.

Click here to register for room in the inn WINTER 2023-2024