3e Restoration Incorporated

General information

What We Mean When We Talk About Homelessness:

We believe everyone deserves a home. By home we mean something more than a house. A house is a building; a home is a dwelling place. A house is made of wood or brick or mud or thatch; a home is made of stories and relationships and memories. Houses can be bought and sold but home is never up for sale. Home is a bounded place that provides both definition and openness, structure and flexibility. It is a place and space, a web of stories and symbols and rituals and relationships where a common life is cultivated and human flourishing happens.

Homelessness not only occurs when someone losing a dwelling place, but also when abandonment, despair, unfamiliarity and feeling out of place all come together in a loss of social and cultural identity. It is an all-consuming displacement and a deeply traumatic experience. This is why we prefer the term social displacement.

Therefore when it comes to housing we can not continue to do it in a traditional way with a traditional understanding. We help others find a house but we also introduce them to a web of hospitable relationships that can restore them socially, physically, cognitively, emotionally and spiritually. This is why we Equip, Encourage, and Empower faith communities to do the same for families to transition them from homelessness to holistic sufficiency. It is a labor of love rooted in gracious hospitality and friendship.

The 3e Restoration Ministry is a Process not a Program. Programs most often come with metrics and measures of success. The 3e Restoration Process is not concerned with metrics and measures of success, only faithfulness and healthy life-style development.

Programs are often project oriented with a desired outcome in mind. The 3e Restoration Process is people oriented with a desired outcome of genuine friendship powerful enough to change lives.

Our approach is both qualitative and quantitative. Our qualitative method of measuring progress includes stories, incidents and symbols that represent the systemic shifts taking place in the lives of the Friends In Need. Our approach is quantitive as it measures the key dimensions of activity the friend in need successfully attains when placed in contrast to how these activities were performed in the past, i.e. learning and applying symbols and making better decisions VS impulsive decision making; accomplishing major task VS. procrastination or running from responsibility, etc.

If you are looking for a new Program for your Church or faith community, the 3e Restoration Process is probably not for you. But if you are looking to be a part of something life-giving that has the power to change many lives, including those in your Church and faith community, and make a significant impact in the city, then the 3e Restoration Process may be worth a deeper look.