Family Promise of Las Vegas

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May 5, 2006 - Family Promise holds 10th Year Anniversary Celebration & Benefit Concert

Can you imagine having to live in a cardboad box each night, as many homeless families do in these United States? We, at Family Promise wanted to make a statement about how our families (guests) have had to endure hardships on their way back from the brink of homelessness.

To do this, we created Cardboard City, a part of the event designed to uniquely bring awareness of homeless needs to our community and to assist Family Promise in our strategic plan to develop a transitional housing solution.

Participants (we called them "Citizens") used a cardboad box as their "home" for the evening. To become more aware of homelessness, they stayed one night and woke up the following morning with an appreciation for the support and shelter provided through Family Promise. Citizen received a ticket to our concert, a commemorative Tee-Shirt, and a place to set up their box "home".

Benefactors and Corporate sponsors were invited to donate through the "purchase" of land (Lots or Communities) in the City. Visitors (non-Citizens who did not stay the night) roamed the grounds, visited our display booths, joined in at the Silent Auction, enjoyed the entertainment on the grounds, and saw the City.

A Soup-Kitchen meal was available for those with an appetite, and the chili was heavenly!

Tim Searcy & Friends headlined the concert and the show was wonderful. Our thanks go to Tim Searcy, Bruce Ewing, Fred Harmon, Brian Kimmel, Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream (and, especially, Ben Cohen, who also attended the concert), the whole crew at Catholic Worker and so many others who worked hard to make this a very special occasion. Lest we forget, The fantastic people at Community Lutheran Church donated their building, land and all facilities.

There are a lot of pictures, so please feel free to visit this and other Gallery pages to see them all. This is the launch-point for them.