Fountain Baptist Church gives ongoing financial and volunteer support to people in need served by these organizations:




ISAIAH HOUSE

Isaiah House is a non-profit agency for children and families in Essex County, New Jersey. Community based and supported, the organization is the result of a 1984 alliance between the Community Service Council of the Oranges and Maplewood (a division of United Way of Essex and West Hudson), the Junior League, and the Concerned Clergy of East Orange. Having opened their doors in 1988, Isaiah House remains the only shelter in East Orange and provides temporary lodging, food, social and financial services, as well as comfort and hope for over 100 families a year.

Isaiah House is dedicated to those families who are considered "most fragile"-that is, those families who have been devastated by unemployment, illness, drug addiction, teenage pregnancy, fires and other crises. In addition to housing, Isaiah House offers a variety of support services to family members, including life skills training, instructions in household and money management, job search assistance, tutoring, medical referrals, and on-site drug and alcohol abuse support group. More than 60% of the families who have been residents in Isaiah House programs have successfully relocated to permanent housing.

MARKET STREET MISSION



The Market Street Mission fosters an environment and structure for the individual to foster ongoing sobriety. This is the time for individuals to sober up their bodies and minds and to bring some structure into their lives. It is here that men can really come to grips with the problems in their lives and deal with them. The Mission emphasizes recovery from drug and alcohol addiction with a Gospel Mission perspective. Mission staff and local clergy teach courses in chemical dependency and addiction and their consequences, group therapy, and Bible classes.

The Market Street Mission's Emergency Services Program fulfills immediate basic needs (food, shelter, clothing & other items of charity), gives appropriate referrals, and allows for identification of potential candidates for Mission programs. Of the more than 60,000 meals served at the Market Street Mission each year, over 21,000 are to non-residents, or people outside the Mission's life-change program. The Mission serves hot breakfast and dinner to whoever comes to the door. (Free lunches are served at other locations in Morristown.) The Market Street Mission provided 3036 nights of emergency shelter to homeless men last year.  Under the Homeless Shelter Emergency Program, a man with transient status may stay at the Mission and sleep on the chapel floor for up to a week.

BROUGHTON HOUSE



We believe that though many people are negatively impacted by social inequities, they have the capacity to make changes in their lives, given the tools and support needed, supported by Christian ministry steeped in deep faith in Jesus Christ and His Word.

Broughton House opened in 1990 and was originally operated as a program for homeless men and women living with HIV/AIDS. Services are provided to pre-release male inmates with special needs being treated with psychotropic medications, living with HIV/AIDS, and MICA clients (Mentally Ill and Chemically Addicted). Addiction services are an integral part of the program since most of the residents have histories of substance abuse. Some residents may have experienced conversion to Christ through our prison ministries program by the Holy Spirit.