Veteran Program

Adopt a Homeless/Disabled Veteran Program

The Bloomsburg Fair Vespers Service Committee has sponsored the Homeless/Disabled Veterans at the Orangeville Manor for several years.

Our federal elected officials are responsible for these individuals and the program works like this:

These individuals are evaluated by the VA Hospital at Wilkes Barre PA then assigned by this hospital to the Orangeville Manor. This transaction is where we continue to have trouble. The elected officials claim that the Orangeville Manor is privately owned and they can no longer assist these veterans.

WHAT AN EXCUSE

Please remember the VA Hospital is a federally owned facility, which is now assigning these veterans to a private home.

My concern is these men fought for our freedom, now they are being treated like forgotten men, but should be treated as Heroes of the past. What would happen if these men said we were private individuals during the wars they fought in?

This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. In addition, we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers. If someone has material possessions and sees his brother in need, but has no pity on him, how can God be in him? Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue, but with actions and in truth.

I John 3: 16-18

MOREOVER, THAT'S NOT ALL:

The law is to give them sixty dollars a month from their pension checks. That gives them two dollars a day for their own money to buy personal needs, and that is not much in this day/age.

I would like to have the paychecks and travel expense of our federal elected officials for three months and give them two dollars a day...with no transportation. Just wonder how long that might last!

IT IS TIME FOR A CHANGE

Activities for the year:

February - Bowling

June - Yankee Ball Game

July - Knobles Grove

September - Vespers Service 2008, Guest of Millville American Legion MIchel Peterson Concert

December - Christmas Party

We have Eagle Scout projects at the manor if you are interested use the form below to contact us.

We thirty eight who sponsor the Adopt a Homeless/Disabled Veteran (form attached) program assist these veterans. In addition we have seven churches that do activities each month for the veterans. You can assist by filling in the form below. We are getting these men back into our world.

If you would like to assist these Veterans with travel expense by donation please use the form below and we will get back to you.

Full name:

Phone Number:

Comments:

To contact this committee use the form above, a member of the committee will get in touch with you.

The following people are invovled with the Adopt a Homless/Disabled Veteran at Orangeville Manor:

Anna Knepley - Bloomsburg, PA

Patti Roberts - Orangeville, PA

Ellie Beck - Bloomsburg, PA

Pam Summers - Bloomsburg, PA

Lorie Ebright - Bloomsburg, PA

Duke Carl - Bloomsburg, PA

Wanda Allege - Millville, PA

Jody Confer - Stillwater, PA

Ruth Robbins - Bloomsburg, PA

Brad Stangenberg - Orangeville, PA

Jane Kasenchak - Bloomsburg, PA

Joe and Carla Gross - Bloomsburg, PA

Peg Mac Donough - Unity Ville, PA

Rick and Gail Shaffer - Riverside, PA

Judy Strusser - Bloomsburg, PA

Barb Humbert Averys - Northumberland, PA

Dorothy Wagner - Bloomsburg, PA

Donna and Dale Yost - Catawissa, PA

Joann Kelley - Bloomsburg, PA

Carol D. Ovelman - Unityville, PA

Eugene and Jane Derr - Orangeville, PA

John and Val Muehlhof - Orangeville, PA

John Seveson - Bloomsburg, PA

Joseph Fowler Sr. - Catawissa, PA

Lily J. Craig - Bloomsburg, PA

Eleanor R. Drabot - Orangeville, PA

Tina Ferguson - Danville, PA

Andrew and Jill Barnes - Bloomsburg, PA

Pastor Darwin Goshorn - Orangeville, PA

Pastor Allen F. Acor - Bloomsburg, PA

Herman Ikeler - Bloomsburg, PA

The following churches and organizations support the Homeless/Disabled Veterans Program:

Catawissa Legion Home Association - Bloomsburg, PA

Orangeville United Church of Christ

Good Sheppard United Methodist Church - Bloomsburg, PA

Pine Center United Methodist Church - Millville, PA

Canby Lutheran Church - Bloomsburg, PA

Rorhrsburg Christian Church

Orangeville Untied Methodist Circuit

Bloomsburg Fair Board of Directors with the money from the fountain in the horticulture building during fair week.

Cosmetology Department Columbia Montour A.V.T.S.

Thanks to all of these individuals for assisting where our federal officals have neglected our freedom fighters.

If you want to help please sign up using the form above.

WE ARE MAKING A DIFFERENCE IN THE LIVES OF THESE THIRTY SIX HOMELESS/DISABLED VETERANS. THANKS BE TO GOD.

Veteran Photos:

Click here to see photos of the Veteran's events

"He Touched Me"