Our Partners
Host congregations provide space in their buildings to serve as temporary homes. The congregations serve in this capacity on a rotating schedule, with each congregation serving for a week at a time about four times each year. During the week that the congregation is hosting, participating families are present from 5:00pm until 7:30am the next morning. Our Partners work with our Hosts to provide the support needed to help us Guide Families Home
From 7:30am until 5:00pm parents and children are either in school or working, and they have the ability to use our Day Center where they receive case management support and can shower, do laundry, care for toddlers, and search for employment and housing.
Volunteers recruited from the host congregations and throughout Seacoast area provide hospitality by sharing their time, making meals, spending the night, playing with children and lending their passion and expertise to help families get back on their feet. In this way, family homelessness is addressed through a true community response in a very cost-effective manner.
If you would like to explore the possibility of your congregation or organization becoming a Host or a Partner in the Seacoast Family Promise network, please contact us at 603-658-8448 or .
HOSTS
Bethany Church, Greenland
Pastor Bruce Boria
Coordinators: Joan Schaeffer & Rev. Bob Whittet
Christ Episcopal Church, Exeter
Rev. Mark Pendelton
Coordinator: Christine Nelson
First United Methodist Church, Portsmouth
Rev. Debra Hanson
Coordinator: Jennifer Berry
Community Congregational Church of Greenland
Rev. Mark Brockmeier
Coordinators: Richard & BJ Lates
Hampton United Methodist Church
Rev. Dr. Steven Notis Coordinators: Russ Darling & Priscilla Fanning
North Hampton United Church of Christ
Rev. Mike Gelsomini
Coordinators: Sherri Amjad
Pilgrim United Church of Christ, Brentwood
Rev. Tara Olsen Allen
Coordinators: Doris Noyes, Curt Springer & Bette Orcutt
St. Mary’s Church, Newmarket
Father Marc Montminy
Coordinator: Helen Sanders
Stratham Community Church
Rev. Donna Muise
Coordinators: Marny & Joe Keith & Laura Batchelder
Unitarian Universalist Church of Portsmouth
Rev. Susan Suchocki-Brown (interim)
Coordinators: Janet Caylor
Amanda Donovan, Meg Leonard
Evelyn Moore, & Rocky Moore
PARTNERS
Exeter Congregational Church
Rev. Dr. Emily Heath
Coordinators: Laura Williams & Steve Wood
First Unitarian Universalist Society of Exeter
Rev. Kendra Ford
Coordinator: Helen O. Kruppa
Islamic Society of the Seacoast Area
Coordinator: Brigitte Herz
St. John’s Episcopal Church, Portsmouth
Rev. Rob Stevens
Coordinators: Kathi Hardy & Gerry Simpkins
St. John’s United Methodist Church, Dover
Rev. Sue Frost
Coordinator: Bev Haas
St. Michael’s Church, Exeter
Father Marc Montminy
Coordinators: Tom Blonski & Karen Polzinetti
7th Day Adventist Church, Portsmouth
Pastor Phil Johnson
Coordinator: Joe Afienko
Temple Israel, Portsmouth
Rabba Kaya Stern-Kaufman
Coordinators: Rachel Dennis & Marsha Herman
Durham Unitarian Universalist Fellowship
Coordinator: Dawn Meridith
Newmarket Community Church
Pastor Patty Marsden
Exeter Rotary
Coordinator: Maggie Dietz
Newmarket Lion’s
Coordinator: Brett Larkin
Newmarket Democratic Town Committee
Coordinator: Michael Cahill