Jesus House

This review may seem like it's coming a day late and a dollar short because I stayed there for one month from December 2012 to January 2013. I was discharged from a nice rehab to Jesus House. The rehab was in Texas. I had been residing in Oklahoma for a few years. I no longer had employment, lost everything including my cats, but not my car because it was with me. It was Christmas Eve. I took what belongings I had and drove from the rehab to Jesus House. My first impression was the smell of urine in the main hallway. I found the director, who was Kevin at the time. I told him I didn't think this was going to work out. Right away, he assumed I was being cocky on a high horse. I had to wait a few hours until he did my intake but granted it was Christmas Eve and he was busy with the warehouse. After a couple days, he assigned me to clean the men's restroom by the kitchen that was used by men who were drunk and high. It was a mess. I promptly went to the doctor and got a letter out of doing that. At least let a man clean the men's room. Kevin was furious. He put me in that position in the first place because I was a Physician Assistant. If he was trying to use the tactics of let her have a humility job, I've done enough of that in my life time. It didn't seem like a very Christian thing to do. That's the issue with these places. The ones who kissed up to the administration as good little Bible verse spouting disciples were cared about and plenty knew how to play that game. I believe in God but I don't play games. It was winter when I was there. There was no heat in the ladies room to shower. I just ran the hot water while showering to at least be warm enough while the water was running. There were bedbugs in my room and they did a nice job of gnawing on my limbs. To go to the ladies room in the middle of the night, I had to walk down a flight of steps, walk all the way to the other side of the building then down another hallway. You could pee yourself by then. Plus men staying the night would approach me. The food actually wasn't bad and we got great sweets snacks at 8 pm. I understand it's not supposed to be the Taj Mahal as a homeless shelter. But it needed work. Why should people who are homeless have to be grateful with crumbs? Some people really are homeless for very legitimate reasons and are good people.

the Jesus house is a great place to get your life back on track.my brother Chris Jones did well over there and is thinking about coming back because the brother and sisterhood is great over there.

Staff had sexual relations with one of the clients there and staff allow the females to sneak phones in the facility and to do as they please but for the guys it's a whole nother story

I donate to the Jesus house whenever possible. I think they are a veryhelpful service to the community homeless or not. they reach out to neighboring families that have needs as well. It awesome to be able to feed people 3 times a day every day and other occasions. They more than helpful and welcoming of donations. Keep up the good and Godly work.