The mission of the Greenville Area Interfaith Hospitality Network (GAIHN) is to assist local congregations to share hospitality in the form of emergency shelter, meals, and transitional housing with homeless families, and to help those families achieve self-sufficiency and self-fulfillment. 

Area churches generously offer their church facilities to provide homeless families safe lodging, nourishing meals, and genuine hospitality. Advent UMC is committed to being a faith community of radical hospitality, risk-taking mission and ministry, and extravagant generosity. Through participation with GAIHN, Advent will be able to address the vexing problems of family homelessness and poverty by making a genuine difference in the lives of guest families.

• Families with children comprise 40% of America's homeless.
• 1 in 4 homeless persons in our county is a child.
• The GAIHN program is unique because they are the only emergency shelter in Greenville for single mothers with sons who are age 10 or older.

To learn more about homelessness, GAIHN, or how you can help, please check out the GAIHN website at www.gaihn.org.