Who We Are
Greenwood Pathway House is a 501c3 nonprofit Christian ministry that serves homeless men, women, and single parents with children from Greenwood and Abbeville counties.
We offer a safe place to stay and the professional support that meets the mental, physical, relational, and spiritual needs of our clients. Our campus is a compassionate community where homeless individuals and families can thrive because they are safe, supported, encouraged, and valued.
Pathway House provides trauma-specific services designed to address the root causes of homelessness and to equip our clients to build a functional life, post-trauma, so that they can overcome homelessness permanently.
Our Mission
Greenwood Pathway House exists to help homeless persons navigate a pathway to physical, financial, and social stability while sharing with them the love of God.
What We Do
We meet each person where they are, in their unique circumstances, to provide customized services to help them overcome homelessness permanently. Our ministry is grounded in an understanding of and responsiveness to the impact of trauma that emphasizes physical, psychological, and emotional safety for everyone on our campus.
We provide temporary housing, meals, clothing, transportation to appointments, case management, counseling, coaching, skills training, and assistance in locating employment and longer term housing.
We believe that a relationship with Christ is the key to restoration, redemption, and sustainable change for everyone. We invest in the spiritual, personal, and professional development of people to equip them to thrive.
We believe that empowering and coaching people towards excellence improves the quality of our entire community.
Homelessness
Homelessness is a tragedy frequently misunderstood. It's about broken people— people of all stripes, young and old, from all sorts of backgrounds, with all levels of education, varieties of talents, interests, and life experiences.
What all homeless individuals and families have in common is repeated exposure to traumatic experiences. Some find themselves homeless after fleeing abuse, domestic violence, or human trafficking. Others have suffered through months or years of abuse or neglect as a child.
Repeated exposure to trauma has a lasting and dysregulating effect on the entire body and it makes people much more likely to:
- have serious job problems;
- be addicted to drugs and alcohol;
- become homeless;
- enter the prison system;
- experience health problems;
- experience mental health problems.
God makes good out of situations that may not seem very good at all. One might say that God fixes things that are broken, but in a way that only He can. He repairs circumstances by repairing people.
We are a Christ-centered ministry that walks side-by-side with our clients as Jesus does His reconciling work on them— and on us. It is truly a blessing to watch God address all of our underlying brokenness in our relationship with Him, with others, with ourselves, and the rest of His creation.
