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EVENTS
SHALOM CENTER BEGINS NEW BUILDING CONSTRUCTION
Due the increased demand for services, Shalom Center’s Board of Directors in May 2024 authorized the construction of a new building to facilitate its services to clergy and men and women religious.
According to Dan Kidd, Executive Director, the new building will include a state of the art commercial kitchen, a much enlarged dining space, a living room for the residents, and an outside patio.
“With the increase in residents needing our services, we are really crowded in our current dining room with residents and staff, and the new building will help us to feed everyone in one dining area,” Kidd noted.
The current kitchen and dining room will be converted to needed office space for counselors and doctors and much-needed storage space for records and files.
Since 2011, Shalom Center has increased from 40 priests and religious served per year to 118 priests and religious receiving services this year. In addition more than 200 others have received educational training this past year.
General Contractor for the new building is Robin Rueby of Rueby Homes in Kingwood.
Anyone making a contribution of $1000 or more will be recognized on a plaque in the new building, and residents will pray for our benefactors.
“Out of the believer’s heart shall
flow rivers of living water.”
John 7:38
Regeneration
Serra Clubs continue to be of great assistance to Shalom Center. The new Serra Club of Northeast Houston hosted a presentation on Shalom Center and visited us in January, and a presentation was made to the Serra Club of Galveston in January to update the group on Shalom Center’s progress. Both groups have provided prayerful and financial help to our programs.
Our ability to treat priests and religious whose first language is Spanish has been enhanced with individual and group therapy sessions in Spanish, as well as an English class being added to the schedule. We have three bilingual English/Spanish therapists as well as a bilingual psychiatrist to assist those overcome language barriers to treatment.