The Interfaith Hospitality Network (IHN) is a nationwide effort to fight homelessness. The mission of IHN (Family Promise) is "To provide hospitality to homeless families through accountable interfaith communities".
The Mission of the Greenville Area Interfaith Hospitality Network (GAIHN) is to assist local congregations to share hospitality (in the form of emergency food and lodging) with homeless families, and to help those families achieve self-sufficiency and self-fulfillment. Download the GAIHN Mission Statement here (PDF).
The GAIHN Promotional Video
is now available online! .
Just over 9 minutes in length, the superb video provides a succinct
overview of GAIHN’s ministry of hospitality and features Selena
Moore telling her success story.
The Greenville Area IHN is a coalition of thirty-five religious congregations collectively called GAIHN (Greenville Area Interfaith Hospitality Network). Uniting volunteers and facilities from diverse religious communities and faith traditions, GAIHN provides homeless families with safe, secure shelter while offering emergency assistance (including superb transitional housing), strategies to obtain affordable housing and permanent employment, and appropriate referral and guidance to help reintegrate families into the community as quickly as possible.
Participating host and support congregations are:The GAIHN Day Center and offices are hosted by Pendleton Street Baptist Church.
The congregations and their volunteers are the most critical components of this program. Their involvement and commitment enables more families to be sheltered at a minimal cost with a more encompassing program and broader community support.
With knowledge, interest and experience, volunteers become catalysts and advocates for solutions to the problems leading to and resulting in homelessness.
Volunteers assist in these areas:
- Overnight hosting (does not require 24 hour staff)
- Transportation of beds to each congregation
- Provide furniture, clothes and emergency assistance as needed
- Transportation of children to their home school
- IHN Board of Directors
- Fund-raising
- IHN receives funding from grants, congregations, foundations, corporate support and individuals.
FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT GAIHN
Phone (864) 271-3424
Fax (864) 271-3533
Tony McDade, Executive Director
e-mail: TonyMcDade@cs.com
GAIHN Board Members
GAIHN Overview (rotate pages clockwise 90 degrees)
GAIHN Brochure
GAIHN Bulletin Inserts
Family Promise (National Interfaith Hospitality Network)
"Making GAIHN's in Greenville," stories about GAIHN's innovative transitional housing parntership with various local congregations.
Covenant UMC members and 
Furman University athletes help rehab transitional housing in West Greenville for GAIHN homeless families.
Selena's Story
Corey Watt's Eagle Scout Project
GAIHN is a beneficiary for the world-famous Reedy River Duck Derby, to
be held on Saturday, May 2, 2009 and sponsored by the Evening
Rotary Club. Festivities will be held at the Reedy River Falls Park,
which will bustle with excitement and activity for the whole family!
Log on to Reedy River Duck Derby,
for more info, including a list of sponsors. The GAIHN community is
grateful to the members of the Greenville Evening Rotary Club for their
generosity to GAIHN and commitment to helping Greenville's children and
families thrive.
Our Hospitality Code
Transitional Housing sponsored by Congregations
Among our Greenville-area partners in ministering with homeless families are:
Upstate Homeless Coalition of SC, United Ministries, SHARE Homeless Services, Goodwill Industries.