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

Our goal is to alleviate homelessness by fostering the development of Networks that provide shelter, meals, and assistance for homeless families, and that increase community involvement in direct service and advocacy. Download the GAIHN Mission Statement here (PDF).

The GAIHN Promotional Video is now available online! Log on to the Argyle Multimedia website (www.ArgyleMultiMedia.com), select “Promotional,” and scroll down to access the GAIHN video, or Click here. 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.

Click About GAIHN for more information about GAIHN's services, including links to our host and support congregations and to Family Promise; a list of our Board of Directors; and the GAIHN Brochure and Bulletin Inserts. Check out "Selena's Story" and "Corey Watt's Eagle Scout Project" as well.

Don't miss "Making GAIHN's in Greenville," in the current Family Promise newsletter, "Hospitality."

Want to Help Make Hospitality Happen for local homeless families?
Click About GAIHN for a list of volunteer needs, and go to Donate Now! to support our hospitality ministry financially (using our convenient and secure online giving system).

GAIHN is a beneficiary for the world-famous Reedy River Duck Derby, to be held on Saturday, May 3, 2008 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. Additional sponsors are welcome! Call 271-3424 for more information. 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.

Thanks to the Student Councils, students, faculty and parents at Greenville Senior High School and J.L. Mann Academy, two GAIHN families are thriving in first-class transitional housing. Using funds donated from the 2007 Spirit Week events at both schools, GAIHN has secured two houses for homeless families to occupy temporarily as they seek increased income and permanent housing. Click here for more information and pictures.

Again in 2007 GAIHN (Greenville Area Interfaith Hospitality Network) provided horse-drawn carriage rides through the streets of downtown Greenville during the Christmas/Hanukkah holidays. Nearly $9,000 was raised from the carriage rides, funds that are being used to help to provide emergency assistance for homeless families with children.

In December 2008 our horse-drawn carriages will depart from JB Lacher Jewelers many evenings during the three weeks before Christmas. The fifteen minute ride is through downtown Greenville bedecked in holiday splendor (each carriage seats four adults). Cooper Farm Carriage Service provides our carriages. Reservations may be made online starting on October 1, 2008. Click here or on the Carriage Rides button above for links to our wonderful corporate and media sponsors!

Sponsorship Opportunities:
Five exceptionally generous companies, Steadman Hawkins Clinics of the Carolinas, Yeargin Potter Shackelford Construction, Prudential/C. Dan Joyner Realtors, Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, and the "Duck Wash" on Woodruff Road served as corporate sponsors in 2007, and J.B. Lacher Jewelers, was our host sponsor once again. Corporate week and night sponsorships for 2008 are now available (call 271-3424 for details).