Moorhead Community and Economic Development Department

Box 779

Moorhead, MN 56560

To Whom It May Concern:

As members of the Fargo-Moorhead faith community who work with and support Churches United for the Homeless, we urge you to approve the proposed amendment to Moorhead’s Community Development Block Grant, which would enable Churches United to purchase the property at 1901 First Avenue North (formerly Plunkett’s Furniture) in order to relocate the homeless shelter now housed at 203 Sixth Street South.

Given that the present facility is both too small and too run down to meet the needs of its staff and the people it serves, Churches United can either expand and repair its current church building or move. Since architects have estimated the cost of renovating the Plunkett building to be about $1 million less than that of improving the old church, the choice seems obvious.

Churches United for the Homeless provides assistance to some of the neediest and most vulnerable among us. If the measure of a community’s stature is in how it cares for those very people, we invite the City of Moorhead to demonstrate its greatness by allowing compassion to take precedence over commercialism.

Please act favorably on behalf of Churches United for the Homeless and expedite all matters involving the relocation of its shelter.

Yours in the Light,

George Kegode, Presiding Clerk

Red River Friends Monthly Meeting