We are excited to report that we had three open houses with well over 200 people attending. Two City Council Members welcomed Quiet Waters Outreach to Hillsboro and the Hillsboro Argus ran several articles about our new bed and breakfast. To those of you that were able to attend one of the open houses, we were honored to have you! And for those of you who haven’t had a chance to tour Selah West but would like to see it, please call us to set up a personal tour.
Please know that we truly appreciate your encouragement, generosity, and support in helping Quiet Waters Outreach open Selah West. We have doubled our capacity to serve and thus doubled available respite to hundreds of families who desperately need it. On behalf of all these families, thank you for your kind hearts, generous gifts, and palpable compassion towards people with special needs.
QWO Opened Second B&B on May 18, 2009!
After years of planning & waiting, this May, God opened the doors for QWO to launch a second B&B in Hillsboro, OR! Our new home, called “Selah West” (pronounced say-luh), duplicates the respite services at Martha’s Place, our current B&B in Tigard. Selah West doubles QWO’s capacity to serve individuals with Developmental Disabilities (DD) and their caregiving families, increasing our provision of respite care to over 50,000 hours per year!
Currently, reservations for respite care take only 8 minutes to completely fill up for a six-month period! But QWO has a “Vision of Hope”— a comprehensive 5-Year plan to greatly expand our services and continue bringing hope to the people we serve through our unique and Christ-centered restorative services. Selah West is just the first of many exciting phases that will help alleviate the overwhelming demand for respite care in Oregon. Read more...
Future Martha's Place Gets $16,302 Grant
This week, Providence Health Plan Community Benefits Fund of the Oregon Community Foundation awarded Quiet Waters Outreach $16,302 to open the doors to the long awaited second Bed &Breakfast. Added to other grants and private donors, the totalamount raised for this project is close to $150,000. With a capitalbudget of $500,000, QWO is drawing closer and closer to being able to purchase a home in the Hillsboro Area. In additon to fundraising, a QWO steering committee is working hard tobring the leaders of Hillsboro together to collaborate and make this dream a reality. Specialthanks to the people of Providence Health Plans for partnering with QWO to make our community a better place to live.
Seeking New Treasure Night Homes!
Have you heard about Tuesday's Treasures? Have you attended? Have you volunteered? If not, you are missing out on a greatly loved program. Treasures Nights are for individuals ages 12 and up with a developmental disability. We meet every Tuesday (and the 3rd Thursday) of each month at a variety of different churches around the Portland Metropolitan area. Currently we have eight very successful programs and are serving over 400 "Treasures". However, there is still an ongoing need to reach the unreached. Did you know that approximately one out of every ten families has an individual with a developmental disability, yet only 6% of all churches have any ministry to these individuals and their caregivers? It is a goal of Quiet Waters Outreach to expand this program into Yamhill, Clackamas, and Multnomah County. Do you want to get involved? Do you attend a church that might be open to starting or hearing about the program? You are the eyes and ears for us and we want to collaborate together to insure that everyone hears the precious message of God's unconditional love! For more information please feel free to contact QWO. Thanks for your help!
Argus Article -- Second B&B In Hillsboro
It's official! A second B&B is coming to Hillsboro. This month, QWO launched a campaign to open a second Bed & Breakfast providing respite care right in the heart of Hillsboro. Led by Board Members, Ron Pown and Nona Scot along with Executive Director Steve Ristow, the leaders of various service clubs, organizations, government, and the media, met for a exploratory brainstorming session on how best to involve the entire community around this project. By the end of the night, the group moved forward on adopting this project as a intra-service organization project. It would be the first time all service organizations would unite to get a project off the ground! Gary Stutzman, managing editor for the Hillsboro Argus, attended the meeting and graciously offered to write a series of articles highlighting the project. Last week, he published the first in the series. Read the actual article...
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Future Martha's Place Gets $16,302 Grant
It's official! A second B&B is coming to Hillsboro. This month, QWO launched a campaign to open a second Bed & Breakfast providing respite care right in the heart of Hillsboro. Led by Board Members, Ron Pown and Nona Scot along with Executive Director Steve Ristow, the leaders of various service clubs, organizations, government, and the media, met for a exploratory brainstorming session on how best to involve the entire community around this project. By the end of the night, the group moved forward on adopting this project as a intra-service organization project. It would be the first time all service organizations would unite to get a project off the ground! Gary Stutzman, managing editor for the Hillsboro Argus, attended the meeting and graciously offered to write a series of articles highlighting the project. Last week, he published the first in the series. 
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