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"After spending almost two months in a hospital this year, Jennifer Adams was not sure what she and her family were going to do. Adams’ husband was having to make multiple trips to the hospital as well as care for their two children. The expense of the trips to the hospital, combined with Adams not working, was becoming increasingly costly for the Bedford family.
“I don’t know what we’d been able to do,” Adams said. “We’d probably end up homeless.”
While Adams was in the hospital, transitional apartments were being built near downtown Bedford. The four apartments were the first project in Trimble County for Good News Homes, a nonprofit organization created by Southern Baptists in Oldham and Trimble counties.
Adams learned of the housing opportunity from the Bedford Baptist Church and applied for the housing opportunity in hopes of not having to live in a homeless shelter in Louisville. She and her family were chosen out of the abundance of applications Good News Homes received.
“It was a bigger need than anybody realized,” said Sheri Caldwell, program manager.
Now, the Adams family along with three other families wait for the sewer system to be connected to the apartment complex so the families will be able to move into their new homes. For now, Adams and her family are staying with a relative in Floyds Knobs, Ind., and Adams takes her two children to Trimble County schools each day for class, a 120-mile round trip, while the Adamses wait for the last piece of the construction to be finished. The family should be able to move in about a month.
Even though the Adams family has not moved in yet, the family had its first party Sunday with the building’s dedication. Good News Homes board members, workers, Oldham-Trimble Baptist Association members and community members stopped by to see how the four, three-bedroom apartments turned out. Read the rest of the Story Here: Madison News
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