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1988
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Local pastors met to pray for an answer to meet
the needs of the inner city in Des Moines and
the ministry was birthed.
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1990
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Good Samaritan Urban Ministries’ Board of
Directors appointed Andrew Bales as Executive
Director to launch the ministry. Eleven churches
came together in November 1990 to raise resources
to open the first housing facility.
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1991
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The first multi-family housing complex was purchased:
1354 8th Street, and opened six weeks later. Five
families moved in—5 mothers and 18 children.
The complex provides 6 two-bedroom apartments.
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1992
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Three additional multi-family housing complexes
were purchased, 812 Forest providing six large
three-bedroom apartments, 1353 9th Street which
provides eight one-bedroom apartments, and 6th
& Hickman, a seven building 48-unit apartment
complex.
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1993
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Twenty-one single-family homes were acquired
and renovated for low-income families. A four-plex
apartment complex located in West Des Moines was
donated to the ministry.
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1994
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Arlington Heights Apartments were acquired, providing
36 units of low-income housing.
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1999
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Good Samaritan launches additional youth ministry
programs—Whiz Kids tutoring and Hope for
Youth mentoring—reaching out to at-risk kids
in the inner-city community.
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2000
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Denise Aikoriegie was appointed Executive Director.
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2001
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The ministry divested of the 21 single-family
units leaving 104 multi-family units for ministry
purposes. The Development Corporation was minimized
and the Ministry and Development Boards were merged.
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2002
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The 4-plex apartment unit was sold. Seven acres
of land with six buildings were acquired to launch
a full-service youth ministry and to provide a
teaching and worship center for the ministry.
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2004
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In an effort to focus on our core vision of ministering
to needy women, youth and children, the ministry
sold its low-income housing projects at 6th &
Hickman and Arlington Heights to private owners.
This move frees the ministry to concentrate on
Christian-based programs for families and youth
at our transitional housing property—the
9th Street Campus—and
the Youth Campus.
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