Hospitality House

Started in 1983, Hospitality House provides emergency shelter and transitional housing for homeless men. We also provide free meals to residents and the public at 7am, 12pm, and 6pm every day.

Haven of Hope

Our shelter for homeless women and women with children has been operating since 1998. This transitional housing program provides a safe place for women to overcome difficult circumstances and get a new start on life.

Solomon’s Porch

Our drop-in center offers a safe place for teens to gather with adult supervision Monday through Saturday from 4-8 pm. A free dinner is served at 6 pm.

Hello & Welcome

Our Story

Over 30 years ago, Charles Hutchins (Hutch) came to Wenatchee to visit relatives. He befriended a homeless person and found that there were no homeless shelters in the area. So Hutch found an old abandoned hotel in south Wenatchee, signed a 25-year lease on it, and moved into a back room with plans to begin renovating it into a homeless shelter. This was in November and with winter approaching people living by the river, underneath bridges and in old cars heard about Hutch’s hotel and quickly moved in.

This old hotel had little electricity and running water, no working plumbing, windows boarded up, a sagging roof and was only heated by a small wood-burning stove. Water was carried from a gas station down the street, and a portable toilet was placed out front. Due to many housing code issues, the Mission soon ended up in the newspaper. This drew two good friends, Don Lanphere and Dale Peterson, to visit the Mission where they found about a dozen people, including five children, huddled around the wood stove. They decided to help and brought others to transform the crumbling hotel into a 37-bed Mission that housed families on the first floor and homeless men on the second floor.

In the early 1990’s, residents from the original hotel mission and many volunteers from the Wenatchee Valley joined together to build what is now our Hospitality House men’s shelter at 1450 S. Wenatchee Ave.

It is a large two-story building with 80 beds, laundry facilities, a commercial kitchen and a large cafeteria where three free meals a day are served to our residents and the public. Over 15 years ago, the Ministry acquired an older three story house in residential Wenatchee for our women’s shelter, the Haven of Hope. After some remodeling, we ended up with 26 beds for single women and women with children. Most are bunk beds in dormitory style sleeping rooms, plus four small family rooms for mothers with children.

In 2012, we opened Hospitality Heights for homeless families with children. These are four small homes in the 1400 block of south Mission St. The families in this transitional housing program are being mentored by the Serve Wenatchee Valley ministry for us.

The local Solomon’s Porch drop-in teen center ministry merged with Hospitality Ministries in 2013. In a commercial building at 17 S. Mission St. in downtown Wenatchee, we offer a safe place for teens to gather six days a week, Monday through Saturday from 4 pm to 8 pm. We offer youth off the street actives, games, resources, Bible studies and 6pm dinner nightly with adult supervision.

Richard

Every Day Is A Blessing

My name is Richard. I’ve been living at Hospitality House the past 15 months. It’s a blessing for me every day here. This is the longest time that I’ve stayed out of prison. I’ve lived a life of gangs, drugs, crime and spent most of my adult life in prison.

That is until recently, when I found Jesus as Lord and Savior. He’s opened up my eyes and heart to a better way of living. Since welcoming Christ into my life, every day is a blessing for me.

My Lord has changed me in ways I never thought possible. I was young, wild and crazy. I ran away from home at age 7, joined a gang at 9 and by 17-years-old I was in prison for killing someone. My childhood was really bad and had to grow up quick on the streets of LA. I became a heroin addict at age 12 and used cocaine, meth, and PCP as a teenager.

I have done a lot of bad things in my life time that I never thought I could be forgiven for. Today, I am a changed man. I never gave up on God, and He never gave up on me. It’s never too late to change your life. I’m 50 years old now and am the happiest I have ever been. Know that Jesus loves you, and He is there for you.

Kayla

The Haven Is My Home

The Haven is my home. My family is being touched and transformed through the spirit of Jesus, navigating our lives. Hallelujah! Our Director, daily chores, Bible study teachers, volunteers and donations provide hope, nutrition, new skills, self-discipline, interdependence, strength and guidance. We rely on each other to keep our transitional home clean and productive. Coming together for meetings and prayers triumphantly brings the loving atmosphere necessary to transfer God’s glory to us.

Working and raising my kids as a single mom in transitional housing is no easy task. However, my hard work is being rewarded with miracles and blessings God produces through this house. I’m proud of my family, who has endured evil of many sorts and still came through praising Jesus, our Lord and Savior.

When I do find permanent housing in Wenatchee, I will feel dignified on a new level. I will have proved that walking in faith and putting God to work in my life is the best way I can live.