Potential tenants are identified through corrections facilities and existing transitional housing programs, as well as through contacts in the community.

Lazarus Housing negotiates with property owners to lease dwelling units that in turn are sublet to tenants who pay rent and other costs to live in the unit. Lazarus Housing has proved successful in providing affordable housing, developing supportive relationships, and reducing the number of individuals returning to prison. The Lazarus Housing program offers shared housing for adults re-entering the community following incarceration. About the Lehigh Conference of Churches Driven by faith to bring healing, housing, and hope to the Lehigh Valley's most vulnerable. Questions about The Lazarus House? Call Henry Moore at (610) 433-6421. The church’s message in those settings has been not only one of healing and restoration but of resurrection and new life. The church has always ministered to those on the margins. Today, those who are coming out of jail are modern-day lepers. Lepers by religious law and social practice were forced to the margins of society.

Subsequently, the church named Lazarus the patron saint of lepers. It emphasizes God’s continuing concern for the poor and suffering. In Luke’s Gospel, Jesus tells the parable of the rich man and Lazarus. John’s Gospel tells of Jesus’ resurrection of Lazarus-a miracle that demonstrated the glory of God and foreshadowed his own resurrection. Lazarus appears at two places in the Gospels of the New Testament.

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