Pastor Trevor offers a blessing for the new home of one of our parishioners.
Celebrating the Successes of 2025!
Through collaborations like The Housing Surge, The Housing Sprint, and Church Street Place, along with partnerships among local agencies, Triune was involved with 135 individuals obtaining housing in 2025! (87 individuals through the Housing Surge team, and 48 individuals who worked with Triune service providers)
Collaborations
The Housing Surge: The Housing Surge team, located here at Triune as part of Greenville Together, assisted 87 unsheltered individuals (50 households) with obtaining permanent housing. The Surge team will also provide case management for these individuals for up to 2 years. Triune service providers are part of the outreach team that, along with the GPD, identified these individuals and referred them to the Surge to be housed.
The Housing Sprint: Greenville Together teamed up with The Greenville Housing Authority and the Greenville Housing Fund to make 40 "Moving to Work" vouchers available for people experiencing homelessness to receive subsidized housing. Agencies including Triune, United Ministries, Miracle Hill, the Salvation Army, United Housing Connections, and others were asked to identify individuals who qualify for these vouchers, and shepherd them through the application and eventual move-in process. The Greenville Housing Fund provided the funding to cover application fees, deposits, and move-in costs for these households. Triune was able to assist 6 individuals with obtaining these vouchers, which provide rent subsidies each month, and all six have successfully moved into their new homes. In total, the Housing Sprint succeeded in housing 40 households, totaling 67 individuals.
Church Street Place: This facility, which United Housing Connections opened in early 2025. offers permanent supportive housing for individuals with disabilities or mental health disorders who have experienced long-term homelessness. Many of the tenants are supported by project based vouchers through the Greenville Housing Authority. The ongoing case management for these tenants is provided by agencies such as Miracle Hill, United Ministries, the VA, the Salvation Army, Greenville Mental Health, and Triune Mercy Center, which provides case management for 7 of the 36 residents of Church Street Place.
The Housing Surge Team
(a part of Greenville Together)
Identified Landlords Willing to Rent to Participants
Assisted with Application Process
Assisted with Move-in
Provide Funds for Rent up to 2 Years
Provide Ongoing Case Management for 2 Years
50 Households (87 people) Moved from Street to Home
Church Street Place (opened by United Housing Connections) consists of 36 units, housing people who experienced long-term homelessness with a disability or mental health disorder. Triune provides ongoing case management for 7 of these residents.
Eat Pizza and be Merry!
Triune Mercy Center, along with the Housing Surge Team (a part of Greenville Together), hosted a holiday pizza party for Housing Surge participants and residents of Church Street Place. The pizza was provided and prepared by our partners from Whetstone Studio.
48 Housed Working with Triune
Our service providers worked alongside our parishioners to help them achieve their goal of securing housing, often working with partners to accomplish this.
In 2025, we were able to help house our parishioners through...
Senior Subsidized Housing
Shared Housing
Permanent Supportive Housing
Moving to Work Vouchers
Greenville Mental Health
Veterans Housing
Ignite Funds
United Housing Connections
Project Based Housing
This mural, commissioned by Greenville Homeless Alliance, depicts individuals who experienced homelessness, and through the assistance of one or more organizations from Coffee Club, were able to secure permanent housing.
Coffee Club
Partnerships Providing Real Impact
Every Monday, a group of professionals representing more than a dozen organizations meets here at Triune to help address the complex issues facing Greenville residents experiencing homelessness. The approach grew out of Miracle Hill, United Ministries, Triune Mercy Center, The Salvation Army, and Greater Greenville Mental Health, and expanded to include organizations such as New Horizon Family Health Services, United Housing Connections, Bon Secours, Pendleton Place, Project Care, Alston Wilkes, the VA, Catholic Charities, Mother Theresa House, and more. Many of the successes experienced by our parishioners this past year grew out of collaborations between partners within this group.
Members of Coffee Club's Outreach Team visit local encampments each week to develop relationships and invite people to come in for services.
A group of local congregations came together to form the HoSEA Program in 2024. This group, which includes Fourth Presbyterian, First Baptist Greenville, St. Michael Lutheran, and Christ Church Episcopal, decided to pool their resources in order to make a greater impact in our community, specifically to prevent homelessness by assisting residents avoid eviction. This program is meant for individuals experiencing a temporary, unforeseen event that is preventing them for paying their rent, which could result in eviction. The churches provide the funding and make final determinations, while a service provider from Triune, and one from United Ministries, assist by meeting applicants in person to review their situation and help with recommendations.
The Triune/United Ministries service providers assist by meeting with applicants to
review documentation
discusses situation
help determine plan moving forward
if needed, provide additional referrals
In 2025, the HoSEA Program helped
62 Families avoid homelessness
by providing a total of $82,000 in rent assistance
A Surge of Stories
A Coat of Many Colors - Partnering to House the Unhoused
by Trevor Scott Barton
“…and he had made him a coat of many colors.” (Genesis 37:3)
One of my favorite stories in the Bible is the story about Joseph and his coat of many colors.
I love the song by Dolly Parton, too.
At Triune Mercy Center, we are a coat of many colors. The TMC social workers and case managers, Housing Surge team, Coffee Club, Miracle Hill, Salvation Army, United Housing Connection, United Ministries, Pendleton Place, Greenville Mental Health, and VA work together as partners walking alongside unhoused people to help them find housing. Each one of us is a beautifully colored patch, and when the patches are sewn together, they make a patchwork coat of many colors that keeps people safe and warm. It helps them get housed.
You’ve seen the data of how many people have received housing with the help of TMC and its partners.
Listen to these stories that put a face and a heart on those numbers. READ MORE
