A Southern Baptist church in one of the poorest communities in the United States plans to build 20 tiny homes to help accommodate the needs of recovering drug addicts in their quest toward sobriety.
Crossroads Community Baptist Church in McCreary County, Kentucky, and its pastor, Grant Hasty, are constructing a community of tiny homes that will assist a county that has been hit hard by the ongoing opioid epidemic in the U.S.
WBIR news reports that the project comes as 32 percent of McCreary’s population lives below the poverty line.
“When someone wants help and they don’t have a support system behind them on a regular basis to hold them accountable … that’s when they have issues of relapsing,” Hasty told the television news outlet.
The pastor explained that the church currently has about 13 acres of land on a horse farm, about half of which will be used for the development of the tiny homes. Along with helping the addicts stay clean, the program aims to incorporate a job training element to help them get back on their feet financially.
Program volunteer Vicki Kidd told WBIR that those…
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