Treutlen House Residential Facility for Children and Youth

Treutlen House at New Ebenezer, 2882 Ebenezer Road, Rincon, Georgia 31326

OUR VISION:
Through Christian nurture, education, love, counsel, and prayer, the Treutlen House programs will lead children, teens and families in crisis to a wholeness in spirit, mind, and body, so that they may be more productive to themselves, their family, their community and their world.

The Treutlen House programs are designed to provide support and guidance to the people who need it most...Our children and their families. The programs of Treutlen House will directly address issues of abuse, neglect, abandonment and other family problems.

Children from ages 6 to 17 will be welcomed. Any child placed in our care will be able to function within the scope and support offered by the local educational system. Tutoring and special assistance with homework and learning issues will be available through the youth home. We will connect our children and their families with local counseling professions through the Treutlen House Family Resource Center.

Initially, the program's home will serve 10 children with our long-range vision to extend to 100 girls and boys.

The Treutlen House at New Ebenezer is a community-based, ecumenical ministry for children and families who are dealing with personal crisis and are seeking assistance to improve their current situation. Treutlen House will provide a professionally administered continuum of preventive and therapeutic services to children and their families. These services will include family preservation, alternative family placement, or independent living. The Treutlen House is organized as a non-profit entity to be sustained by revenues from its own operation. Family Resource Center is already helping our community. Here Lutheran Ministries of Georgia provide their highly successful and non-confrontational A+ Parenting Program to children and families. Morningstar Baptist Treatment Services provides in home assistance to help preserve families and allow a child to remain in the home.

The residential programs provided by Treutlen House at New Ebenezer will also be administered by Morningstar. As one of Georgia's premier family services programs, Morningstar provides similar quality services to children in Brunswick, Gainesville, Cartersville, and LaGrange. Their team of professionals will staff both the residential care home and the Family Resource Center.

Effingham County's first settlers, the Salzburgers, who came to America as Lutheran immigrants seeking religious freedom, inspired the Treutlen House at New Ebenezer. They formed a safe community in 1734 calling it Ebenezer, meaning "rock of help". Here an orphanage was built which they recognized as essential to the development of their community. This orphanage is recognized as the first orphanage to be organized in America.

The original orphanage at Ebenezer provided guidance and a safe haven to a young man named John Adam Treutlen and his mother who were fleeing an abusive step-father. This young man later became the first elected Governor of the state of Georgia. The Treutlen House Project is named in his honor. Here future generations will benefit from the programs this safe dwelling and Family Resource Center provide.

There are so many ways your talents can benefit a project of this magnitude. The Treutlen House exists only on donations, so any support you can offer is greatly welcomed. Only your time and donations can make this project a reality. Please call us at 912-754-9797 to find out how invaluable your support can be. The Treutlen House is a duly organized non-profit charitable corporation in the state of Georgia, and all contributions are tax-deductible.

If you would like to help make this project a reality and would like to make a donation, please visit our "Make a Contribution" section, where you can print out a form which is used in the donation process.

We have also put together a "Wish List" of necessary items we need. Please visit our "Wish List" page and see if there is something you can donate to us.

For more information about the area where the Treutlen House is located, please visit "Effingham Today", the Web site of Effingham County, Georgia.

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DEDICATION & RIBBON CUTTING

On August 26, hundreds of people gathered to celebrate the completion of Treutlen House , named for Georgia's first constitutional governor, John Adam Treutlen. Gov. Roy Barnes, speaking to those present, said, "The cottages you are building will be beacons of hope in the lives of Georgia's abused and abandoned children." Other cottages are projected for future construction.

Those in the picture, from left to right are The Reverend Barry W. Kerr (President and CEO, Morningstar Baptist Treatment Services, Inc.), Sen. Jack Hill, Mr. Jerry Smith (Chair, Treutlen House Board of Directors), Mr.and Mrs. Mac Nease* , U.S. Representative. Jack Kingston, Gov. and Mrs. Roy Barnes, Rep. Ann Purcell, and Mr. Richard Kessler*.

(* denotes Major Donors)

Treutlen House
131 Old Augusta Road Central
Rincon, GA 31326
Phone: (912) 754-9797
Fax: (912) 754-1416
E-mail: info@treutlenhouse.com

Susan Gattman, Director

Treutlen House is managed by Morningstar Baptist Treatment
Services, Inc.

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