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      • Our History
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      • 2021 Year in Review
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      • $10,000 Landlord Match
      • Bring Families Groceries
      • Wish Lists
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Our Faith Partners

The Gift of Hospitality

Family Promise of Western New York was founded 25 years ago by faith communities who offered families experiencing homelessness the gift of hospitality. 


In 1994, Family Promise of WNY began as the "Interfaith Hospitality Network of Greater Buffalo."   We are an affiliate in a national hospitality organization with the mission of helping families experiencing homelessness achieve sustainable independence through a community-based response.  The organization originally developed utilizing a rotational model where faith communities offered meals and overnight accommodations in collaboration with a Day Center that would help with case management during business hours. 


Regionally, the organization came to Western New York when Reverend Daniel Weir, the then Director of the Erie County Commission on Homelessness, arranged for various clergy from Erie County to meet with the national Interfaith Hospitality Network in 1993. Interested clergy and congregational members worked diligently throughout the next several years to create the Interfaith Hospitality Network of Greater Buffalo (IHNGB). A Board of Trustees was formed and IHNGB was incorporated in December of 1994.  The following eleven congregations committed to becoming founding host sites: 

  • Central Presbyterian Church, Buffalo
  • Faith United Methodist Church, Lancaster
  • Harvest House, South Buffalo
  • Kenmore Presbyterian Church
  • Orchard Park Presbyterian Church
  • St. Catherine of Siena Roman Catholic Church, West Seneca
  • St. John Lutheran Church, Williamsville
  • St. Matthias Episcopal Church, East Aurora
  • St. Mary of Sorrows Roman Catholic Church, Buffalo
  • Trinity Old Lutheran Church, Amherst
  • “West Side Cluster” of five United Methodist Churches


Over the years, we've partnered with hundreds of faith communities across Erie County. 

Today, Family Promise of Western New York has grown into a thriving, single-site shelter.  And while our engagement with faith communities has changed, their legacy of support continues to 

keep our program strong.

Here are a few ways your congregation can get involved!

Sponsor A Family

Turn a house into a home when a family moves out of shelter by helping secure new apartment essentials!

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Bring Us A Week Of Groceries

Having a big sale, on-site celebrity, or other event? Be sure to announce it so everybody knows and gets excited about it.

Find out more

Coordinate A Donation Drive

Check out our wish list for items we currently need in shelter or give us a call to coordinate something tailored to your community!

Find out more

Support Us Financially

Take up a collection, integrate us into your tithe or use us as a "charity of choice" at your next benefit!

Find out more

Take On A Project For Us

Got a garden club? Know how to make fleece-tied blankets? Love Meat Raffles? We need you!

Contact Us

Our Partner Congregations

Our program is based on the value of hospitality that is found in every religious tradition and provides the framework which allows volunteers to put their faith into action in order to directly minister to some of the most vulnerable members of our community.


All Saints Lutheran Church

Amherst Community Church

Blessed Trinity RCC

Bread of Life Church

Buffalo Vineyard Church

Christ United Methodist Church

Clarence Church of Christ

Clarence United Methodist Church

Crossroads Lutheran Church

Elim Christian Fellowship

Elma United Methodist Church

Epiphany United Church of Christ

First Presbyterian Church of Buffalo

Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church

Hamburg Unitarian Universalist

Hamburg United Methodist Church

Holy Trinity Lutheran Church

 ISNF Masjid An-Noor

John Newman Mission Community

Life Church Buffalo

Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary RCC

Nativity of our Lord RCC

New Covenant United Church of Christ

New Hope United Methodist Church

North Presbyterian Church

Orchard Park Community Church

Orchard Park Presbyterian Church

Queen of Heaven RCC

Parkside Lutheran Church

Saint Christopher RCC

Saints Columba-Brigid RCC

Saint John’s Lutheran Church in Orchard Park

Saint John Vianney RCC

Saint James United Church of Christ

Saint Joseph University Parish

Saint Mark's Episcopal Church

St. Mary’s RCC

Saint Martin De Porres RCC

Saint Peter and Paul RCC

Saint Paul’s Lutheran Church

St. Stephens-Bethlehem United Church of Christ

Saint Vincent de Paul RCC

Temple Beth Zion

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Orchard Park

Trinity Episcopal Church in Hamburg

Trinity Episcopal Church

United Methodist Church of Hamburg

Unitarian Universalist Church of Amherst

Unitarian Universalist Church of Hamburg

University Presbyterian Church

Village Church

Zion Dominion Global Ministries

Zion Lutheran Church

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