From the Directors

From the Directors

Kent & Mary Alice Martin

Desperate lives need alternatives now. Living in the UK are thousands of broken people who need help today and too few residential places available to offer them the hope of freedom and a future. The problems of homelessness, family breakup, long-term unemployment and substance abuse continue growing as funds to address them shrink.

Betel of Britain’s purpose is to rescue those on the slippery slope towards ruin and despair who want to rebuild their lives but can’t get into overburdened, under-funded state provision.

Betel is a safe, structured environment for making a fresh start in life. Our residents often compare it to an extended family. It’s a place where hurting people feel accepted, where they are enabled to help themselves. It’s a refuge where they can gradually rebuild self-dignity with life’s two building blocks that elude them most: meaningful relationships and meaningful work.

Betel is dedicated to continue offering hope and hospitality free of charge to the neediest men and women of Great Britain–at no additional cost to government social services or families.

-Kent & Mary Alice Martin