A Word From Our President – Cascades Sonrise

I was about to speak at True Vine Baptist Church in Oakland California that Tuesday evening. As I walked from my hotel to a nearby store, I noticed a fine looking elderly woman. I spoke as I came near and was shocked when she begged for change for a place to stay. She looked like she could be one of the leading ladies in church! Whether one of the ladies in the church where I’d just spoken, my home church, or one of the countless numbers of Ushers, Deaconess’, Choir members, Women’s Guild members or Mothers I had known. I gave her the money she asked for, then demanded to know the whereabouts of her children and family. That began a process of months, which reunited a broken family and got her on a waiting list for Low-Income Senior Housing.

Welcome

May this introductory note serve to guide you into what we can offer you, your organization, the hurting and the homeless.

Experience

Our thirty (30) experience owning and managing affordable housing may help you to understand how our work is performed.

Opportunities

there are amazing opportunities to help. You can help and, we can help you help others.

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May this introductory note serve to guide you into what we can offer you, your organization, the hurting and the homeless.Our thirty (30) experience owning and managing affordable housing may help you to understand how our work is performed. And, hopefully how we may serve you. As a young minister in 1986 when we began, I couldn’t have dreamed that the need would one day become so great. Affordable housing was then, for the few who fell through the cracks. Now, the entire floor is almost gone.

Recently, as we prepared a multi-million dollar renovation of our 81 unit facility in Fontana California, I was surprised to hear the testimony of a lady who sat on our “waiting list”. She had waited for three years before receiving a call via her mobile phone informing her of a vacancy. She was already packed and ready to move in, because she was living in her car! Noticing my surprise she told me of other residents who had experienced the same thing. It underscored for me, how desperate things have become in the streets of America. Many “regular” people are now on the streets. At the end of 2018 there were 552,830 homeless people in America. Our home state of California had 129,972 of them. It’s not a great stretch to realize that the lack of “affordable housing” leaves them only one step before homelessness.

Thankfully, there are amazing opportunities to help. You can help and, we can help you help others. Our staff have added to our thirty years experience, (1) a mastery of the most recent laws and H.U.D. rules. (2) We’ve spent years now connecting with the absolutely essential specialized legal experts. (3) We’ve developed over the past few years relationships with the key funding institutions who specialize in affordable housing, and (4) with the federal government sources. (5) State government sources for the necessary state approvals and state regulatory guidelines are among the multiple nuanced pathways that we’ve invested in learning. (6) Specialized contractors and regulations governing them have also been put in place for expediting new projects.

Our Missions and your Mission have become ONE MISSION.

Cascades Sonrise offers even more ways to help you accomplish your Mission and help others among the hundreds and thousands of helpless people all around you. We are called to go “across the street and across the world”, wherever the hurting are.

In 1992, Chuck Singleton began activist work dealing with slavery in the Sudan. Chuck Singleton established COMPAS (Congress on Modern Pan African Slavery) to combat chattel slavery and other human rights issues throughout the world.

Chuck is the president of a social action organization with the passionate mission of healing hurts and building dreams across the street and across the world. That work has continued through KALEIDOSCOPE and CASCADES SONRISE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION. Chuck Singleton and his team are actively addressing the causes and conditions that perpetuate the commercial sexual exploitation of children. Chuck is collaborating with faith-based organizations nationwide to develop strategies and programs for individuals involved in gang life.

Chuck Singleton has been a keynote speaker for numerous groups, ranging from governmental agencies to colleges and universities throughout the country including, Morehouse, Clark, the University of Texas, the University of Tennessee, the University of Georgia, UCLA, Southern Methodist University (SMU), Georgetown, the University of Illinois, just to name a few. He has been a featured speaker for the Evangelical Press Association, the National Evangelical Association, the National Baptist Convention, the Progressive Baptist Convention, the California Full Gospel Baptist Convention, Rainbow/PUSH events and the Western African Pastors Conference in Senegal, West Africa. He has served as a chaplain for the Los Angeles Dodgers, California Angels and Oakland Raiders and the Christian Entertainers Fellowship.

Chuck Singleton’s national and international preaching and teaching emphasizes the biblically based “Max-Life” message. This is, walking as a triumphant, “Tri-Fit” believer. “Tri-Fit” is walking with Jesus as a spiritually fit, mentally fit and physically fit believer. “Max-Life is about developing all three parts of the ‘Tri-Fit’ being to the ‘Max’… to the glory of God!” proclaims Chuck Singleton.

Chuck Singleton Th.D. completed his undergraduate studies at Southern Illinois University with a combined religion and history major. His graduate studies were completed at Cincinnati Graduate Seminary and Luther Rice Seminary. He served on the Board of Trustees of the prestigious Claremont Graduate School of Theology. Dr. Singleton has served in similar posts at California State Universities and Azusa Pacific University. He serves on the Senior Advisory Council of the Trans- Atlantic Roundtable on Religion and Race (TRRR). A fitness enthusiast, he has run marathons for the past 20 years.