History – Cascades Sonrise

About Sonrise Senior Citizens Villa

The Cascades Sonrise Apartments previously known as: Sonrise Senior Citizens Villa was built in 1987 as a senior citizen 80 unit affordable housing community located at 7222 Sierra, Ave in Fontana, CA 92336. The community is located in the 35th Congressional District of California. The organization from its inception has maintained full occupancy along with an extensive waiting list.

Section 202 Supportive Housing for the Elderly

Since this property was built using funding through HUD’s Section 202 Supportive Housing for the Elderly program, residency is restricted to persons who earn 50% of the Area Median Income (AMI) or less. Like other rental assistance programs like Section 8, resident’s rents are based on their income and the tenant contribution is set at 30% of the tenant’s income.

The Loveland Church is one of the benefactors or sponsors of the affordable housing complex. The Loveland Church is a nonprofit which received its tax exemption under the 501-c 3 of the Internal Revenue Tax Code. Dr. Charles E Singleton is senior pastor of Loveland Church and President of Cascades Sonrise Development Corporation. In order to better serve the senior residents with more modern upgrades and improve the building. The Cascades Sonrise Development Corporation undertook the renovation of the building. CSDC completed these renovations via the tax credit process, transforming a three million dollar senior housing villa into a nine million dollar state of the art, solar panel senior affordable housing complex.

Luv Wins A Place for Seniors

Groundbreaking & Renovations

In 2018, the Loveland Church launched the “Luv Wins A Place for Seniors”, sub-committee. The committee came together to assist in raising the necessary funds to start the process to break ground on the renovation of the senior complex. The committee understood the need to develop housing for disadvantaged families, assist children at-risk and help women in domestic violence situations. The Cascades Sonrise Development Corporation team joined forces with investors, other nonprofits, contractors, architects, and city government using the process of California tax credits to finance the project.

Re-Grand Opening

The Luv Wins A Place for Seniors helped raise the necessary funds enabling the Cascades Sonrise development team along with partners and investors to complete the renovations and establish the state of the art senior citizen complex with upgraded flooring, air conditioning, new cabinets and fully insulated windows and doors. As a result of the building being renovated, the committee had a re-grand opening on February 2020. The senior residents were extremely excited to have their units upgraded. The upgrades enhanced the quality of life of the senior residents.

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.