Who We Are

Nest Community Shelter, formerly Interfaith Community PADS, was initially named Interfaith Community Men’s Shelter, founded in 2002 by two women who were concerned about the homeless men during the cold winter months. They organized churches within the community to share in the responsibility of caring for these men who had no place to go or food to eat.

It started off small but the numbers grew over the years from two men per night to almost 40 men.

Over the years, Nest Community Shelter was housed in numerous churches and saw over a hundred volunteers per season assist in meeting the needs of the homeless community. Compassionate people like Ed Marrion, former director of the men’s shelter, and Harrison Holtkamp, current executive director of Nest Community Shelter, are leading the charge and growing the organization into what it is today.

Under Harrison Holtkamp’s leadership, Nest is now a 501(c)(3) organization, which makes us an official charity and allows us to acquire grants and receive monetary and goods donations. Also under Harrison’s direction we have now established a homeless women’s program, which was desperately needed.