by Michelle Ventress on March 20, 2009
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Rancho Cordova has long been heavily influenced by military service. As many family members and friends of vets and active duty soldiers know, the veterans who come home are rarely the men and women who originally left. Often times, this can lead to a troubled life shadowed by addiction, mental illness, and homelessness. But this doesn’t have to be the case, and those of Point Man International Ministries are intervening and rehabilitating vets who need help adjusting after they’re home.
The Point Man International website says the organization began when “Seattle Police Officer and Vietnam Veteran Bill Landreth noticed he was arresting the same people each night, he discovered most were Vietnam vets like himself that just never seemed to have quite made it home.” Landreth began meeting these vets regularly in coffee shops and learned their stories. Point Man Ministries was created out of the fellowship these meetings allowed, and soon became a staple of the Seattle area.
The local Point Man Ministry Outpost is led by Thomas Potts. Potts bravely served our country over seas from December, 1967 through June, 1969. He became involved in Point Man Ministries in 2005 as he saw the need for intervention for our veterans steadily growing. Some of the veterans Potts works with he only counsels through one telephone call. Often times, they just need to know they aren’t alone. Others have gone on to become fully functioning members of society from lives of homelessness and addiction due to the encouragement and services Potts was able help provide.
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Local Vets Can Find Hope in Pointman Ministries
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