Cold Weather Shelter Status: CLOSED
If the cold weather shelter is going to open to receive guests on a given night, we will post it here shortly after noon and by 1PM.
Guests must sign in between 8PM-10PM at First Baptist Church (1111 Fort Street) on nights that the shelter is open. If no guests have signed in by 10PM, we will close the shelter for the evening.
Cold Weather Shelter
The Ellis County Ministerial Alliance is working with First Baptist Church of Hays and others to provide a cold weather shelter this winter, provided we can get enough volunteers to run it. The shelter would only open when the temperature outside gets cold enough to present severe risk to people and only if people show up during the shelter's opening hours to use it overnight.
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
VOLUNTEER TRAINING
We will have two volunteer training sessions for those who do want to volunteer to stay awake overnight to watch over our shelter's guests. If you plan to volunteer to help at the shelter, please sign up for the training here (if possible, please plan to attend the first training in case we have cold weather early this year).
Click the date you would like to sign up for.
Want to help but unavailable on the training days? Click here