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Lydia House
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Lydia House is Open Door Mission's emergency services for single women and families. This six-week programs provides food, shelter, and other basic needs, plus individualized case management that maps out the steps back to independence. Or they may choose to enroll in Open Door Mission's long-term recovery programs and address the issues that caused them to be homeless. Currently, Lydia House provides services for 16 single women and 11 families.

When Lydia House opened in 1990, the primary goal was to provide basic needs for women and children who had no place else to go for help.
Lydia House
Since then, Lydia House has met the needs of thousands of women and children and has provided long-term solutions. Women who are homeless are even more vulnerable than men. Some become homeless because of mental illness or alcohol or drug addiction. Others are fleeing an abusive husband or boyfriend. Still others have been recently released from jail and the court has ordered them to stay at Lydia House. Runaways occasionally come to Lydia House for shelter.
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Lydia House Mural
In Acts 16, the Bible tells us about the very first Lydia House. After many days of traveling, the Apostle Paul and his friends finally reached the city of Philippi.
On the Sabbath they went outside the city gate where they thought there would be a Jewish meeting place for prayer.
They sat down and talked with the women who walked by. One of them was a godly woman named Lydia, who sold expensive purple cloth. She invited Paul and his friends to stay with her at her home.

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While they were at Lydia's house, she gave them things they needed, such as food, shelter and clothing. Together they talked about the Lord and encouraged one another. Lydia opened up her heart and her home because she loved God.

Two thousand years later, our own Lydia House is following this Biblical example of love and grace by providing food, shelter, clothing and life-changing programs for women and children.
Open Door Mission
2828 North 23rd Street East
Omaha, NE 68110

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Open Door Mission is a Gospel Rescue Mission founded in 1954. Each day, Open Door Mission ministries provides 320 men, women, and children with safe shelter beds, serves nearly 1,500 hot nutritious meals, and provides preventive measures to more than 250 families living in poverty. to meet the basic physical needs of the hungry and homeless, the Open Door Mission’s day facility services provide free transportation from the downtown area to Open Door Mission and Lydia House. Open Door Mission offers life-changing programs for those recovering from life-altering addictions and abuse to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty.