NEW YORK: The executive director of Home for Good resigned, the Columbus umbrella agency charged with fighting the city’s homeless problem has moved to put a long time community leader in that role. Ron King, the retired chief executive officer of the Pastoral Institute, will be the interim executive director of Home for Good it was announced at a meeting of agencies that work with the homeless.
Christie Bevis, who has been in the job since the organization was established three and a half years ago, resigned to take a similar job in Birmingham, Ala. King will start work on Wednesday and work with Bevis until she leaves at the end of the month.“It is going to take two or three months to find the right person, and we need a strong, recognized leader that has the passion for this kind of work,” said United Way of the Chattahoochee Valley President Scott Ferguson, who is leading the Home for Good steering committee.
Home for Good has started the advertising process to find a permanent executive director.Home for Good grew out of a mayor’s task force that built a 10-year plan to eliminate homelessness in the community. It was hatched under the umbrella of the United Way of the Chattahoochee Valley. Bevis reported directly to Ferguson.King left the Pastoral Institute in December and has been volunteering at Home for Good for several years.
King spent 26 years at the helm of the Pastoral Institute, a faith-based Columbus counseling and business resource center. He is an ordained Baptist minister and a member of First Baptist Church, where he has served as a deacon and Sunday school teacher. He is an adjunct professor in the graduate Servant Leadership Program at Columbus State University. He is the past chairman of the Greater Columbus Chamber of Commerce and the Columbus Housing Initiative.
