Bradley, right, and Shannon Taylor talk Thursday at Family Promise as Shannon holds grandson Aiden Burnham. The couple is being provided housing through the Family Promise program.Shannon and Bradley Taylor moved from Ohio to Chattanooga to be near his mother, who needed surgery, and other family members in Tennessee and Atlanta. The couple and their 1-year-old grandson slept in a car and then at the Chattanooga Rescue Mission for five days before getting into Family Promise of Chattanooga.
Weeks later, while at Family Promise, Bradley Taylor became the first recipient of the Mission Accomplished: Stable Housing M.A.S.H. grant through Volunteer Behavioral Health. The couple expect to move into their new three-bedroom, two-bath home in Brainerd this month.
Taylor, a U.S. Air Force veteran whose housing situation has been unstable, was so excited that he cried.
“This is incredible,” he said. “I anticipated that God would work something out before Christmas.”
The couple expects to move into the home Dec. 21. If that happens, Taylor’s 5-year-old daughter will come to live with them on Christmas Day.