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SSI Cares Benefits

The SSI Cares Team is a group of individuals meeting to help raise the spiritual temperature within SSI, help meet needs within SSI, and actively promotes the awareness and involvement in all of the employee benefits. No requirements to participate, care and coverage always provided.

For more information, contact:

Aden Wheeler, [email protected]
Karen Brown, [email protected]
Jake Smith, [email protected]
William Blackburn, [email protected]
Paul Robinson, [email protected]

If you have any questions or need additional information please contact Jim Meeks, Program Director, SSI Cares, at 901.302.4003, [email protected].

SSI is delighted to offer Marketplace Chaplains throughout the organization because all of us can benefit from having a friendship with someone who can be trusted, and whom we can share our struggles with and help us navigate life from a Christ-centered perspective.  Your current Chaplain Team Members are:

Tony Tate, 901-359-2131, [email protected]
D. Lyn McWhorter, 901-201-8744, [email protected]
Terry Buford, 901-672-5508, [email protected]

If you have any questions or need additional information please contact Jim Meeks, Program Director, SSI Cares, at 901.302.4003, [email protected].

A free event for you and your wife/husband, soon to be wife/husband, or significant other, to enjoy a weekend together to learn about what it takes for couples to have a strong and vibrant relationship that lasts a lifetime. Also, all of the Weekend to Remember events—hotel, registration fee, mileage OR gas receipts, plus spending money--are fully paid for by SSI and all you and your spouse or significant other need to do is find an event within 8-9 hours driving distance of your home and sign-up!  Or, if you’re willing to pay for the airfare and rental car you can fly on your dime to anywhere in the US.  All events always start on a Friday evening and end around lunch-time on Sunday.

To sign-up get supervisor approval, then go to https://www.familylife.com/weekend-to-remember/   and choose your location.  Send an email to Hannah Knight, at [email protected] requesting that weekend.  You’re done.  For more information, please reach out to Jim Meeks, Program Director, SSI Cares at [email protected]

Simply go to https://www.ramseysolutions.com/  Find and pay for the product that best suits your needs.  Email Hannah Knight at [email protected] for the correct Kingdom Company expense code.  Submit the expense on your expense report.  If you have any questions or need additional information please contact Jim Meeks, Program Director, SSI Cares at 901.302.4003.

Co.Tribute is a giving platform DCI Cares uses to encourage all employees to donate time and money to charity and ministry organizations in their local area.  DCI empowers you with $25 each month, that does not come out of your paycheck, to give to the approved organization of your choice while also adding money to your account if you volunteer your time and/or give personally to support local organizations.  This is an amazing opportunity for all of us to give back to the causes that mean the most to us individually and that we believe are making a genuine difference locally, and possibly, throughout the world.  If you would like to add organizations or you're having issues with your account please reach out to Hannah Knight, at [email protected].  If you'd like more information about CoTribute please contact Jim Meeks, at [email protected]

The SSI Community Care Program exists to help support local Christian and charitable organizations that help the underserved in our local communities.  SSI employees and their families are strongly encouraged to find and support various organizations of their own choosing to support with their time, resources, and money.

For more information about the Grant process or for a Grant application, please reach out to the SSI Team within your Branch.

For more information about the Grant Giving process or for a Grant Application, please reach out to a SSI Cares Team member or email Jim Meeks, Program Director, SSI Cares at [email protected] 

Sometimes life can simply be overwhelming.  Having a trained, Christ-centered professional to speak with about all of life’s ups and downs can be a major turning point for some.  All of us need counseling and professional guidance from time to time—whether it’s due to marital stress, every form of addiction, depression, financial troubles, etc.–being able to understand and deal with whatever it is that has us ‘stuck in a rut’ can be life-changing.  Depending on the situation, SSI Cares will pay for a certain number of the counseling sessions.

If you have any questions or need additional information please contact Jim Meeks, Program Director, SSI Cares, at 901.302.4003, [email protected].

Mark Loden has been helping people learn the important task of budgeting their money for almost 30 years, but most importantly, he gives you a proven system that works no matter how much money you make annually.  The initial eight sessions of Mark’s Budgeting system, whether you meet by phone or through a zoom or google meeting, are provided to you for free.

For more information, contact Mark Loden at 901.624.0052, [email protected].

An Alpha class is a ‘safe space’ to ask questions about life, the Christian faith, and much more.  Alpha classes encourage anyone over 18 to attend and for everyone, regardless of their viewpoint, be offered a safe environment to express how they feel and what they think about each week’s topic.

If you have any questions or need additional information please contact Jim Meeks, Program Director, SSI Cares, at 901.302.4003, [email protected].

RightNow Media @ Work is like the Netflix of solid, Christian video! RightNow Media is a free resource you and all who live in your immediate household can use on all of your devices to access over 15,000 different God-centered resources. Also, RightNow Media has an excellent video on almost every subject imaginable, from marriage to money to leadership, and, one for almost every age-range.

To obtain an account, please text, “SSI to 49775” then click the registration link to set-up your account. or paste this link in your browser (https://www.rightnowmediaatwork.org/Account/Invite/SSI)

If you have any questions or need additional information please contact Jim Meeks, Program Director, SSI Cares, at 901.302.4003, [email protected].

This outstanding benefit is meant to help off-set the cost of Trade School or College, and can be used at any accredited school for those SSI employees with student’s who are in their second year of pursuing continuing education after High School and meet the academic requirements.  To be eligible, SSI employees must be full-time and must have completed at least 90-days of continuous employment. $2,000, $3,500 and $6,000 scholarships are available.

If you have any questions or need additional information please contact Jim Meeks, Program Director, SSI Cares, at 901.302.4003, [email protected].

Ready to Wed is a DVD series meant to help prepare engaged couples for a strong, solid marriage together that is built on biblical principles and wisdom.  This tool will be a powerful, yet simple study to help all marriages get off on the right foot spiritually, emotionally, physically, and relationally in order to thrive in the years to come!  In some areas, a mentor-couple can be assigned to help assist and support the newly married couple in the first few years of married life.  Digging through this curriculum as a couple will help eliminate many of the surprises in a relationship that often can create tension, such as how will the two of you handle money?  How will you handle conflict?  Will you plan to have children and if so, how will you raise them and discipline them?

If you have any questions or need additional information please contact Jim Meeks, Program Director, SSI Cares, at 901.302.4003, [email protected].

JH Outback is a non-profit ministry that was founded as JH Ranch in California nearly 40 years ago.  The JH Outback Adventures Program is designed to get family members away from the distractions of everyday life and into the "outback" (or undistracted environment) to focus on the relationships in life that matter the most: 1) their relationship with God, and 2) their relationship with their family. The following family combinations are eligible to attend: Husband and Wife, and Parent and Child (including Father/Son, Father/Daughter, Mother/Son, and Mother/Daughter) relationships, and there is a separate college age event.  Children must have reached their 13th birthday in order to attend. Over the course of a 48-hour weekend (Friday afternoon to Sunday afternoon), you will be able to invest invaluable one-on-one time with a family member.  To register, visit www.jhoutback.com , and register for the appropriate event. When you get to the payment section, enter “BillSSICares”. Spouses of SSI employees may attend with their child for free as well. Also, many of the locations allow for engaged couples to attend as well.

If you have any questions or need additional information please contact Jim Meeks, Program Director, SSI Cares, at 901.302.4003, [email protected].

Every couple on the planet knows that having a great relationship with someone of the opposite sex takes work, patience, and a lot of time and even the best relationships experience strife and conflict from time to time. Unfortunately, instead of working through the issue(s) some relationships can end up in a bad spot, where two people may seem to just be surviving together instead of thriving with one another. No matter what the situation, when marital conflict reaches crisis mode and one party is considering ending the relationship, both parties need to know there is always hope available for healing the wounds and for a New Beginning. Step one is to call Cheryl Beasley, at Hope Restored at 1-417-335-5882, and tell her you are a SSI employee.

The struggle with pornography is a universal struggle and its cancerous effects can easily consume and destroy anyone of any age, background or education.  Pornography, it’s not just a word or a simple problem that fixes itself over time.  The temptation for those in this battle, and it is a real battle, is something they face every moment of every day.  With each passing day, more and more tempting and lustful images of every kind are constantly flashing before our eyes in relentless fashion.  The struggle is real, and the shame and guilt felt by the porn addict after ‘acting-out’ behavior is done is even more real.  Honest pornography addicts will tell you that their ‘drug of choice’ is every bit as addictive and destructive as heroin or meth.  Also, the desensitization of the brain from exposure to unhealthy images is incalculable.  However, there is hope and healing that can be found, giving freedom from this addiction that not only destroys individuals, but also tears families apart.  The Freedom Fight is a FREE resource to help those battling this addiction to get the help they need right away.

To learn more, go to www.thefreedomfight.org  And, just so you know your privacy is a priority, the information obtained by The Freedom Fight is strictly confidential and cannot (by HIPPA law) be shared with anyone—inside or outside of their organization.

Need more guidance on where to start?  Click the link below for a great, confidential first step toward finding freedom.  www.thefreedomfight.org/30-day-challenge-sign-up/

If you have any questions or need additional information please contact Jim Meeks, Program Director, SSI Cares, at 901.302.4003, [email protected].