Our Story.
How faith, lived experience, and a love for Rome, Georgia birthed a ministry of hope for men walking the long road of recovery after detox.
How faith, lived experience, and a love for Rome, Georgia birthed a ministry of hope for men walking the long road of recovery after detox.
TK and Claudia Hamilton are both natives of Rome, Georgia, with deep, lifelong ties to the recovery community in Floyd County. They have walked through real hardship in their own lives. Through the love of Jesus Christ, they overcame, and they chose to spend the rest of their lives sharing that same hope with other men.
Together they founded Brother's Place, a faith-based ministry that offers safe and stable housing, support groups, and community case management for men struggling with addiction, homelessness, and mental-health challenges, and for the families walking alongside them.
TK and Claudia recognized something many in their community saw but few addressed. The underlying issues that contribute to homelessness, trauma, addiction, mental illness, and spiritual brokenness, all require more than temporary fixes. They require the transformative love of Christ and a community committed to walking with men through every stage of recovery.
"At Brother's Place, we believe that the teachings and love of Jesus Christ are the foundation of transformation and renewal. Brother's Place isn't just a place to stay; it's a community where the love of Christ guides everything we do. Through Jesus' example, we offer guidance, compassion, and empowerment to help men rebuild their lives. Join us as we walk this journey of hope, trusting in God's plan for a brighter future."
Claudia Hamilton, Co-Founder
Brother's Place was born out of a simple but powerful conviction. Every man deserves a chance to rebuild his life with dignity, support, and the love of Christ.
In the neighborhoods of Rome, GA, TK and Claudia watched men cycle through homelessness, addiction, and incarceration with nowhere to turn. The existing system offered emergency response and short-term detox, but very little long-term, faith-centered supportive housing for what comes next — the months and years of staying sober and rebuilding a life.
When the doors of the Maple Street home opened, they started with a handful of residents and an abundance of faith. What began as a small act of obedience has grown into a ministry that provides housing, case management, spiritual formation, job training, and a genuine community of brothers walking the road to recovery together.
Key moments in the Brother's Place journey from a calling to a ministry.
TK and Claudia Hamilton answer a long-standing burden for men in Rome who needed more than emergency shelter — a long-term, faith-centered place to land after detox. Plans for a Christ-centered ministry begin.
Brother's Place is formally established as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, creating the legal and ministry foundation for the work to come.
With years of pastoral and nonprofit leadership in the same community, Maloy is hired to build out the ministry and lead day-to-day operations.
Maloy designs the case-management, spiritual-formation, and reintegration program, then helps open the doors at 1709 Maple Street. The first residents move in to three meals a day, daily devotion, and a structured schedule from day one.
Men served. Beds full. Partner churches engaged. The work of walking alongside men in recovery goes on, one brother at a time.
Empowering, equipping and enriching men through the LOVE of Christ.
Guiding Scripture, Nehemiah 9:12
"You led them with a pillar of cloud by day, and with a pillar of fire by night, to illuminate the way they should go."
Read our Faith FoundationWe believe that lasting recovery, the kind that transforms a man's life from the inside out, begins with a relationship with Jesus Christ. Not religion as a rulebook, but faith as a lifeline.
At Brother's Place, Christ is named openly as the source of transformation. Our doors are open to any man willing to engage, regardless of where he is on his faith journey. We do not require belief as a condition of entry. We offer it as a path to healing, with love, patience, and without coercion.
Our experience, both personal and ministerial, has shown us again and again. When men encounter genuine love, the kind that names Christ as its origin, everything changes. That is why we do what we do.