Another great friday together! Its always so refreshing to see and hear about everyones week on a friday evening. So recap from our prayer circle:

Donald - praise that his brother has slowed down on his drinking and he wants us all to help him continue to pray that his brother will quite drinking all together. [...]

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I get asked this questions quite often. Worse yet, I hear people asking the homeless “so why don’t you just move into a shelter”.
I have no more right to suggest that they move off of the street than one might have to ask me why I don’t live in a bigger house! The question is [...]

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Ok so with the transition of the website I have a lot of prayer requests that need to be added, thus these and more….cause when I say more….I really mean more! (We are going all the way back to before the holidays guys)!

Garrett - his brother is diabetic and praise that his brother (Jacob) is [...]

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I meet many homeless men and women who are searching for lost loved ones. One guy hasn’t seen his family in years and only has a name to search with. Another has an old address that the family once lived at, but has since moved from.
How do you search for a missing person?
There are a [...]

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A few weeks ago I received an email from David Timoth (the Soup man). A group of women wanted to come downtown and pass out blankets that they had made themselves.We have been passing out blankets for years, but this time was different. These ladies were so full of joy and it brought such a [...]

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Last Friday night I met a man who hasn’t had any contact with his Family since 1983. As he told me this he started to cry.
He shared a story of recently traveling by bus to the last know address of his sister. He walked for miles to the neighborhood only to find from [...]

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How can a few bad decisions lead to homelessness?
Drew became homeless about 15 years ago. It all started when he started drinking and using drugs in his early twenties.
How many bad decisions result in homelessness? All it takes is one. Many suggest that we are all just a few bad decisions away from being homeless. [...]

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