The National Weather Service has issued a Heat Advisory for parts of the Metroplex through Friday evening. The heat advisory…
More than 800 people have stayed at the shelter set up at Fair Park on the coldest nights of the…
Walker said his organization typically saw about 30 newly homeless people each week before the pandemic. “We saw 95 last…
By the time she arrived, OurCalling was making do with donations from now-closed restaurants. The organization’s founder, Wayne Walker, said…
DALLAS – With another blast of cold weather blanketing North Texas Saturday night, several agencies and organizations are continuing to…
In today’s Veritex Community Bank “Good Deeds” Spotlight, we’re featuring a non-profit who helps transform lives through the power of…
Police are searching for the person who fatally shot a transgender woman at a homeless encampment in Dallas Saturday night.…
The Dallas-based nonprofit Our Calling faced hardship recently that’s all too familiar in Texas: Pipes bursting that leads to flooding.…
Wayne Walker is one of those people who always gets waylaid by doing favors for strangers. The city of Dallas…
The nonprofit “OurCalling” will be providing warm shelter during dangerously cold weather. They are expecting more than 150 people each…
Wayne Walker is a pastor and CEO of OurCalling, a faith-based organization in Dallas, Texas which offers outreach and resources…
“It would be easy to show up, wear plastic gloves and dish out food on the streets,” said Wayne Walker,…
As a minister and founder of the local nonprofit OurCalling, Wayne Walker used to haul supplies to homeless encampments around…
For months, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and the Austin City Council have sparred over a city ordinance that allows homeless…
Wayne Walker, a pastor and the CEO of OurCalling, said that more than 800 people are sheltered at the Kay…
DALLAS — In today’s Veritex Community Bank Good Deeds Spotlight, we’re featuring a non-profit who helps transform lives through the…
Walker said his organization is helping staff the shelter, working 16-hour days and staying at a downtown hotel near the…
Groups that work with the homeless in Dallas are working together to make sure people have a place to stay…
OurCalling CEO praises the cooperation demonstrated by North Texas homeless agencies to stand up an inclement weather shelter at Fair…
OurCalling expected the hotels to be over capacity by Sunday, so they kept their doors open. “There’s no other alternative…
Residents of The Bridge were relocated to The Stewpot, Saturday night. OurCalling, a daytime outreach group, housed those evacuated from…
While he sets the record straight about New York, he takes the opportunity to also advocate for homeless people here…
Dallas has the largest homeless population in Texas, and advocates for people experiencing homelessness say too little funding and focus…
“When you’ve lost your house, and you’ve lost a place to sleep. One of the biggest places you’ll feel it…
It was the first night this year he slept indoors. Founder and CEO of OurCalling Pastor Wayne Walker said homelessness…
The City of Dallas, OurCalling and other partners opened an inclement-weather shelter at Fair Park to accommodate those experiencing homelessness.…
And, they’re also in direct communication with the homeless community. Walker says a lot of people don’t realize most homeless…
Wayne Walker is a dissident. The soft-spoken CEO and pastor of OurCalling isn’t leading marches or shouting into a bullhorn…
Dallas-area organizations Austin Street Center, OurCalling, The Stewpot, Union Gospel Mission, and Oak Lawn United Methodist Church are reportedly putting…
Rick Schrage has been homeless in Dallas for five years. He slept outside Saturday night. “I’m actually getting optimistic that…
Ed Johnson, III, gives a look into what the annual Thanksgiving dinner for homeless individuals at Our Calling looks like…
Networked flat screen monitors installed in the ministry’s cafe keep the men, women and children who use the ministry’s outreach…
A non-profit is building one of the largest tiny house communities for people experiencing homelessness in North Texas.
Wayne Walker felt tired but at peace as he gripped the hand of the 69-year-old man resting in a hospice…
Many of us will sit down with family and friends on Thursday to share a Thanksgiving meal. On Wednesday, that…
OurCalling, the faith-based nonprofit that serves the unsheltered homeless in Dallas County, is doing everything possible to make the holiday…
A welcoming center for homeless women is opening in Dallas this week as the need increases during the pandemic. Wayne…
OurCalling CEO and Founder Wayne Walker join us with more on its Beat The Heat Campaign and how you can…
Real estate and construction industries helped to fund and build the center, providing everything from private showers, laundry, and counseling,…
Dallas’ homeless population has grown 500% in the last six years, according to OurCalling. OurCalling, a daytime homeless outreach center,…
In today’s Our Neighbor report, a man who goes where ever he needs to go, to find the homeless, and…
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News ) – The Our Calling shelter has joined forces with the Austin Street Center in downtown Dallas…
We collaborate with a local service provider called OurCalling, a faith organization that’s a real leader addressing homelessness in Dallas.…
DALLAS – The extreme heat is putting the most vulnerable people in North Texas in danger. A Dallas shelter is…
DALLAS – Service organizations in north Texas are stepping up their efforts due to the dangerous heat. “Every day it’s…
North Texans who are vulnerable to extreme weather will be welcomed in warming centers this week.
Nonprofits in North Texas are working together to try to reach homeless during a stretch of early-summer triple digit heat.
Nonprofits in North Texas are working together to try to reach homeless during a stretch of early-summer triple digit heat.…
“We are not a shelter but we’ve opened our doors for folks to stay here as long as the city…
OurCalling made an app that lists all nearby shelters. It also allows shelters to communicate with each other so they…
The NHL has rescheduled Saturday’s game between the Dallas Stars and Tampa Bay Lightning due an ongoing power crisis in…
About 10,000 people who are homeless in Dallas could be looking for emergency shelter Saturday night. In freezing weather, getting…
A new, non-profit homeless shelter just south of downtown Dallas, OurCalling, is offering shower facilities, laundry service and spiritual resources…
Dallas is managing a global pandemic. And now a natural disaster crisis. As temperatures plummeted to dangerous levels for residents…
“I believe in what Our Calling does,” he said. “The people who are disregarded are the first people they help.…
Celebrities Matthew McConaughey, Jenna Bush Hager and more are sending support to those in Texas affected by the winter storm.…
Amid the impending arrival of the season’s coldest temperatures, two Dallas organizations dedicated to helping the homeless, Our Calling and…
As North Texas temperatures reach record highs, the nonprofit Our Calling is extending its hours to help provide relief for…
“Coming even earlier than we anticipated is rough on us,” said Patrick Palmer with OurCalling. “We haven’t done coat drives.…
“It’s been great to see the community come together for the greater good,” says OurCalling Pastor and CEO Wayne Walker.…
Unprecedented winter storms have blanketed Texas, causing bitter cold temperatures and widespread power outages throughout much of the state. President…
The power is slowly coming back on in Texas on Friday, but the catastrophic effects of the state’s worst winter…
An unprecedented winter storm and unprepared electrical grid has left millions of Texans without reliable power and water and haskilled…
A brutal winter storm has battered large parts of the Central and Southern United States, forcing millions of people to…
Temperatures in North Texas remain dangerously low, and thousands of individuals, families, children, and pets without shelter are in dire…
Millions of Texans are without power, heat and essential services during a winter storm that has led to freezing temperatures…
How this Dallas nonprofit rose to the challenge of housing 700 people amid the historic winter storm
Pierre Scott walked to downtown Dallas from South Dallas ahead of the winter storm. Scott, 59, paused each time after…
Today our technology is being featured on NBC! For years now we have been building some technology to help us build…
“We had vans driving to CitySquare, The Stewpot, everybody driving vans around, picking up homeless folks, dropping them off at…
Walker says 10,000 homeless people are staying in Dallas County, but the county only has 2,000 beds. He says OurCalling is…
Other groups like OurCalling in Downtown Dallas said their food supply is dwindling. Most of what they receive is excess…
Texas has been experiencing higher than normal temperatures since June, and the current 10-day forecast calls for Dallas temperatures to…
In 2018, when Dallas pastor Wayne Walker got a land-use violation ticket from the city for keeping the doors of…
“One of the things we’ve noticed is not only more people showing up at our door but more cars are…
Patrick Palmer, director of development for OurCalling, a nonprofit that serves the homeless, said he understands the concerns because he…
ERCOT is appealing with Texans to conserve energy during peak hours Monday, projecting a combination of extreme heat and low…
Some people in North Texas do still have power and if you do, local nonprofits and organizations are asking for…
More than 4,000 people experience homelessness in Dallas County and our next guest knew it was his mission, or should…
The Texas heat is expected to top 100 degrees this weekend. That’s a particular concern for a homeless population of…
Across town at Our Calling, a faith-based homeless outreach center, it’s evident it is the season of giving. A Plano…
OurCalling approached GlobalReach through its IT provider Kenetic. The resulting free Wi-Fi service was installed in May 2018, allowing OurCalling…
Whether you are a natural giver — one of those noble souls who prefers presenting to receiving gifts — or…
OurCalling Ministry uses cell phone alerts and bed availability software to help find shelters for the homeless. But the faith-based…
In addition to President Biden declaring a state of emergency in Texas and vowing to send aid following deadly winter…
With dangerous temperatures forecasted tonight & Tuesday, Director of Development Patrick Palmer said “tonight we will be sending out an…
DALLAS – Dallas faith-based nonprofit OurCalling is opening additional warming shelters to help people in Dallas experiencing homelessness stay safe…
There’s also the option to straight-up donate $25 to Eno’s employees. The 12-year-old family owned company has grown to include…
“The police are bringing people by,” OurCalling CEO and Pastor Wayne Walker said. “The hospitals are dropping people off. Street…
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OurCalling has created an app that lists all nearby shelters and allows shelters to communicate with each other so they…
“It’s kind of a worst case scenario in some ways, trying to figure out how to staff this thing, trying…
OurCalling, a nonprofit homeless ministry, is working with the city of Dallas to open the Kay Bailey Hutchinson Convention Center…
A Dallas-based non profit is helping the homeless community find a warm place to stay this winter with a new…
DALLAS – With temperatures below freezing and wind chills even lower in North Texas, spending long stretches of time outside…
The city of Dallas started gearing up for winter weather to move through North Texas last week. Notifications were posted…
Local shelters worked together to get the homeless off the streets and out of the cold Saturday night.
As Dallas residents grappled with the cold, they extended a helping hand to their neighbors. Mark Melton, a local attorney,…
“The alternative is we close our doors and go home and we leave people to sleep outside in freezing weather,”…
OurCalling is making sure the homeless population in Dallas will have a warm place to stay during this winter storm,…
Wayne Walker is a pastor and CEO of the Dallas homeless ministry OurCalling. The Thanksgiving meal it hosts has been…
“We told [the city] we needed the convention center open,” Walker said. “If we didn’t have this space, it’d be…
Intake hours will be from 3 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Friday and from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily…
DALLAS – Dallas has opened two new inclement weather centers for the homeless after the location at Fair Park reached…
City of Dallas partners with nonprofits Austin Street Center and OurCalling to serve those in need
“The city has said they will fine us. We don’t know the financial repercussions if we stay open,” said Our…
When the onset of extreme winter weather began to rip through North Texas, one Dallas-based nonprofit moved to provide an…
This holiday season, one faith-based nonprofit in Dallas is giving back to those in need through food, Christmas movies and…
Last year more than 200 people experiencing homelessness died in Dallas. By discriminating against churches and religious organizations, the city…
The Christian homeless services organization OurCalling is one of those organizations. CEO Pastor Wayne Walker said the St. Jude project…
With COVID cases on the rise, hospital beds aren’t the only ones filling up. Homeless shelters in Dallas County are…
“We have been called into parking lots to identify bodies of people who are literally dying on the streets,” says…
Shelters are completely full. And Pastor Wayne Walker from Our Calling says this population is being ignored, as other city…
It has been 9 years since Dallas added homeless shelter beds according to Wayne Walker with service provider “Our Calling”…
Fortunately, Weed found refuge at the nonprofit organization OurCalling. The outreach center located in downtown Dallas just opened a 16,000-square-foot…
Our Calling, a homeless outreach and resource center south of downtown Dallas, changed its operating hours Wednesday, in favor of…
OurCalling is using their homeless emergency broadcast system to deliver these messages throughout the city, and will deliver timely updates…
They are the nameless, the faceless, the ones many of us just pass by on the street every day. But…
“The people keep coming,” he said. “I just talked to a mom who had six people in her house and…
Wayne Walker, OurCalling’s founder and CEO, said several shelter agencies pooled their money together to pay for another 120 rooms.…
For years, some churches have illegally opened their doors to shelter the homeless because the city has no process to…
Dallas City Council members discussed the city’s policy for helping the homeless on Wednesday. Talks started after a church group…
The city’s zoning laws prohibit homeless shelters from operating within 1,000 feet of churches, schools or residential areas, meaning churches…
There is a huge regional plan to address homelessness in Dallas and Collin counties. It was just approved by the…
OurCalling in Dallas is asking for the public’s help as triple-digit temperatures are expected in the forecast for several days.…
As a result of the dangerous winter weather in Texas, homeless shelters and non-profits are working overtime trying to offer…
Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott is helping the less fortunate during their time of need as North Texas continues to…
As Texas grapples with ongoing impacts from arctic temperatures that hit the state this week — weather that resulted in…
Huge props to Dak Prescott … the Cowboys superstar just helped homeless people in Dallas deal with the tragic snowstorms…
Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott and actor Matthew McConaughey helped buy meals for homeless Dallas residents staying at the city’s…
The North Texas area has been hit with record-low temperatures over the past week. Winter storms have caused power outages,…
The Cowboys QB began his partnership with Walk-On’s restaurant by giving meals to Dallas’ homeless on Tuesday. One of the…
Due to this week’s uncharacteristic ice storms in the Southwest US, millions of Texans are struggling without power and water…
Dallas nonprofits that routinely help the homeless have now been forced to change how they do that. One big reason,…
Sometimes we may need a little help, and OurCalling has stood up to offer that help. That’s why we’re shining…
Churches and shelters are being proactive about trying to get the homeless out of the cold. The shelters say during…
As DFW prepares for an arctic blast this week, Austin Street Center and OurCalling are joining forces to protect the…
“If they run out of rooms and people can’t get in, OurCalling will remain open to make sure our friends…
With many people in Downtown Dallas seeing panhandlers getting more aggressive, the city says it has the solution — a…
DALLAS – A Dallas homeless service provider is prepared to break the law, if necessary, to house people in extremely…
Our Calling is not a soup kitchen, shelter or medical facility; instead, it partners with organizations that can provide those…
The other $5.5 million will be spread out among the company’s AT&T Believes program. In Dallas, the employee-led, volunteer initiative…
AT&T’s donation will help fund a new space for homeless women with a background of trauma, such as domestic abuse…
WAYNE WALKER: And, unfortunately, a lot of the philanthropy on the streets where people just pile up blankets and give…
Our Calling has created an app to help those in North Texas and across the country who are experiencing homelessness…
It’s unclear when the game may be made up at this point, and the status of tomorrow’s game against the…
Millions of Texans are still in need of food, water and warm shelter amid brutal winter weather, but many are…
OurCalling, which combats homelessness in Dallas, has worked around the clock over the last several days to convert the Kay…
Nearly 560,000 homes and businesses in Texas were still without electricity Thursday morning, down from about 3 million the day…
Nearly 560,000 homes and businesses in Texas were still without electricity Thursday morning, down from about 3 million the day…
DALLAS — Dak Prescott sounds a bit like a NASCAR driver lately. “My foundation, Faith, Fight Finish, as well as…
The app allows users to share the location for a camp or individual that may need assistance. DALLAS — The…
More than 1,500 people sought protection from the winter weather at three shelters – Fair Park, Austin Street Center and…
‘Invest in people’: Dallas homeless advocates hit the streets to help people escape the winter storm
OurCalling, a faith-based homeless advocacy organization, drove around Dallas to tell people about the city’s temporary weather shelter at Fair…