“Won’t you look down upon me, Jesus; You’ve got to help me make a stand. You’ve just got to see me through another day. My body’s aching and my time is at hand and I won’t make it any other way.” James Taylor, Fire and Rain Her name is Cindee Leak. And that she definitely […]
The Cure for Homelessness – Part 3: How Rescue Missions Can Help
PART THREE: Not Just a Temporary Fix: How Rescue Missions Can Help Everybody (Read Parts One and Part Two of The Cure for Homelessness here.) “Being a person known as chronically homeless, is no life. How many times can I keep starting over from a place that doesn’t let you start at all?”- S.M., currently […]
The Cure for Homelessness: Part 2 – The Homeless Heart
PART TWO: The Homeless Heart—How We’re All Unsheltered. (Click here to read Part One: Unsheltered: How Does It Feel? There’s no doubt that those who are outside those four walls—the men and women living on the street—are generally judged the harshest by those who consider themselves above that way of life. Never mind that anyone […]
The Cure for Homelessness: It’s An Inside Job—with Outside Help ( Part One)
This three-part article explores the following key points about homelessness: How it feels to be homeless from the people who’ve lived it The debilitating mindset that all homeless people have in common What helps break the cycle of being unable to think like a person with a future How all addictions—no matter what they may […]
Pastor Dave Honey: 8,030 God Encounters in 22 Years
Pastor Dave Honey: 8,030 God Encounters in 22 Years: There’s a Miracle in That Math “For the past 22 years that I’ve been at the Mission, I’ve never seen God not be here. If you keep your eyes open, you’ll see a miracle at least once a day.” Twenty-three years ago, Dave Honey was getting […]