“While here at the Mission, the money they helped me to save enabled me to get an apartment. The cycle was broken! I’m so very grateful to the Mission for giving me both the gift of time and the financial tools I needed to finally get ahead.” – Jennifer One bad turn deserves other another…and […]
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 […]