In the summer of 2017, a speaker at the National Alliance to End Homelessness Conference presented a video on how a systemic response to homelessness should work. The video portrayed a drawing of a waterfall, representing all the people falling into homelessness. As...
Covid-19 has changed the way the world looks at hospitality. We protect others by being less inclusive – we don’t gather with our friends and family, we don’t share as freely, we keep a distance and often a barrier between ourselves and those we meet. While Micah is...
Homelessness could look quite different in the Fredericksburg Region in the next few months. A large flow of CoVid-19 relief funds has equipped local homeless service providers with the resources to stabilize most of the current homeless...
My son is obsessed with Band-Aids. Last week, his grandma got him a box of “emoji” print “stickers” (as he likes to call them) that he can’t keep his hands off of. It is not uncommon to see him obliviously running around with a silly “poop emoji” Band-Aid on his...
Gathered around the sofas of a Micah church, nine people – some newly housed and some not yet in housing–met recently to talk about their lives as a community. Two years ago, a small Bible study and worship service began after a Sunday morning breakfast in the...
