A 62-year-old Army veteran, found himself living in his car after leaving a challenging marriage. Having spent much of his life as a truck driver for a manufacturing plant and living independently, he wasn’t good at asking for help. But when his health started to...
Recently, a case manager stopped by to visit a long-time friend in need. The woman and her husband had lived on the streets in our community for many years before making it back into permanent housing. Getting back indoors made a tremendous difference in their...
For the last year, Micah has partnered with Stafford food security to provide food bags to kids in city schools. Our churches have been packing about 160 bags a month for the kids at Walker Grant and Lafayette. Recently, an additional need of 50 bags a week was...
She came to see me about her mother’s ashes I had come into possession of them following a sudden death, an absent next of kin and a request from the community police to find a resting place. Barely an adult herself, the young woman was equally ill-equipped to balance...
The winter season was almost over, but every morning for 18 weeks the same volunteer had done the morning bus run for the cold weather shelter. For 126 mornings, he climbed from his bed at quarter to six and drove to the lot where the bus was parked. It took a good...
