Hello Friends, If ending homelessness is the goal, I don’t always think Micah has done a very good job. Still, after 15 years, there is always someone else in crisis, something more we could have done, or a different decision we might have made. In my case, I chose a...
I want to ask for a special prayer for Arritt this week, as he prepares to meet his 16-year-old daughter for the first time. The daughter’s mother has been hearing about how much better Arritt is doing and the daughter is at an age she has been asking a lot of...
For nearly 15 years now, a snow day at Micah has meant hunkering down in one of the church fellowship halls, sometimes for days at a time. With sleeping bags on the floor, food stocked well from the community meal teams and a healthy supply of movies, it has been kind...
After a decade and a half of caring for street people, I often like to think I have this love your neighbor thing figured out. But every time I get there, God reveals just one more thing. And I question everything. Some years ago, I assisted a homeless vet...
For 73 days this year, Virginians sheltered in place under the Governor’s “stay at home” order. But the reality for 110 neighbors within the Micah community was that they had no shelter in which to place. Through the love of our churches, Micah...
There has been much talk in recent years about the ALICE (Asset-limited, income-constrained, employed) population. In a different time, ALICE would be considered the working poor. While we hope you will read the 2020 Virginia ALICE report and consider...
