Street Church: Promises

Beloved Community Partners, This is the first Sunday in a month that there has not been ice or snow in the forecast. Despite not running the Micah bus over the last couple of weeks, when weather conditions have not permitted safe-travel, we have committed to being.a...

Street Church: The Mountaintop

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...

Street Church: God’s Timing

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...

Street Church: Holding Space

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...

Word on the Street: Where God needs us next

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...