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...
At her lowest point, almost eight years ago, a neighbor in need was hunched over a chair while a case manager snipped her long blonde locks to the floor. In her months of staying outside and holding up in cheap motels she had collected such a horrendous case of head...
If you listen closely among the homeless community—at least those who have been around for a while—you will hear them talk about a woman who was incredibly important to them. The late Barbara Gear spent 20 of her retirement years feeding, counseling and sheltering...
The United Nations’ General Assembly has declared Friday, September 21, 2018 as a day devoted to strengthening the ideals of peace, both within and among all nations and peoples. The theme of the 2018 International day of peace is “The Right to...
