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...
It was sometime in 2008 that Micah housed its first homeless person. Admittedly, the event transpired in the aftermath of a minor crisis in which we feared the worst had occurred for one of our street friends. But it was a notable beginning to what we have come to...
On his 18thbirthday, a young man found himself scouring the wooded areas of Fredericksburg for a campsite. His relationship with his adoptive parents had never gone well, but now that he was officially an adult they no longer had legal responsibility for him. More...
In the second grade, I wrote an award-winning story entitled “The search for the sky’s end.” It began, of course, with a princess sitting on her balcony. Some birds flew by and, of all things, she began to wonder where the sky ended. She called her guards who set out...
The community had watched a small African-American woman push shopping carts between three different corners of the Massaponax corridor for nearly a year. Passersby had showered her with so many sundry items that her load had grown from a single half shuttle to a...
