Word on the Street

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...