Word on the Street


A Place for All to Shelter
Homelessness could look quite different in the Fredericksburg Region in the next few months. A large flow of CoVid-19 relief funds has equipped local homeless service providers with the resources to stabilize most of the current homeless...
Caring for Neighbors: Carrying the Load
My son is obsessed with Band-Aids. Last week, his grandma got him a box of “emoji” print “stickers” (as he likes to call them) that he can’t keep his hands off of. It is not uncommon to see him obliviously running around with a silly “poop emoji” Band-Aid on his...
Cultivating Community:Being Street Church
Gathered around the sofas of a Micah church, nine people – some newly housed and some not yet in housing--met recently to talk about their lives as a community. Two years ago, a small Bible study and worship service began after a Sunday morning breakfast in the...
Be our Battle Buddy
I was first introduced to the battle buddy concept by a barely 20-year-old Army crewman. He had come from another state in the middle of the night last year to be at the bedside of his dying mother, a member of our Micah community who had fallen ill and never regained...
