Word on the Street

Pruning for Purpose

I planted a plat of marigolds along the walkway one Spring.  I watered them, enjoyed them and promptly dug them up three weeks later when they had shriveled to my lack of care. By the following year, I reveled in my relocation to a home with mature landscaping. The...

Help us collect for the Micah Yard Sale

Micah Yard Sale June 11 from 8:30am to 2pm Target shopping center off of Rt. 17 in Stafford. Micah Ecumenical Ministries is collecting “big ticket” treasures for a June Yard Sale. Clean out those garages, basements and storage units Pull out your furniture, appliances...

Rising Again

Desperate words broke our Micah morning calm. "Come quick, come quick. We've found her and she is dead." It had been an unusual three days since we last saw this particular client. But it was not so unusual for a homeless search party to stumble upon her in a feeble...

How does your garden grow?

He stepped out of prison just in time for the big snow. At 61, he was sleeping on the streets with arthritic hips and a record that no employer would give a second glance. But as the snow fell on Fredericksburg, it was this little man who led the Micah...