the street
I lay in my bed and see the people on the street. My imagination goes wild. What might it be like to be one living on the street? To have no cool place to lay my head at night. No shelter from the storms that come. To have no privacy, no real space to call [...]
i’m spent [a homeless experiment]
Over 14 million Americans are unemployed. Now I’m one of them. My savings are gone. I’ve lost my house I’m a single parent And I’m down to my last $1,000 I’m not sure I can make it through the month… I go to find a job, but there’s nothing available in my field. It doesn’t [...]
the land of no birthdays
Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you all …. Happy birthday to you! As we sang these familiar words, tears formed in the woman’s eyes. But it’s not my birthday, she said. I gently responded to her, That’s okay. Today we’re celebrating all of your birthdays! She couldn’t remember the [...]
poverty [not just a third-world problem]
People go to bed hungry every night, and it’s easy to see it in third-world countries all around the world. But the truth is that there are millions of people right here in the United States that don’t know where their next meal is coming from. What do you need to do in order to [...]
[the 72 project] churches, zoos, and salt shakers
It is not a habit of mine to sugarcoat things. Every time I write one of these posts, I reread it over and over and find myself grimacing at the words I use. I want to clean it up, soften it, make it “PC”, water it down. I don’t like telling you that Malinda, sweet [...]
[the 72 project] young and homeless
Now Nashville… Well it is a long ways from California, geographically and culturally. It’s a whole ‘nother world out here. This is not my first trip to Nashville, but this time my purpose is different; I’m here to see — really see with God’s eyes — the homeless and impoverished on the streets and serve [...]
[the 72 project] divine interactions in austin
So Austin, TX… This post has been a bit delayed now that I am situated in the Nashville, TN area, but I feel it incredibly important to recount what happened in that city. It is quite a city. While it was hard to find homeless in Phoenix, one would have to be blind to not [...]
shining light on the souls of shadows [purpose of the seventy-two project]
Two of my personal goals on this trip are to deeply get to know the people God puts in my path, and to share their life stories with as many people as I can so that people can put a name to a face. When I’ve talked to friends or others about helping the homeless [...]
the seventy-two project
Later the Master selected seventy(-two) and sent them ahead of him in pairs to every town and place where he intended to go. He gave them this charge: “What a huge harvest! And how few the harvest hands. So on your knees; ask the God of the Harvest to send harvest hands. On your way! [...]
a cross-country trip [for the least of these]
God is moving. I’ve heard so many people saying that recently, yet it’s still so easy for us to continue sitting in our pews at church and leave the moving to God. So I’d like to say instead that God isn’t just moving… God is calling His children to move. And so my friends and [...]
[invisible friday]: vickie
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[invisible friday]: billy
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[invisible friday]: cecilia and juliana
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[invisible friday]: eve
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[invisible friday]: cliff
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