Monthly Archives December 2008

Thanks, and a New Way to Help

Over the last year, some of you have come to support our ministry financially. I am so grateful for each of you. If you do not know, this is what I do. Full-time. And I am only able to do it because of your financial support.
If you have been meaning to contribute to my support [...]

Not Screaming is Hard, Sometimes

I have known them almost a year and a half. They are a bi-racial couple, difficult at any time in the South, but when you are homeless, it is just one more barrier you face in interacting with the “normal” world. And more barriers are the last thing they need.
She is a high-school dropout, who [...]

Newsletter Just Went Out

Just a heads up that my end of the year newsletter just went out to the folks on that list.
Once a month (more or less), I sit down and tell you about the work we are doing out here and tell you ways you can help us do it. If this sounds like something [...]

Just What is the Gospel?

I had a gentleman write me a week or so back who was concerned because I once said
“Do not feed someone to ’share the gospel’ with them. Feed them because that is the gospel (or a big hunk of it, anyway).”
He was trying to tag me in “pin the tail on the heretic”. This [...]

Hugh’s November 2008 Newsletter

Dear Friends,
As much as I like writing these emails, they necessarily have to take a back seat to the actual work of ministry itself. I almost did not get this one out to you-not because of a lack of material or information, but because of the time demands created by being in this sort of [...]

The Gathering: Eating Together

In our little experiment we call (for lack of a better term) The Gathering, one of the things we hold dear is the idea that those of us who claim to follow Jesus should eat together regularly. There are several reasons for this, among them being:
The first church ate together.
The first Jesus followers were [...]