After a small step of faith, my wife and I find ourselves parked on Blount Street adjacent to Moore Square on a cold, dreary November morning in 2007. Stacked in the back of our van are 48 bacon/egg/cheese biscuits and 60 cups of hot coffee. The Square is more than quiet. Eerie quiet. You could [...]
Just a quick heads up that March’s newsletter went out on Friday of last week. If you did not get yours, let me know - some folks said theirs was booted to the spam folder in their email client. And if you are not subscribed, I hope you will consider it.
Also, I included a link [...]
As I wrote the other day, not all homeless are destitute. Nor do they all live in shelters or under bridges.
In this excellent article in the International edition of the New York Times, the author profiles a family that lives in a motel in California. This is sad, but it is NOT rare. I see [...]
When I am asked to speak, I like to hold a Q&A afterward if at all possible. Inevitably, I get asked a slew of questions that imply that the people I am helping do not deserve my help. And I have to be honest here: That line of thinking really makes me angry. Implicit in [...]
When I mention that a big part of what we do here at Love Wins Ministries revolves around the homeless, many people automatically think I mean people with no jobs. People with no money. And sometimes, that is true. However, a lot of the people I know do work… they just do not earn enough [...]
The phrase most often searched on Google to end up on this website is “Homeless Help Raleigh“.
These are often people that are facing homelessness and don’t know what to do. They may have just lost their job, or are about to be foreclosed on, or just at the end of their luck. The way the [...]
By some counts, there are over 2000 verses in the Bible that deal with the subject of poverty and social justice. While I doubt I will ever get to listing all 2000, I have decided to start this page, where I will keep a list.
I have spent most of the last year collecting a list [...]
Even though the temperature has dropped here in Raleigh, life on the streets goes on. And even though I was snowed in on Monday, I still caught up on the local gossip on the street… via the internet. That’s right - the homeless have email and Facebook accounts, just like you do.
It is easy to [...]
