I thought I had it all figured out in my twenties. I would be a full time missionary in Africa, care for babies with AIDS in the hospital, and see hundreds of lives change for God’s glory. At least that was MY dream. I prayed fervently for this dream to come to fruition; I was…
It was while I was sitting in our weekly prayer meeting one Monday night when I first saw them. They were faces. I saw faces peering through the huge glass windows of our storefront at The 180 Center. So many faces. They were the countenances of people who were hungry and longing. Yearning for warmth…
With COVID-19 spreading, wildfires blazing out of control, fierce hurricane winds and flooding, and severe financial challenges, we may feel like we need a miracle to make it to the end of 2020! Do you believe God still does miracles? Have you ever experienced one of your own? Raised in a suburban middle class neighborhood…
Working with broken people can be challenging. Not everyone has the patience for people who seem desperate for help one day, but walk out the door a week later because they want to eat brown rice instead of white rice! When we first started working with homeless and addicted people, we had no idea the…
My stomach felt unsettled and my mind was fast forwarding through every possible escape route I could imagine. The hand of regret wrapped around my throat, squeezed every anticipated breath from my chest and robbed me of hope for redemption. It was a horrible, speeding, out-of-control roller coaster that I recently boarded and there was…
We were restless. Mike owned a successful landscape company, our kids brought us great joy and drove us crazy; we enjoyed being active in our church and doing community outreaches, but we felt as if there was something more for us. We talked about going to a YWAM Crossroads Mission School in Hawaii. This…
We weren’t exactly thrilled when we moved to New Haven. We had a wonderful white picket fence life near the beach in Blue Point, Long Island. We lived in the home of our dreams. Most of all, we were comfortable. New Haven, through our eyes at the time, was quite different. It was city life that…
