Jamesha’s Story: ‘With God All Things Are Possible’
The first day of kindergarten was approaching and Jamesha was running out of time. The preschooler, who lives at O.U.R. Mission Home with her mother and five siblings, couldn’t recognize her name — let alone spell it. She could sing the alphabet song but couldn’t identify the letters out of sequence. She didn’t know her […]
Douglas Clinton Whitehurst’s poetry
HOMELESS NOT HOPELESS Out on the streets of this town See so many walking around People with no place to go No hope in their eyes, none to show Now I find myself right there too Think in my heart, what do I do? I still have faith through all this mess I may be […]
One Homeless Night 2009 Testimony
I cannot tell you how mind-blowing this event was; our experience was not able to be completely representative of an actual night of being homeless — although it was definitely outside our “comfort level”, it was a “glorified homeless experience”… Upon check in, we received a slate of cardboard to sleep on and were allowed […]