It’s the first night of THREE-OH-WE-GO for the season. The temperature is rapidly approaching freezing outside. The decline this night came very suddenly. When the team arrived at the church building’s steps, our last stop of the night, I beheld a sight like I had not seen before. There were…

Recently, I had the opportunity to travel to Las Vegas, Nevada to begin to learn about homelessness in the city. A good friend is the director of a large industry conference that takes place in Las Vegas each year. As a part of the conference, he wants to offer a…

flood student missions is a faith based 501(c)3 organization that “exists to cultivate servant hearts in students by providing local mission opportunities for students to saturate their communities with hearts and hands of Christ allows this cultivation process to take place.” They lead students into varieties of service opportunities that…

Atlanta Outreach Project (@atloutreach) is a non-profit organization in Atlanta, GA. They seek to provide innovative solutions to ending homelessness in collaboration with other agencies. AOP approached @lampso to redesign their previous website (atloutreach.org). The old website was all HTML and did not have any interactivity with others or social…

That is the sight of several hundred homeless men and women getting connected to resources in Atlanta. Some time ago a few people from the United Way and the Living Room got together and began talking about bringing a national initiative called Project Homeless Connect to Atlanta. I had the…

From the hundreds of people that met Shelia over my last two summers at Safehouse Outreach to those who have only learned her name through a facebook or twitter post, so many of you have been on this ride with us. Before I begin this blog I would first like…

As part of the summer experiences that we host here at SHO we include an educational project called “Homeless for a day.” Earlier this month we hosted a team from the suburbs of Atlanta. They brought a different group of about 40 students to SHO each day to do this…

I turned thirty on Tuesday of this week. This year was perhaps the best birthday I have ever had. It was the best for so many reasons. My friends and family threw me an amazing birthday party. I was given some great gifts. I was surrounded by people I love…

About a week or so ago, I was out on a city walk with a group and we stopped by Woodruff park to see how everyone was doing. As we were wandering through the park visiting with several of our homeless friends, a man asked my wife if he could…

I can hardly contain my excitement. This morning was one of the best mornings I have had in a long time. Each day at SHO we fight against the seemingly never-ending curse of homelessness. We do everything we can to help people get out of homelessness and become thriving parts…