We lost our son in 2005. He was just 20 years old. He was shot by his roommate as he was coming over to our house to celebrate Father’s Day. He had recently graduated from a drug rehab program.…
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I have always had an internal struggle when it comes to reaching out to the homeless. I grew up in a suburban town in New Jersey and I didn’t encounter many homeless people there. When I moved to Southern California to…
I am a recovering alcoholic. I’ve been sober now for 27 years and that’s truly by the power and grace of God. Alcohol almost killed me. It destroyed my first marriage and I got in a horrible car accident…
When I was 12 years old, my parents sat me down and told me we were moving. They were becoming house parents at Big Oak Ranch, a Christian home for children needing a chance. It’s one thing to talk…
I fought off becoming a Young Life leader most of college, but after graduating and returning home, my heart changed; I began to appreciate that Young Life truly goes where the teens are. Young Life teaches its leaders to…
It has always been my desire to find inexpensive, meaningful ways to get Bibles into the hands of people willing to take one. I became a Christian a little later in life, and reading scripture has had a deeply profound impact on…
I have been fighting sex trafficking in Boston for the past eight years. My exposure to this horror began in college. I heard a presentation from the founder of “Not for Sale” about modern day slavery and human trafficking.…
I have always had a passion for animals, and knew I had to get involved when I came across two huskies belonging to a young Marine on a Facebook group I follow. The group is for men and women…
I’ve always loved music. One of my earliest memories is standing on a pew between my mother and father on a Sunday morning, hymnal in hand, singing to Jesus. And I’ve also always loved crafting. It brings me so much…
I am a New Yorker, a painter, a wife, a soon-to-be mother and a sister who recently lost a sibling. Growing up, I was the youngest of five in my strong Italian-American family. We lost our brother, Matt, in…
I started putting together love-on-the go bags about five years ago. I got inspired while driving and consistently being stopped at a certain street corner where homeless people ask for money or help. I would scrounge in my car to try to…
My mom raised me to see the poor, to view life through the eyes of people who are economically at the bottom. She taught me that people living in impoverished conditions need help, and that I could serve through…
My passion for people experiencing utter darkness isn’t something I ever thought I’d be in the middle of. In fact, I avoided vulnerability and sharing anything about the past with others like “the plague”. It wasn’t until I became…
It all started in a trash dump called La Chureca in Managua, Nicaragua. It was the largest landfill in Central America. There, about 1500 people lived and worked everyday picking up recyclables, in horrific conditions. Large families were living…
I am a retired florist, but I still love working and being as active as I can. It helps me feel purpose to “give back” to others. I began asking the Lord what my retirement years should look like–how…
In 2002, I went to a ministry fair at my church and stopped by a table marked “Prison Ministry”. It sounded a little intimidating but intriguing, so I accompanied a group of church members the next week to a…
The Bible says love your neighbor as yourself, but what does it actually mean? How do we actually love our neighbors as ourselves? I began praying and asking the Lord to show what it looked like for me. He…