homeless – REMERGE

Jerry’s Surgery

[Posted by Sylvia Broome, member of the Church on the Street community and director of women’s and human trafficking ministries] My daughter had surgery in May. I was impressed by the gentle and reassuring attention from the nurses, the thorough conversation with the doctor prior to the surgery, and the visit from the anesthesiologist who […]

The Rational Choices of Crack Addicts

The New York Times has an article about the research and new book from Dr. Carl Hart from Columbia University that makes for a potentially paradigm shifting encounter. What is most encouraging is that it helps us, and other communities like ours, to think even further and deeper about the implications and power of belonging and […]

Mentally ill and homeless

I was down at Church on the Street today gathering information for our social media outreach. During lunch I was walking around to the various tables just to say hello and see how everyone was doing. As I was going around one of the young ladies, who is homeless, was looking at me […]

New computers needed

Monday through Friday after lunch we have what we call enrichment time. This is a time period when things get done within the community. Cleaning, clothing closet operation, work on resumes, etc. We have a couple of old desktop computers and a printer//copier/fax machine. The two computers we have are rather old and have come […]

Lunch time amazement

I’m always amazed at what Chef Harry can do with the donations that we get in. Today was a Mexican inspired concoction that was nothing short of excellent.

A spicy request

Chef Harry gave me a list of spices that he needs for the kitchen today. Harry cooks 5 days a week, breakfast and lunch for no charge. He just uses the food items that we get donated. Here’s his request from today if you would like to help: Pepper Vanilla extract Beef broth Chicken broth […]

Update for Church on the Street 11/9/12

We had a busy week. We had our open house a few days ago. We were able to share what we do with some local people and businesses. We helped a lady and her daughter get into transitional housing. Helped 2 other women get off the street and return to the families. Helped another […]

October Blue Jean drive

Today is the start of our first annual blue jean drive. We take in these donations and then give them out to homeless members of our community as they are needed. We set an initial goal of 100 pair, but we may be aiming low. If you would like to donate a pair of jeans […]

Community workers

I pulled into the parking lot at Church on the Street this morning to find one of the homeless members of our community busy working on cleaning up the parking lot. He had his rake, leaf blower and dust pan and he was working up a storm. I really can’t tell you how awesome that […]

Reading is a gift

We have the task of educating people outside of our community on what we do in our community. It’s a difficult task at times because when someone finds out we work with many homeless people in Atlanta, they automatically think that we are a shelter or a soup kitchen. We are neither. We do meals […]