Thanking you for your prayers

Thanking you for your prayers

Through various Facebookposts over the past few months we have mentioned and requested prayer for JB.  Thanks to your prayers, we eventually reconnected him with his family and got him a place in a rehab facility.  This past Friday night I was talking with a friend about how JB’s initial 30 days should be nearly completed and that meant […]

When loving others becomes infectious.

When loving others becomes infectious.

Keith has 1 year clean and God led him to Retreat from the Street to fulfill one of his final steps in his recovery. The court and his program required him to perform some community service hours to complete his journey. When we met he was unsure (as many are) how to enter into our simple form of ministry. It took […]

God is Good

God is Good

What’s Going On? The following are highlights (recorded on facebook over the past month) of how God is transforming the lives of the least of our brothers and sisters…  (Note: Church on the Street is not in the direct business of social services, we are in the business of reconciliation.  Thus, what God is doing […]

Does what we say really matter?

Does what we say really matter?

There was no healing at the pool of Bethesda until one was willing to step into the TROUBLED water (John 5:1-9). This morning DJ was very troubled and came in to Retreat like a tornado. I stepped directly into his trouble, spoke with him briefly then walked away.  After a few minutes he came back and apologized […]

Daily Miracles

Daily Miracles

We believe in a living, active God. This is the only way that what we do has any logic and it is thus central to who we are.  We recently announced a new ministry, Retreat from the Street.  The ministry is in essence a holy space, set apart from the everyday, where men and women in precarious […]