"When
you’re homeless, it’s so horrible that it’s really difficult to describe.
You feel humiliated...you have no self-esteem, no self-respect. Without the hope of Jesus,
there’s nothing that a homeless can even think about in their life. There’s no
goal, there’s no hope, there’s just destruction. It’s really awful."
"The book of James commands us to have our faith accompanied by action and that if
we see a brother or sister without food or clothing, not to just say ‘Go, I wish you
well, keep warm and well fed,’ but to do something about that in tangible ways."
"When I go out in the streets and see somebody digging in the garbage pail to eat,
I feel that I’m not going to say ‘Well, let me go home and pray about it.’
I want to be there to meet that need because that’s what Jesus did."
"Homeless people aren’t a trusting people, because they’ve had so many
hard things happen in their lives and their hard hearts have turned to become
callused."
"They need a place to come to the mission where they can just sit and rest at the
Lord’s feet and let Him minister to them - get fed spiritually. That is so
important."
"To minister to their emotional needs is to set them back where they know that the
Lord first of all cares about them, that they can start to care about themselves; that
they have to have responsibility, that they have to not serve self, because homeless
people have self on the throne of their lives."
"I could not imagine not devoting myself 100% to the Lord. I just have such a
mighty God, that He forgave me so much. He pulled me out of that slimy pit, and out of the
mud and mire, and He loved me that much."
