This is the post where I must declare my hypocrisy. Despite having years of experiencing health and emotional problems due to overwork and overstress, I still indulge myself in too much. One might call me a work addict (and some have) but the fact is that I spend a lot...

Serving the needy is a desperately difficult profession. Often I hear the homeless speak negatively about social workers or those who process forms at Adult and Family Services. About how they don’t really care about people, how they are callous or downright mean. And while I cannot speak for each...

Diane and I sat in our bedroom, assessing our reality. We’d been working with the homeless for twelve years and we were more than tired. Diane finds herself constantly exhausted, always wanting to go to bed, hardly able to look at our home, let alone begin to clean it. I...

What is Christmas about? Christmas is about tradition. The things we were raised doing, we want to keep doing. And Christmas is one of the main times of year to keep old traditions alive that have survived at least thirty years or so. What is your Christmas about? Check the...

There is a program in Portland, as well as many other cities, in which the most needy homeless are granted an opportunity to move into an apartment for six months, cost free. The idea behind this is to give a homeless person an opportunity to get off the street permanently....

Guest blog by Rebecca Floyd So, last week we made the decision to stop running around like crazy people on the weekend trying to “attend” two churches. We love our Calvary Chapel church but haven’t felt that was exactly where God wanted us to stay since we started attending. Which...