Stories tagged with: homeless

• Church models low-cost, replicable homeless ministry

  by Diana Chandler, posted Friday, August 09, 2019 (5 years ago)

  

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  EL CAJON, Calif. (BP) -- Any church can do this, pastor Rolland Slade told Baptist Press.

  On a vacant lot at Slade's senior pastorate Meridian Baptist Church in El Cajon, Calif., a tiny cabin is being built as an emergency, secure shelter for homeless women and children.

  "All that we were doing before was growing tumbleweeds," Slade told BP Wednesday (Aug. 7), regarding the land. "Where now, if we're able to build this little village of emergency sleeping cabins, we're able to minister to people. We're able to come alongside of them and really ... meet them at their point of need and share Christ with them, and love on them, bring them back into safety and ... give them dignity." Read More

• Cold temps open doors to minister to homeless

  by Diana Chandler, posted Friday, January 26, 2018 (6 years ago)

  

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  DALLAS (BP) -- A homeless man lay frozen to death within eyesight of Cornerstone Baptist Church in South Dallas as record-breaking cold temperatures befell much of the U.S.

  Just like a wheelchair-bound homeless woman who froze the same Jan. 16 night half a mile away at a bus station, the man refused to abandon familiar surroundings to accept the warm bed that could have saved his life, Cornerstone pastor Chris Simmons told Baptist Press a week after the deaths. Read More

• Wiley Drake fights to reopen church homeless shelter

  by Diana Chandler, posted Friday, February 10, 2017 (7 years ago)

  

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  BUENA PARK, Calif. (BP) -- Southern Baptist pastor Wiley Drake is seeking a restraining order against three city officials in Buena Park, Calif., after the city condemned and shut down his church's homeless shelter Feb. 9.

  Drake, pastor of First Southern Baptist Church in Buena Park, was given a March 3 court date when he applied for the restraining order hours after the city shuttered the 52-bed shelter for code violations that Drake disputes. The city cited the shelter for a hazardous electrical system and said the shelter lacks proper emergency exits, certified fire alarms and certified smoke detectors, according to the Orange County Register. Read More

• Church food ministries serve thousands

  by Bonnie Pritchett/Southern Baptist TEXAN, posted Tuesday, November 25, 2014 (9 years ago)

  

  AUSTIN (BP) -- It was never his plan, never his desire, but for six years Ellis Johnson called the streets of Austin home.

  "Six years on the street humbled me a lot," Johnson said in a telephone interview from his new home in Austin. Read More