Saturday, December 31, 2011
God's Promises Are Awesome. " Happy New Year".
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
His Love Street 2012
Monday, November 28, 2011
Mae West- Trey Noran
Sly Stone Con Or Truth?
I worked for many years getting many to see the needs of the many homeless whom are sincerely seeking help due to circumstances beyond there control. At times I literary have to beg people to help our cause then my compassion goes sky rocket when I hear that Sly Stone an amazing singer in the 70's becomes homeless so once again I make aware to the media and others to help him get on track, then his brother Fred emails me and say's Trey he really isn't homeless but just playing it out. Please when you hear stories like this and find out his circumstances is not what he is portraying please don't keep from giving. We are doing a homeless event this Saturday and very few wanted to give please search your hearts and give I know many that seriously in need of your help. Http://hislovestreet2010.com/
Saturday, November 26, 2011
From Millionaire To Homeless.
Please search your heart and give on our site at http://hislovestreet2012.com as we are also doing our yearly feeding and clothing event December 3rd in downtown Denver.
This is too sad and even the best of us can have some tough times.
God bless you.
http://www.tmz.com/2011/09/25/sly-stone-homeless-van-sylvester-stewart
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Feeding the homeless 2011.
This Scripture is what keeps me going another day!!!
Hebrews 13:5
New International Version ( Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said,
“Never will I leave you;
never will I forsake you.”
Monday, November 14, 2011
The Dred D. Scott Show
Dred D Scott Show: with his band.
The Wazee Super Club
1600 15th Street Friday November 25th at 8pm
Dred Scott is still trying to make sense of the fact that he has gone from street musician to Internet sensation in a matter of months. David Adebonojo, who performs under the name of the slave who unsuccessfully sued to free himself and his family, is something of an institution in downtown Denver. Over the past five years, his bluesy acoustic covers of popular songs, including Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On" and Prince's "Purple Rain," have drawn a following among passers-by intrigued by the talent of a homeless musician.
Dred D Scott has just released his CD “Trials and Tribulations” and has done CBS Early Show and soon on a National TV Show. In the past four weeks, his audience has become international. YouTube clips of his performance have collected more than 800,000 clicks since July.
The Wazee Super Club
1600 15th Street Friday November 25th at 8pm
Dred Scott is still trying to make sense of the fact that he has gone from street musician to Internet sensation in a matter of months. David Adebonojo, who performs under the name of the slave who unsuccessfully sued to free himself and his family, is something of an institution in downtown Denver. Over the past five years, his bluesy acoustic covers of popular songs, including Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On" and Prince's "Purple Rain," have drawn a following among passers-by intrigued by the talent of a homeless musician.
Dred D Scott has just released his CD “Trials and Tribulations” and has done CBS Early Show and soon on a National TV Show. In the past four weeks, his audience has become international. YouTube clips of his performance have collected more than 800,000 clicks since July.
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
His Love Street
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Dred Scott and Trey Noran on KGNU radio September 20th 2011 Live.
Dred Scott's new song "Ballad of a Husteler" is a song that has meaning and will touch many as this will be a huge seller. Dred D Scott's Debut next week at Lannies Clocktower Cabaret in downtown Denver. Look for Dred's CD "Trials and Tribulations" on sale October 1st 2011.
http://www.kgnu.org/shows.php
Thursday, September 15, 2011
iTBN Glory to God.
What an awesome God, iTBN 24 hours a day; when you need lifting, prayer or want to watch a show you can anytime you want. TBN; God has used your station for his vision, Jan and Paul your love and support has helped me many times in my life. From Russia to Denver at a click of a mouse you can watch PTL.
http://www.itbn.org/
Saturday, September 10, 2011
Trey Noran Hold On to your dreams.
Hold on to your Dreams"
Many have said during my vision to open a homeless hotel; that it is too big of a dream and I was not realistic enough and it would never happen. But you see when God place’s a vision and a dream in your heart “Trust in Him With all Thy Heart” he shall open doors that many can’t and close the wrong doors. We are filming the “Early Show” and had a hug article in The Denver Post, and working with The Ellen DeGeneres and The New Rosie O’Donnell Show that shall get the word out to open the doors of “His Love Street Hotel for the homeless. And for years I seen nothing happen but my faith would not allow me to quit. Our Corporation released yesterday " Dred D. Scott's Trials and Tribulations. H.I.S Label. http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/dredscott
His Love Street Hotel
Training center, clinic, employment placement, chapel, 1000 rooms and business’s to employ the homeless.
Help support this vision http://Hislovestreet.com/
Thursday, September 8, 2011
President Obama and His Love Street.
Address to Congress: September 8, 2011 by President Obama was terrific and he is so right to bring jobs back to the USA and not over sea’s as well as veterans when they return after protecting our freedom to be able to have a job when they return. Ok, McCain and Palin give credit where credit is deserved as your actions are not of caring but over ruling the President. Thank you, President Obama for taking on past Presidents messes and debits.
Let’s work together as a county not a political party.
Let’s work together as a county not a political party.
Dred D.Scott-His Love Corporation
Thanks to the many people who have support Dred Scott; we are working hard and his first CD will be for sale in three weeks with all his original material and it is great. CBS producer stated this shall go Platinum very quickly. A small sample is on our site at http://hislovestreet.com/ his CD shall be on sale Octiber 1st 2011 also join us on face book and his Debut is in Denver September 28th 2011 at Lannie’s Clocktower Cabaret.
Friday, August 19, 2011
Dream The Dream.
Many have said during my vision to open a homeless hotel; that it is too big of a dream and I was not realistic enough and it would never happen. But you see when God place’s a vision and a dream in your heart “Trust in Him With all Thy Heart” he shall open doors that many can’t and close the wrong doors. We are filming the “Early Show” and had a hug article in The Denver Post, and working with The Ellen DeGeneres and The New Rosie O’Donnell Show that shall get the word out to open the doors of “His Love Street Hotel for the homeless. And for years I seen nothing happen but my faith never allowed me let go.
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Denver musician David Adebonojo (Dred Scott) strikes a chord. Trey Noran
Denver busker Dred Scott is still trying to make sense of the fact that he has gone from street musician to Internet sensation in a matter of months.
David Adebonojo, who performs under the name of the slave who unsuccessfully sued to free himself and his family, is something of an institution in downtown Denver. Over the past five years, his bluesy acoustic covers of popular songs, including Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On" and Prince's "Purple Rain," have drawn a following among passers-by intrigued by the talent of a homeless musician.
But in the past four weeks, his audience has become international. YouTube clips of his performance have collected more than 500,000 clicks since early July.
The man who galvanized
Visit Reverb for additional photos and a recent video performance. (Photos by Evan Semon, Special to The Denver Post )his career is also a local fan: Denver musician and producer Tyler Ward, who first heard "this amazing voice" one evening after having dinner downtown.
Ward walked toward the singer and found a man whose appearance suggested a streetworn, dreadlocked version of actor Don Cheadle. Scott's forearms were raked with scars, muddled by tattoos and stubbled with knotted souvenirs of the untreated infections common among the chronically homeless.
But his eyes were clear and direct, and in his backpack was a copy of "Devils of Loudun," Aldous Huxley's nonfiction novel about demonic possession. Scott's voice was steady and powerful as he sang.
"I listened for 20 minutes and started talking to him," Ward says.
Scott gave him a precis of his recent life, hopping from one homeless shelter to another.
Ward was sold. He teamed up with Trey Noran, a minister who helps Denver's homeless through outreach group His Love Street, and arranged to record an extended-play disc of covers called "Live From the 16th Street Mall." Sales would go to His Love Street to help Scott and other homeless people. The videos went viral. To date, Scott's take on "Purple Rain" has earned a half-million views.
. The son of Nigerian-born pediatrician and author Festus Adebonojo and Episcopal priest Mary Adebonojo, Scott was born in San Francisco. He grew up in Philadelphia, spent a year or two at a boarding school in Nigeria and returned to the U.S. His cousin taught him to play the guitar.
"I sang for fun, but I didn't think I had a talent for music," he said.
He listened to music by Cab Calloway, Robert Johnson, Duke Ellington, Otis Redding, Stevie Wonder, Jimi Hendrix, Scott Joplin "because the music I tend to listen to is out (for) at least 10 years."
After high school, Scott went to a community college near Sacramento, Calif., "the most boring place to live in California," he
Special to The Denver Post )said, "but ever since I'd moved back from Nigeria, I felt like a fish out of water anyway, like someone who wasn't American. Americans are, in a lot of ways, proud to be idiots."
To the dismay of his parents — his father graduated from Harvard; his mother from Yale — he studied automotive technology, thinking about becoming a mechanic.
At about the same time, between 1986 and 1989, Scott embraced the Grateful Dead. He joined the small legion of Deadheads following the band from concert to concert. When he recounts the 1980s, it's as "the year Jerry (Garcia) got sick," or "the year a bunch of shows got canceled."
After getting caught selling LSD at a Dead concert in Massachusetts, he served some prison time. That launched a cycle of using and selling drugs, getting arrested and serving time — something he describes as "catching a case."
He caught more cases in Florida, in Minnesota, in California and, starting in 1996, caught a half-dozen more cases in Colorado. Most were misdemeanors, but from 1998 to 2006, he served a prison term and then spent time in a halfway house, on drug-related felony charges.
"When I got out in 2006, I had a stack of music I'd written in prison but very little in the way of marketable skills," Scott said.
He moved to a unit in a run-down Aurora apartment building riddled with bedbugs but lost his room after falling behind in rent. He took his guitar to downtown Denver to busk on the 16th Street Mall. At night, he slept at homeless shelters or squatted in an abandoned building.
Scott became something of an institution on the downtown mall and beyond. The Sunday brunch crowd at Racine's, a short hike from downtown, knew his music and sometimes gave him money.
"Our guests seemed to really enjoy his music because he was so good," said Lee Goodfriend, one of Racine's owners. "And he was super-nice."
On good days, he brought in lots of cash. But on bad days, he'd earn "maybe a dollar, and then a string would break," or someone would steal his guitar.
"I've been through half a dozen guitars," Scott said.
"The last one was stolen. I got this one from a church outreach."
A breakthrough
Then Tyler Ward approached him in late June. Would Scott give him permission to make a video of a couple of performances and post them on Tyler's Internet music channel?
"I was like, yeah, yeah, that sounds really cool, but I don't even have an e-mail address," Scott said. He was surprised when Ward chased him down a few days later, recording equipment in tow.
Ward wasted no time in making an extended play recording of Scott covering "What's Going On" and "Purple Rain."
hen he posted the videos, Scott's bluesy, sorrowful take on Prince's song got more than 507,000 clicks and more than 1,000 purchases through iTunes. Reporters started calling. Ward asked Noran, of His Love Street, to shepherd Scott's media inquiries and help Scott with logistics.
"When I gave Dred the checks from iTunes, I was a little worried," Noran said, "but when I asked him about the checks two days later, he pulled them out of his pocket. Someone else would've cashed them and spent it."
They deposited the money in a new bank account. Scott found an apartment in Aurora where he's staying temporarily. Lannie Garrett, whose Lannie's Clocktower Cabaret is a venue for edgy, unconventional music, arranged for Scott to perform there Sept. 28.
Interviews and articles began popping up on local media. CBN, the Christian Broadcasting Network, wanted an interview. CNN called, too.
So did Prince's legal representatives, telling Ward to take down Scott's version of "Purple Rain." That stopped the iTunes checks but also frustrated Scott's online fan base.
"I'm crying you guys because I want to buy his album and help him but I can't," wrote fffunfarm on Ward's YouTube channel.
"Get him off the streets."
Disappointed by the injunction, Scott is philosophical.
"You have to play songs that got a lot of airplay so people will say, 'Oh, that's my favorite song' and give you money. But I have my own music. One of the depressing things about the 20th century is the mass media saying if you haven't heard something on the radio, then it's not worth listening to."
Garrett plans to give him a chance to prove the mass media wrong. She worries a little about how Scott will handle the barrage of attention.
Earlier this year, Ted Williams, another homeless man, found himself a national celebrity when a YouTube video called him the Man With The Golden Voice. Williams received offers of radio jobs but quit rehab and fell into obscurity.
"I think sudden fame would be tough for anyone, but I think Dred would do OK, as long as it's about the music," Ward said.
http://www.denverpost.com/movies/ci_18596631
Read more: Denver musician David Adebonojo (Dred Scott) strikes a chord - The Denver Post http://www.denverpost.com/movies/ci_18596631#ixzz1TuC5WZbX
Read The Denver Post's Terms of Use of its content: http://www.denverpost.com/termsofuse
David Adebonojo, who performs under the name of the slave who unsuccessfully sued to free himself and his family, is something of an institution in downtown Denver. Over the past five years, his bluesy acoustic covers of popular songs, including Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On" and Prince's "Purple Rain," have drawn a following among passers-by intrigued by the talent of a homeless musician.
But in the past four weeks, his audience has become international. YouTube clips of his performance have collected more than 500,000 clicks since early July.
The man who galvanized
Visit Reverb for additional photos and a recent video performance. (Photos by Evan Semon, Special to The Denver Post )his career is also a local fan: Denver musician and producer Tyler Ward, who first heard "this amazing voice" one evening after having dinner downtown.
Ward walked toward the singer and found a man whose appearance suggested a streetworn, dreadlocked version of actor Don Cheadle. Scott's forearms were raked with scars, muddled by tattoos and stubbled with knotted souvenirs of the untreated infections common among the chronically homeless.
But his eyes were clear and direct, and in his backpack was a copy of "Devils of Loudun," Aldous Huxley's nonfiction novel about demonic possession. Scott's voice was steady and powerful as he sang.
"I listened for 20 minutes and started talking to him," Ward says.
Scott gave him a precis of his recent life, hopping from one homeless shelter to another.
Ward was sold. He teamed up with Trey Noran, a minister who helps Denver's homeless through outreach group His Love Street, and arranged to record an extended-play disc of covers called "Live From the 16th Street Mall." Sales would go to His Love Street to help Scott and other homeless people. The videos went viral. To date, Scott's take on "Purple Rain" has earned a half-million views.
. The son of Nigerian-born pediatrician and author Festus Adebonojo and Episcopal priest Mary Adebonojo, Scott was born in San Francisco. He grew up in Philadelphia, spent a year or two at a boarding school in Nigeria and returned to the U.S. His cousin taught him to play the guitar.
"I sang for fun, but I didn't think I had a talent for music," he said.
He listened to music by Cab Calloway, Robert Johnson, Duke Ellington, Otis Redding, Stevie Wonder, Jimi Hendrix, Scott Joplin "because the music I tend to listen to is out (for) at least 10 years."
After high school, Scott went to a community college near Sacramento, Calif., "the most boring place to live in California," he
Special to The Denver Post )said, "but ever since I'd moved back from Nigeria, I felt like a fish out of water anyway, like someone who wasn't American. Americans are, in a lot of ways, proud to be idiots."
To the dismay of his parents — his father graduated from Harvard; his mother from Yale — he studied automotive technology, thinking about becoming a mechanic.
At about the same time, between 1986 and 1989, Scott embraced the Grateful Dead. He joined the small legion of Deadheads following the band from concert to concert. When he recounts the 1980s, it's as "the year Jerry (Garcia) got sick," or "the year a bunch of shows got canceled."
After getting caught selling LSD at a Dead concert in Massachusetts, he served some prison time. That launched a cycle of using and selling drugs, getting arrested and serving time — something he describes as "catching a case."
He caught more cases in Florida, in Minnesota, in California and, starting in 1996, caught a half-dozen more cases in Colorado. Most were misdemeanors, but from 1998 to 2006, he served a prison term and then spent time in a halfway house, on drug-related felony charges.
"When I got out in 2006, I had a stack of music I'd written in prison but very little in the way of marketable skills," Scott said.
He moved to a unit in a run-down Aurora apartment building riddled with bedbugs but lost his room after falling behind in rent. He took his guitar to downtown Denver to busk on the 16th Street Mall. At night, he slept at homeless shelters or squatted in an abandoned building.
Scott became something of an institution on the downtown mall and beyond. The Sunday brunch crowd at Racine's, a short hike from downtown, knew his music and sometimes gave him money.
"Our guests seemed to really enjoy his music because he was so good," said Lee Goodfriend, one of Racine's owners. "And he was super-nice."
On good days, he brought in lots of cash. But on bad days, he'd earn "maybe a dollar, and then a string would break," or someone would steal his guitar.
"I've been through half a dozen guitars," Scott said.
"The last one was stolen. I got this one from a church outreach."
A breakthrough
Then Tyler Ward approached him in late June. Would Scott give him permission to make a video of a couple of performances and post them on Tyler's Internet music channel?
"I was like, yeah, yeah, that sounds really cool, but I don't even have an e-mail address," Scott said. He was surprised when Ward chased him down a few days later, recording equipment in tow.
Ward wasted no time in making an extended play recording of Scott covering "What's Going On" and "Purple Rain."
hen he posted the videos, Scott's bluesy, sorrowful take on Prince's song got more than 507,000 clicks and more than 1,000 purchases through iTunes. Reporters started calling. Ward asked Noran, of His Love Street, to shepherd Scott's media inquiries and help Scott with logistics.
"When I gave Dred the checks from iTunes, I was a little worried," Noran said, "but when I asked him about the checks two days later, he pulled them out of his pocket. Someone else would've cashed them and spent it."
They deposited the money in a new bank account. Scott found an apartment in Aurora where he's staying temporarily. Lannie Garrett, whose Lannie's Clocktower Cabaret is a venue for edgy, unconventional music, arranged for Scott to perform there Sept. 28.
Interviews and articles began popping up on local media. CBN, the Christian Broadcasting Network, wanted an interview. CNN called, too.
So did Prince's legal representatives, telling Ward to take down Scott's version of "Purple Rain." That stopped the iTunes checks but also frustrated Scott's online fan base.
"I'm crying you guys because I want to buy his album and help him but I can't," wrote fffunfarm on Ward's YouTube channel.
"Get him off the streets."
Disappointed by the injunction, Scott is philosophical.
"You have to play songs that got a lot of airplay so people will say, 'Oh, that's my favorite song' and give you money. But I have my own music. One of the depressing things about the 20th century is the mass media saying if you haven't heard something on the radio, then it's not worth listening to."
Garrett plans to give him a chance to prove the mass media wrong. She worries a little about how Scott will handle the barrage of attention.
Earlier this year, Ted Williams, another homeless man, found himself a national celebrity when a YouTube video called him the Man With The Golden Voice. Williams received offers of radio jobs but quit rehab and fell into obscurity.
http://www.denverpost.com/movies/ci_18596631
Read more: Denver musician David Adebonojo (Dred Scott) strikes a chord - The Denver Post http://www.denverpost.com/movies/ci_18596631#ixzz1TuC5WZbX
Read The Denver Post's Terms of Use of its content: http://www.denverpost.com/termsofuse
Friday, July 29, 2011
Dred Scott and His Love Street Fundraiser.
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Dred Scott aka David Adebonojo
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Dred Scott and His Love Street.
DENVER (CBS4) – A homeless Denver man who plays regularly on the 16th Street Mall has made it onto iTunes.
David Adebonojo, who uses the performance name Dred Scott, moved to Denver sixteen years ago for the music scene. He found work and had an apartment. But then things went wrong. The apartment was infested by bed bugs.
“I couldn’t work because I wasn’t sleeping. Then I got behind in rent,” he told CBS4 on Friday from his performance spot on the mall.
Now he does what he loves full time, but income is inconsistent.
“I’ve come out here, set up, played, broke a string, made a dollar, and left. I’ve come out here, played, and made $300,” he said.
Three weeks ago local musician Tyler Ward stumbled onto Adebonojo’s talent.
“I had dinner on 16th street mall and right after I came outside I was walking outside and on the corner, I heard this amazing sound and was like, ‘Who is that?’” Ward told CBS4.
Joining forces with a Christian outreach group His Love Street, Ward shot a video for YouTube of Adebonojo performing. This week they got an EP of Dred Scott’s music on iTunes. It has already generated almost $2,000.
It wasn’t enough right away to take him off the streets, but Adebonojo is hopeful the help he’s getting to get his music heard will change his life for the better.
“That’s what these guys have done for me … you know, take my music and make it available to larger groups of people,” said Adebonojo, who says the Internet was the “next logical step” for him but he didn’t know enough about the web to figure out how to make it happen.
Watch Dred Scott perform Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On?” in its entirety in the video below:
Ward, who runs an online independent label, would love to see Adebonojo get popular enough to be able to get off the streets and into clubs, and perhaps tour.
Adebonojo says his music is something akin to “anti-pop.”
“Pop is like the majority of everything so there has to be a counterweight on it. There has to be serious music. And I provide serious music.”
LINK: Dred Scott – Live From 16th Street Mall (on iTunes)
LINK: His Love Street http://hislovestreet.com/
David Adebonojo, who uses the performance name Dred Scott, moved to Denver sixteen years ago for the music scene. He found work and had an apartment. But then things went wrong. The apartment was infested by bed bugs.
“I couldn’t work because I wasn’t sleeping. Then I got behind in rent,” he told CBS4 on Friday from his performance spot on the mall.
Now he does what he loves full time, but income is inconsistent.
“I’ve come out here, set up, played, broke a string, made a dollar, and left. I’ve come out here, played, and made $300,” he said.
Three weeks ago local musician Tyler Ward stumbled onto Adebonojo’s talent.
“I had dinner on 16th street mall and right after I came outside I was walking outside and on the corner, I heard this amazing sound and was like, ‘Who is that?’” Ward told CBS4.
Joining forces with a Christian outreach group His Love Street, Ward shot a video for YouTube of Adebonojo performing. This week they got an EP of Dred Scott’s music on iTunes. It has already generated almost $2,000.
It wasn’t enough right away to take him off the streets, but Adebonojo is hopeful the help he’s getting to get his music heard will change his life for the better.
“That’s what these guys have done for me … you know, take my music and make it available to larger groups of people,” said Adebonojo, who says the Internet was the “next logical step” for him but he didn’t know enough about the web to figure out how to make it happen.
Watch Dred Scott perform Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On?” in its entirety in the video below:
Ward, who runs an online independent label, would love to see Adebonojo get popular enough to be able to get off the streets and into clubs, and perhaps tour.
Adebonojo says his music is something akin to “anti-pop.”
“Pop is like the majority of everything so there has to be a counterweight on it. There has to be serious music. And I provide serious music.”
LINK: Dred Scott – Live From 16th Street Mall (on iTunes)
LINK: His Love Street http://hislovestreet.com/
LINK: Tyler Ward Music
Sunday, July 17, 2011
Dred Scott, Tyler Ward, Trey Noran and His Love Street.
Trey Louis Noran via Dred Scott
Tyler and I would like to thank you for your support of Dred, and soon we pray that he shall be on his way. Tyler Ward, and I came together with His Love Street, to help Dred and others who sleep on the streets and hope for a chance to show the world their talents; and get a home of their own. http://hislovestreet.com/
Help us make a change in a life. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goU_1m2pclk
http://blogs.westword.com/backbeat/2011/07/dred-scott-homeless-busker-freaking-good.php
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Tyler and I would like to thank you for your support of Dred, and soon we pray that he shall be on his way. Tyler Ward, and I came together with His Love Street, to help Dred and others who sleep on the streets and hope for a chance to show the world their talents; and get a home of their own. http://hislovestreet.com/
Help us make a change in a life. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goU_1m2pclk
http://blogs.westword.com/backbeat/2011/07/dred-scott-homeless-busker-freaking-good.php
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Let's stop homelessness.
Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count takes place every two years.Los Angeles has the highest street homeless population in the nation. Every day we see men, women and children without a place to call home. We don’t have to accept homelessness as an unsolvable problem. With your help we can end homelessness.
In the fight to end homelessness, we work to connect those in need to emergency shelters, transitional housing, overnight shelters and prevention programs, with the end goal of placing them in permanent housing. In 2011, we counted and estimated 69,340 homeless persons in Los Angeles County. Tabulating numbers is not the end goal – knowing who and where our homeless populations are allows us to target our resources more effectively to get people housed. The Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count is about building stronger communities where everyone is safe, secure and housed.
How homelessness is defined by HUD (The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development):
A homeless person is: An individual or family who lacks a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence and An individual or family who has a primary nighttime residence that is:
A supervised publicly or privately operated shelter designed to provide temporary living accommodations (including welfare hotels, congregate shelters, and transitional housing for the mentally ill);
An institution that provides a temporary residence for individuals intended to be institutionalized; or
A public or private place not designed for, or ordinarily used as, regular sleeping accommodations for human beings.
This term does not include any individual imprisoned or otherwise detained under an Act of Congress or a State law.
Monday, July 4, 2011
Dred Scott July 4th 2011.
Monday, June 27, 2011
Homeless Climbing In New York and in the USA.
State of the Homeless 2011
April 11, 2011
By Patrick Markee, Senior Policy Analyst, and Giselle Routhier, Policy Analyst
In the midst of high unemployment, the steady loss of affordable housing, and years of failed policies under the Bloomberg administration, an all-time high number of New Yorkers turned to homeless shelters last year and the New York City homeless shelter population is now larger than at any time since the City began keeping records.
An all-time record 119,553 homeless people - including 44,888 children - slept in municipal shelters in FY 2010, an 8 percent increase from the previous year and a 37 percent increase from FY 2002 when Mayor Bloomberg took office.
This includes a record 28,977 families, a 15 percent increase from the previous year and a remarkable 81 percent more than when Mayor Bloomberg took office.
And by the end of February of this year, the nightly census of homeless adults and children in the municipal shelter system - 39,542 people - reached the highest point ever recorded.
In the midst of this historic homelessness crisis, the Bloomberg administration's only response has been to defend its failed policies. Unlike previous New York City mayors from Ed Koch through Rudy Giuliani, Mayor Bloomberg refuses to use proven and cost-effective Federal housing programs to move homeless families from shelters to stable homes. Instead, for more than six years the Bloomberg administration has replaced proven Federal programs with a series of untested, time-limited subsidies like the recently-terminated Advantage program.
However, City data show that these flawed time-limited subsidies have forced thousands of formerly-homeless children and families back into the shelter system and homelessness, at tremendous expense to taxpayers.
Since the Bloomberg administration cut off homeless families from proven Federal housing programs and replaced them with time-limited subsidies like the Advantage program, more than twice as many formerly-homeless families enter the shelter system each year.
In the seven years before Mayor Bloomberg's misguided policy change, an average of 2,003 formerly-homeless "repeat families" entered the shelter system each year, but in the five years after the change, an average of 5,020 "repeat families" entered the shelter system each year, a remarkable 151 percent increase. And in FY 2010, an all-time record 6,294 "repeat families" entered the shelter system.
Before the Mayor's time-limited subsidies were implemented, only one in four families (25 percent) entering the shelter system was formerly-homeless, while now nearly half (47 percent) of all families entering the shelter system was once homeless
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April 11, 2011
By Patrick Markee, Senior Policy Analyst, and Giselle Routhier, Policy Analyst
In the midst of high unemployment, the steady loss of affordable housing, and years of failed policies under the Bloomberg administration, an all-time high number of New Yorkers turned to homeless shelters last year and the New York City homeless shelter population is now larger than at any time since the City began keeping records.
An all-time record 119,553 homeless people - including 44,888 children - slept in municipal shelters in FY 2010, an 8 percent increase from the previous year and a 37 percent increase from FY 2002 when Mayor Bloomberg took office.
This includes a record 28,977 families, a 15 percent increase from the previous year and a remarkable 81 percent more than when Mayor Bloomberg took office.
And by the end of February of this year, the nightly census of homeless adults and children in the municipal shelter system - 39,542 people - reached the highest point ever recorded.
In the midst of this historic homelessness crisis, the Bloomberg administration's only response has been to defend its failed policies. Unlike previous New York City mayors from Ed Koch through Rudy Giuliani, Mayor Bloomberg refuses to use proven and cost-effective Federal housing programs to move homeless families from shelters to stable homes. Instead, for more than six years the Bloomberg administration has replaced proven Federal programs with a series of untested, time-limited subsidies like the recently-terminated Advantage program.
However, City data show that these flawed time-limited subsidies have forced thousands of formerly-homeless children and families back into the shelter system and homelessness, at tremendous expense to taxpayers.
Since the Bloomberg administration cut off homeless families from proven Federal housing programs and replaced them with time-limited subsidies like the Advantage program, more than twice as many formerly-homeless families enter the shelter system each year.
In the seven years before Mayor Bloomberg's misguided policy change, an average of 2,003 formerly-homeless "repeat families" entered the shelter system each year, but in the five years after the change, an average of 5,020 "repeat families" entered the shelter system each year, a remarkable 151 percent increase. And in FY 2010, an all-time record 6,294 "repeat families" entered the shelter system.
Before the Mayor's time-limited subsidies were implemented, only one in four families (25 percent) entering the shelter system was formerly-homeless, while now nearly half (47 percent) of all families entering the shelter system was once homeless
Friday, June 17, 2011
Homeless Project.
Need favor from God in your life? Proverbs 28:27 He who gives to the poor will lack nothing. I have worked very, hard for the last three years and we are less than two thousand dollars away from reaching our goal for a project that shall glorify God almighty; also help many who no longer can see hope. We are a 501c-3 Non-profit. If my face book friends would all give any amount we can bring this vision alive. Donate at http://hislovestreet.com/ (no gift is too small).
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Compassion, Is Not Compassion; Unless You Get Involved And Do God's Will.
"Sorrow for the sufferings or trouble of another or others, accompanied by an urge to help; deep sympathy" Today with the world growing smaller and getting crowded it is almost impossible for anyone to learn true compassion unless it is taught to them while young, or it was born into them...into their spirit.
God demands His people to have compassion on others. Jesus' second comandment was "You shall love your nieghbor as thyself".
The word "nieghbor" doesn't just mean the guy who lives next door, it means EVERYONE!
Not just the people that you want to be kind to....not just the ones you like already and know already...but EVERYONE.
Some of you reading this may say "I can't do that it's not who I am"
This is why God gets angry...we live in our own self-made worlds leaving God outside knocking on our door but we only hear His knock when we are going through something ourselves and need Him.
We get hurt and want to shut others off from our world...we can't see past our hurt
God loves us so much but we turn our heads from Him when it's not convenient...because when we turn our heads away from a fellow human being, we are turning away from God.
In the Bible it says God is a jealous God. He wants all our love...and he wants you to love everyone he created.
Life is not about the worldly things you can get or achieve or being thought of as a great person. Life is about loving God and others...period.
A person who laughs at God and His followers is only a person who is lacking knowledge and only listens to themselves or others who think the same way because it makes them feel safe in the world they believe is true. " Make A Difference In A Life " His Love Street; http://hislovestreet.com/
Compassion, Is Not Compassion; Unless You Get Involved And Do God's Will.
God demands His people to have compassion on others. Jesus' second comandment was "You shall love your nieghbor as thyself".
The word "nieghbor" doesn't just mean the guy who lives next door, it means EVERYONE!
Not just the people that you want to be kind to....not just the ones you like already and know already...but EVERYONE.
Some of you reading this may say "I can't do that it's not who I am"
This is why God gets angry...we live in our own self-made worlds leaving God outside knocking on our door but we only hear His knock when we are going through something ourselves and need Him.
We get hurt and want to shut others off from our world...we can't see past our hurt
God loves us so much but we turn our heads from Him when it's not convenient...because when we turn our heads away from a fellow human being, we are turning away from God.
In the Bible it says God is a jealous God. He wants all our love...and he wants you to love everyone he created.
Life is not about the worldly things you can get or achieve or being thought of as a great person. Life is about loving God and others...period.
A person who laughs at God and His followers is only a person who is lacking knowledge and only listens to themselves or others who think the same way because it makes them feel safe in the world they believe is true. " Make A Difference In A Life " His Love Street; http://hislovestreet.com/
Monday, May 30, 2011
Female Veterans Face Unemployment and Homelessness
The Huffington Post is reporting that despite the growing number of women serving in the armed forces, female veterans are still less accepted on the home front. American communities more readily accept -- and offer help to -- male service members, while female veterans are left to navigate unemployment, homlessness, hunger, and physical and mental abuse alone after returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. According to the article, despite fighting and dying in wars, women are still not accorded the same level of respect as their male counterparts. There are some organizations, like U.S. Vets Initiative in California, that are trying to help female veterans, but they are few and far between.
Female veterans also face "a shocking amount" of sexual harassment and sexual assault, so many are returning with sexual trauma on top of post-traumatic stress disorder. Talk about being kicked while down. We have got to do more to protect women while they are abroad and to help them get back on their feet when they return home. For any veteran, male or female, to be living on the streets after serving this country is unacceptable.
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Trinity Broadcasting-The Holy Land Experience
Saturday, May 21, 2011
A Letter from Rock Bottom.
It's not truly a bad place.The staff is kind and caring and they focus not on why you came to be here, but how to help you move forward.
A very kind soul named Emily has been the glue to hold my shattered spirit together. Listening to me without judgement and letting me cry when the emotion is too much to contain.I always thought I would be the one to help homeless people, never the flip side.
Too many events in my life have made me numb and mistrustful. Now I rely on the kindness of strangers and I have to let pride fall by the wayside. This is so very difficult for me.
You never know when life will throw you a curve ball and you will end up like this.
I try to stay positive, especially around my kids. They need to see me smile. They need to know that things will be OK.
I save my tears for when they are asleep. My kids miss home, the one they knew for many years, and sometimes their emotions spill over, and it breaks my heart. Forward from here is to find a safe place, no easy task..
Consider this my journal, and MODS move where you see fit...
I have hit the bottom with no where to go but up, and ATS has been a constant for me, and right now I need the stability. I'll update when I can... Help us make a difference in a life. http://Hislovestreetministries.com/
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
A place to lay their heads: Ministry to the homeless struggles during these times.
They are the cautionary tales, lost souls destroyed by drugs, mental illness, abandonment and hopelessness.They are the ones we cross the street to avoid, their hands outstretched and pleading, their eyes hollow, their clothes tattered, their appearance unsettling. It is because of them that we count our blessings.In passing and with a sharp twinge of guilt, we want to help, "if only we could."
Seth Murphy understands that feeling, but rather than walking by, he's doing something about it.
In July 2003, Murphy was working at a homeless shelter in Blue Mountain when it changed its focus and became a drug rehabilitation center. Many of those living at the shelter were once more put back on the streets.Murphy, along with a friend he'd been working alongside, took two of the men they had come to know and trust to stay temporarily at his mother's house in Oxford, where they slept on the back porch.
"That's how it all got started … kind of by accident," says Murphy, 36. "By the end of the week, we had seven homeless guys sleeping out on her porch. We were just supplying them with the basic needs — food, clothing and a place to lay their head."
Out of those humble beginnings, a ministry was born. Servant of Jesus Church and Shelter offers a second chance to men, women and children who are looking for a way to survive by getting off the streets and back on their feet.
"The homeless are really our brothers and sisters, fathers and mothers. They are our children," Murphy says. "All they want are their lives back, and maybe a little respect along the way."
Tim Skinner met Murphy a few years ago while trying to find a suitable shelter for an estranged relative battling drug addiction. Everywhere he looked, Skinner found only dead ends. That was until he heard about Servant of Jesus Church.
"Seth will take the people no one else will," Skinner says. "He's just got a heart and a passion for helping people."Those include "several" veterans, the mentally ill, those battling drug addiction, the unemployed and several who are waiting on disability claims from the state.
In 2004, Murphy and his wife, Leigh, with the help of donations from friends, family and private entities as well as assistance from the Salvation Army, Center of Hope and Word Alive, moved the growing ministry into two buildings along McCoy Avenue in Blue Mountain — one for men, another for women and children. The ministry also has a third building along the same street that serves as a church, where everyone gathers for meals and weekly worship services."We've pretty much taken over the whole street," Murphy says with a slight laugh. "I'd like to see its name changed from McCoy Avenue to Jesus Way."
But times are tough and getting tougher.Relying heavily on donations from "regular working folks" who, because of the recent economic shift are finding it harder to give, maintaining Servant of Jesus has grown increasingly difficult. Those who live in the shelters are having trouble finding work, thus they can't give back. Meanwhile, the bills are piling up, and sometimes it's a struggle just keeping the electricity on. "But we're still here, doing whatever it takes," Murphy says.
Providing shelter for the homeless isn't Murphy's lone battle. He also has kidney problems and is on dialysis three times a week. During one of his visits to Dr. V.M. Reddy, who practices internal medicine at the Anniston Wellness Center, Murphy started talking about the shelter and its many needs. Reddy, who is from India, was intrigued. "This is our community now," Reddy says. "(The homeless) are part of our familym and I wanted to help any way that I can."
After viewing a video Murphy compiled about his ministry, Reddy made a donation that was instrumental in helping Murphy open one of the buildings he rents on McCoy. Several of Murphy's residents have since become patients of Reddy's."Seth's doing the best he can," Reddy says. "The community needs to also step forward. Seth's doing the hard work. It's easy to give money, but to actually go out and help these people … that's impressive, and should be rewarded."
Friday, May 13, 2011
Vets suffer unemployment, foreclosures, homelessness and disabilities.
Coming home to a different kind of war. Please realize tht homeless is becoming huge. http://Hislovestreetministries.com/ Donate and help make a difference.
May 10, 2011
Matt McColl, combat-wounded Iraq war veteran who experienced homelessness after being discharged for his wounds.
In 2010, over 20 percent of young Iraq and Afghanistan U.S. war veterans were unemployed, while over 75,000 were homeless. In addition, the Department of Veterans Affairs reported a spike in suicides last year of vets between the ages of 18 and 29. This is because of multiple deployments, time away from families, the brutality we witness inflicted on the occupied peoples of Iraq and Afghanistan and the complete neglect of our mental health when we return.
When we come back from fighting for a lie that only benefits Wall Street and the banks, we enter a different kind of war. After deploying and dodging bullets, IEDs and indirect fire, we find ourselves dodging unemployment lines, foreclosures and a dysfunctional Veterans Affairs system where it takes endless amounts of time to access the care that we have earned.
The same banks that profit off the wars, that profit off our deaths, wounds, suffering and time away from our families, target us when we return home. USA Today reported Feb. 4 that more than 20,000 veterans, active-duty troops and reservists who took out “special” government-backed mortgages had their homes taken away last year—the highest number since 2003.
We can clearly see in the wake of the destruction wreaked upon the people of Iraq and Afghanistan the effects that these wars and occupations are having on us at home. We can clearly see that this government does not care about its own vets. So why are we still in a love affair with the idea that it ever cared about liberating the peoples of Iraq and Afghanistan?
Just imagine the price we pay for the wars—$700 million a day—being pumped back into programs to fund real human needs, not the profit drive of big banks, weapons contractors and oil giants.
May 10, 2011
Matt McColl, combat-wounded Iraq war veteran who experienced homelessness after being discharged for his wounds.
In 2010, over 20 percent of young Iraq and Afghanistan U.S. war veterans were unemployed, while over 75,000 were homeless. In addition, the Department of Veterans Affairs reported a spike in suicides last year of vets between the ages of 18 and 29. This is because of multiple deployments, time away from families, the brutality we witness inflicted on the occupied peoples of Iraq and Afghanistan and the complete neglect of our mental health when we return.
When we come back from fighting for a lie that only benefits Wall Street and the banks, we enter a different kind of war. After deploying and dodging bullets, IEDs and indirect fire, we find ourselves dodging unemployment lines, foreclosures and a dysfunctional Veterans Affairs system where it takes endless amounts of time to access the care that we have earned.
The same banks that profit off the wars, that profit off our deaths, wounds, suffering and time away from our families, target us when we return home. USA Today reported Feb. 4 that more than 20,000 veterans, active-duty troops and reservists who took out “special” government-backed mortgages had their homes taken away last year—the highest number since 2003.
We can clearly see in the wake of the destruction wreaked upon the people of Iraq and Afghanistan the effects that these wars and occupations are having on us at home. We can clearly see that this government does not care about its own vets. So why are we still in a love affair with the idea that it ever cared about liberating the peoples of Iraq and Afghanistan?
Just imagine the price we pay for the wars—$700 million a day—being pumped back into programs to fund real human needs, not the profit drive of big banks, weapons contractors and oil giants.
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Spirit Clothing-Homeless
Spirit Clothing is a Non-profit 501c3 that turns your old clothing into money. We auction your unwanted clothing for the homeless to feed, shelter and employ. We accept all clothing in good condition.
Those outfits that no longer fit or have no desire for anymore please send to us. http://Lovestreethotel.com/
Send Items.
His Love Street
PO. Box 9613
Denver, Colorado 80209
Help us make a difference in a life.
Those outfits that no longer fit or have no desire for anymore please send to us. http://Lovestreethotel.com/
Send Items.
His Love Street
PO. Box 9613
Denver, Colorado 80209
Help us make a difference in a life.
Monday, May 9, 2011
Blessed In and Out.
What an awesome God; I am thankful for my family, and for my brother Tim Tebow and his wins for Denver this coming year. Tim, is blessed for his love of God as well as my sister and entire family. This is the year that the Lord has made for me and "His Love Street Ministries" watch, for us soon nation-wide as God is opening doors for for HIS GLORY.
Join us at http://Hislovestreetministries.com/
Join us at http://Hislovestreetministries.com/
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
His Love Street Ministries-Denver Colorado
A Non-profit 501(c)3 for a better life in our community. To donate http://Hislovestreetministries.com/
We are not a religious organization but an organization that realizes the needof many living on the streets who cannot see hope. Our mission is to give and to restore hope as well as to feed, shelter and help with employment to eventually enable the homeless to establish a home of their own.
Our long-term vision is to open a Homeless Hotel in Reno, Nevada and an Out-reach and pantry center in Denver area, for the last three years I have worked hard doing fund raisers. Unemployment rate in Nevada is 14.5 and almost every block away from the casino's has homeless by the thousands living underneath roads and in tunnels. Shelters are a quick fix for a short time but they do not take care of the long-term problem. Help us make a difference in a life.
We are not a religious organization but an organization that realizes the needof many living on the streets who cannot see hope. Our mission is to give and to restore hope as well as to feed, shelter and help with employment to eventually enable the homeless to establish a home of their own.
Sunday, May 1, 2011
God way, proves a great life.
Defiling God will lead to an unhappy and miserable life.
Facts: devastation, from killings to tornados, earthquakes, with countries fighting with each other and those coming here to the United States bombing our buildings and much more to come. How can I say this? It is written in Mark 13:8 Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places, and famines. These are the beginning of birth pains. As I grew up in the 60’s and 70’s we never had the Donald Trump’s and Palin’s or those fighting to keep God out of the schools and coming against the president and trying to enforce this country their way and not God’s way.
We are slowly replacing God everyday with our own needs and wants and the outcome is the results that are taking place today. All, in all I would not or could not change anyone as I do not have the power, but we are all responsible for our actions as a country which was founded on Jesus at one time. The time is now to pull here in the United States by helping our own people from New Orleans, Tuscaloosa to the homeless in our own backyard across America. What I am saying is what God has commanded in Proverbs 28:27 those who give to the poor will lack nothing,
but those who close their eyes to them receive many curses.
What I have learned in my fifty years of life is when you defined God there is a price to pay and many have died doing it their own way and not the way designed by the loving God. And why? What an awesome life; being at peace by caring and loving your neighbors, family and surroundings and giving to those who need you and doing its God way. So why do we fight God? We are seeing the results!!!!
Facts: devastation, from killings to tornados, earthquakes, with countries fighting with each other and those coming here to the United States bombing our buildings and much more to come. How can I say this? It is written in Mark 13:8 Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places, and famines. These are the beginning of birth pains. As I grew up in the 60’s and 70’s we never had the Donald Trump’s and Palin’s or those fighting to keep God out of the schools and coming against the president and trying to enforce this country their way and not God’s way.
We are slowly replacing God everyday with our own needs and wants and the outcome is the results that are taking place today. All, in all I would not or could not change anyone as I do not have the power, but we are all responsible for our actions as a country which was founded on Jesus at one time. The time is now to pull here in the United States by helping our own people from New Orleans, Tuscaloosa to the homeless in our own backyard across America. What I am saying is what God has commanded in Proverbs 28:27 those who give to the poor will lack nothing,
but those who close their eyes to them receive many curses.
What I have learned in my fifty years of life is when you defined God there is a price to pay and many have died doing it their own way and not the way designed by the loving God. And why? What an awesome life; being at peace by caring and loving your neighbors, family and surroundings and giving to those who need you and doing its God way. So why do we fight God? We are seeing the results!!!!
Thursday, April 28, 2011
William And Kate April 29th 2011. Glory to the most high "Jesus".
Congratulations to Kate and William and may they live a life for his glory of the Lord. I guess what truly saddens me is when I hear that hundreds of millions will be made from this wedding. And, I work so hard to open a small pantry and work placement center and can’t get the funds or the help even when I come in the name of the most high. But they come in the name of the Queen and the world gives ear and their money. For the blood line I have in Jesus is more powerful than any Queen or King and shall triumph at the end for I shall not be the tail but the head.
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
The Royal Wedding
Kate and William, I sit here in the States and listening to the news that millions of dollars will be given to you for your wedding pictures, stories and etc. Wow, as I pray God why would millions pay to know what dress Kate shall wear or millions to attend your wedding when so many people could use those dollars to feed, clothed and restore hope too many whom cannot see hope anymore? William your mother stood to help those around her and many say you are a lot like her.
We have worked very hard for three years to raise money for the homeless and to open a pantry and if you and Kate would donate pictures, clothing anything to auction we could open the doors to our pantry. The United States loves the fairy book story of you and Kate and this power was given to you from above please use the power to help us and others to make the world a better place but most of all for the glory of most high whom gave your life and his love.
God bless you richly. http://Hislovestreetministries.com/
We have worked very hard for three years to raise money for the homeless and to open a pantry and if you and Kate would donate pictures, clothing anything to auction we could open the doors to our pantry. The United States loves the fairy book story of you and Kate and this power was given to you from above please use the power to help us and others to make the world a better place but most of all for the glory of most high whom gave your life and his love.
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Life without God has nothing.
Friday, April 22, 2011
HIS LOVE STREET HOTEL-Sharing The Love Of Christ.
His Love Street Hotel and Denver Out-reach pantry and work center.
In The Name Of the Almighty “Jesus” I ASK that this Easter that you will donate for the glory of the one whom died so we could have this beautiful life. He came for us the rich and the poor. I ask you to help us make a difference in a life and glorify his mission. I shall not beg for God; for giving for the Lord comes back a hundred-f...old and what a privilege to do his will and his work. The homeless can’t ask you to help them; but don’t we ALL deserve a bed tonight to sleep in? It’s not only his commandment in Proverb’s 28 to help feed the poor; but for the life he allows us to have please return to him. If you don’t believe in this cause PLEASE DELETE US for I come in the name of JESUS, the one whom has sent me. http://Hislovestreetministries.com/
His Love Street Ministries.
His Love Street Ministries, the title says it all "HIS LOVE" thank you for loving and dying for us. His Love Street Ministries would like to say thank you for your support and affords to feed the homeless. And by the power of the almighty God we shall open our pantry and work center soon.
To donate http://Hislovestreetministries.com/
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
The Power Of Words.
The Power Of Words; well many said to show real pictures of those hungry, hurt and dying on the street corners to touch people and ignite the human spirit to help your fellow man. Well, I did just that and not one person was touched or donated to make their lives better. Then today I saw a great video of a man that was blind and homeless and could not see this beautiful world as we do. So here it is, search your hearts today and please donate to help us give hope to the many that are dying and are so mentally lost due to being the streets.
Seriously, on a daily basis meet people who use to be homeless. Think it can’t happen to you? Think again. I get letters from ex-millionaires to school teachers that have lost everything. If only my face book friends would donate we could start making a difference. Ok; Proverbs 28 says “That unless a man helps the poor he shall incur many curses.” Ok let’s say you don’t believe in God, then believe in your fellow man and think where and how you would be if this ever becomes you. http://Lovestreethotel.com/
Monday, April 18, 2011
Before You Become Homeless.
Today, it is foolish for men and women to live with their head in the sand when it comes to their future. All marriages end one of two ways--Either by death or divorce. I have heard the following statement quoted and repeated time and time again, "We are all just one paycheck away from becoming homeless." Yet, most people play Russian Roulette with their futures, refusing to acknowledge that a sudden illness or a loss of a job could create a chain of events that ultimately can lead to homelessness.
For those who are now finding themselves homeless, I am truly saddened. Yet, there were thousands of things that could have done before getting to that point. Utilizing these options could have kept many from becoming homeless. These are the issues that need to be addressed today: What to do before you become homeless.
The first, and most important point is a reality check. Homelessness is happening to middle and upper-middle class white collar workers at an ever increasing rate. Even corporate executives and professional people are being hit hard by this phenomena. The reality check is the most important way to prevent the problem and should be done long before the crisis arises.
I believe it starts with too much house. From my research I have found that most families purchase homes that require two incomes to maintain. That is the first, and most crucial link along the homeless chain of events. Whether because of ego, or through social pressures, or status seeking, or denial, many of us today relate self worth through possessions and image. This faulty way of thinking sets people up for financial trouble, not to mention, produces stress and worry that often breaks up families, rather than bringing them together.
The old criteria used for figuring budgets is, even today, a wise path to follow: Spend no more than 25% of your income on housing. Make sure that it is net income, not gross. Trying to keep up with the Jones never brought happiness to anyone but the Jones. For married, as well as single women and men, it is crucial to plan ahead. What if , is an important question to ask yourself. What if your husband died? What if you got a divorce? What if you or your husband became ill? What if the medical bills ate all your savings? There are many questions that need to be answered. We talk about keeping a nest egg for emergencies, yet me don't take the time to create an emergency plan that can be implemented before a situation becomes a crisis. Waiting until the family is emerged in the crisis is too late. Most of the energy needed to make the critical decisions is being used up in just surviving. So, ask yourself the important questions. Decide what your savings goals are. Decide how long you try to maintain the status quo before you start to really act on your emergency plan. Do you try to maintain your normal living standard or do you put the house up for sell and try to get out from under it before it is taken away? How long can you survive on your savings before you must cut your losses and let your home go? What happens if you just walk out? Check out bankruptcy laws ahead of time. Talk to family members and ask for their input. Check with relatives and ask them for a commitment if such a crisis should hit. Can you stay with Mom, or Grandma, or Aunt Jane? Will your best friend help? What about your grown children, would they be willing to help in an emergency? Learn about all your options before it happens. Trey Noran (help us make a difference for so many that have no hope-http://Hislovestreetministries.com/
For those who are now finding themselves homeless, I am truly saddened. Yet, there were thousands of things that could have done before getting to that point. Utilizing these options could have kept many from becoming homeless. These are the issues that need to be addressed today: What to do before you become homeless.
The first, and most important point is a reality check. Homelessness is happening to middle and upper-middle class white collar workers at an ever increasing rate. Even corporate executives and professional people are being hit hard by this phenomena. The reality check is the most important way to prevent the problem and should be done long before the crisis arises.
I believe it starts with too much house. From my research I have found that most families purchase homes that require two incomes to maintain. That is the first, and most crucial link along the homeless chain of events. Whether because of ego, or through social pressures, or status seeking, or denial, many of us today relate self worth through possessions and image. This faulty way of thinking sets people up for financial trouble, not to mention, produces stress and worry that often breaks up families, rather than bringing them together.
The old criteria used for figuring budgets is, even today, a wise path to follow: Spend no more than 25% of your income on housing. Make sure that it is net income, not gross. Trying to keep up with the Jones never brought happiness to anyone but the Jones. For married, as well as single women and men, it is crucial to plan ahead. What if , is an important question to ask yourself. What if your husband died? What if you got a divorce? What if you or your husband became ill? What if the medical bills ate all your savings? There are many questions that need to be answered. We talk about keeping a nest egg for emergencies, yet me don't take the time to create an emergency plan that can be implemented before a situation becomes a crisis. Waiting until the family is emerged in the crisis is too late. Most of the energy needed to make the critical decisions is being used up in just surviving. So, ask yourself the important questions. Decide what your savings goals are. Decide how long you try to maintain the status quo before you start to really act on your emergency plan. Do you try to maintain your normal living standard or do you put the house up for sell and try to get out from under it before it is taken away? How long can you survive on your savings before you must cut your losses and let your home go? What happens if you just walk out? Check out bankruptcy laws ahead of time. Talk to family members and ask for their input. Check with relatives and ask them for a commitment if such a crisis should hit. Can you stay with Mom, or Grandma, or Aunt Jane? Will your best friend help? What about your grown children, would they be willing to help in an emergency? Learn about all your options before it happens. Trey Noran (help us make a difference for so many that have no hope-http://Hislovestreetministries.com/
Saturday, April 16, 2011
How to Help the Homeless-4 Ways to Help the Homeless.
Matthew 25:35
For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in ... (NIV)
In 2010, the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty estimated that 4.3 million people in America (1.53 million of them children), were likely to experience homelessness in a given year. While difficult to measure, the increase in the demand for shelter beds each year is a strong indicator that homelessness is on the rise, and not only in America. According to the United Nations, there are at least 150 million homeless in the world today.
If your heart has been gripped by the needs of the hungry, thirsty, strangers on the streets, here are four effective ways to help the homeless in your community.
1) Volunteer
The most productive way to get started helping the homeless is to join forces with a well-established operation. As a volunteer you will learn from those who are already making a difference, rather than repeating the mistakes of well-meaning but misguided novices. By receiving "on the job" training, our team in Brazil was able to experience the rewards of accomplishment right away.
A good place to start volunteering is at your local church. If your congregation doesn't have a homeless ministry, find a reputable organization in your city and invite church members to join you and your family in serving.
Consider partnering with Habitat for Humanity, a nonprofit, ecumenical Christian ministry that invites people of all backgrounds, races and religions to build houses together with needy families.
2) Respect
One of the best ways to help a homeless person is to show them respect. As you look into their eyes, talk to them with genuine interest, and recognize their value as an individual, you will give them a sense of dignity that they rarely experience.
My most memorable times in Brazil were the all night stays on the streets with gangs of children. We did this once a month for a while, offering medical treatments, haircuts, friendship, encouragement and prayer. We didn't have a rigid structure on those nights. We just went out and spent time with the children. We talked to them; we held their street-born babies; we brought them a hot supper. By doing this we gained their trust.
Remarkably, these kids became protective of us, warning us during the day if they detected any dangers on the streets. One day while walking through the city, a boy I had gotten to know stopped me and told me to quit wearing my particular kind of watch on the streets. He showed me how easily a thief could snatch it from my arm, and then he suggested a better, more secure type of watchband to wear.
While it's wise to exercise caution and take measures to ensure your personal safety when ministering to the homeless, by identifying with the real person behind the face on the streets, your ministry will be much more effective and rewarding. Learn additional ways to help the homeless:
3) Give
Giving is another great way to help, however, unless the Lord directs you, don't give money directly to the homeless. Cash gifts are often used to buy drugs and alcohol. Instead, make your donations to a well-known, reputable organization in your community. Many shelters and soup kitchens also welcome contributions of food, clothing and other supplies.
4) Pray
Lastly, prayer is one of the easiest and most positive ways you can help the homeless.
Because of the harshness of their lives, many homeless people are crushed in spirit. But Psalm 34:17-18 says, "The righteous cry out, and the LORD hears them; he delivers them from all their troubles. The LORD is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit." (NIV) God can use your prayers to bring deliverance and healing to broken lives.
For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in ... (NIV)
In 2010, the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty estimated that 4.3 million people in America (1.53 million of them children), were likely to experience homelessness in a given year. While difficult to measure, the increase in the demand for shelter beds each year is a strong indicator that homelessness is on the rise, and not only in America. According to the United Nations, there are at least 150 million homeless in the world today.
If your heart has been gripped by the needs of the hungry, thirsty, strangers on the streets, here are four effective ways to help the homeless in your community.
1) Volunteer
The most productive way to get started helping the homeless is to join forces with a well-established operation. As a volunteer you will learn from those who are already making a difference, rather than repeating the mistakes of well-meaning but misguided novices. By receiving "on the job" training, our team in Brazil was able to experience the rewards of accomplishment right away.
A good place to start volunteering is at your local church. If your congregation doesn't have a homeless ministry, find a reputable organization in your city and invite church members to join you and your family in serving.
Consider partnering with Habitat for Humanity, a nonprofit, ecumenical Christian ministry that invites people of all backgrounds, races and religions to build houses together with needy families.
2) Respect
One of the best ways to help a homeless person is to show them respect. As you look into their eyes, talk to them with genuine interest, and recognize their value as an individual, you will give them a sense of dignity that they rarely experience.
My most memorable times in Brazil were the all night stays on the streets with gangs of children. We did this once a month for a while, offering medical treatments, haircuts, friendship, encouragement and prayer. We didn't have a rigid structure on those nights. We just went out and spent time with the children. We talked to them; we held their street-born babies; we brought them a hot supper. By doing this we gained their trust.
Remarkably, these kids became protective of us, warning us during the day if they detected any dangers on the streets. One day while walking through the city, a boy I had gotten to know stopped me and told me to quit wearing my particular kind of watch on the streets. He showed me how easily a thief could snatch it from my arm, and then he suggested a better, more secure type of watchband to wear.
While it's wise to exercise caution and take measures to ensure your personal safety when ministering to the homeless, by identifying with the real person behind the face on the streets, your ministry will be much more effective and rewarding. Learn additional ways to help the homeless:
3) Give
Giving is another great way to help, however, unless the Lord directs you, don't give money directly to the homeless. Cash gifts are often used to buy drugs and alcohol. Instead, make your donations to a well-known, reputable organization in your community. Many shelters and soup kitchens also welcome contributions of food, clothing and other supplies.
4) Pray
Lastly, prayer is one of the easiest and most positive ways you can help the homeless.
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