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An icy wind is blowing the dusting of snow that fell last night. I was outside earlier, but I didn’t stay long. Now I’m sitting in front of the woodstove, soaking in that radiant heat that warms you...
John’s dark, pain-filled eyes pierced my heart. He stood on Lafayette Square facing the White House. His back was to St. John’s Episcopal Church, a quaint but elegant yellow building. He...
I’m getting long in the tooth. Every year the age gap between me and the youth we serve grows. I realized this even more at Impact the Valley this year. I’m staring down the barrel at my 70th...
I hadn’t been to Washington, DC for our Street Ministry with homeless people for a while. It’s not necessary because William Daniels, our DC director, does an outstanding job of leading groups. But on...
Everything he had was in a shopping cart. I watched as the old man shuffled across the plaza at the Kennedy Center to a place where he could sit in the sun on a cool September day in 1987. His...
After our youth groups with The Street (our homeless ministry in DC) serve everyone who lines up for food, volunteers walk around the park handing out the food that’s left. I call it “The Walkabout”...
One heart attack. Two strokes. Five stents. Advanced diabetes. Limited mobility. Ricky’s life isn’t easy. Home is a trailer with a deck and a ramp. The ramp has no rails, so he and his mobility...
We couldn’t have asked for a more beautiful day. The denizens of McPherson Square in Washington, DC enjoyed basking in the sunny, slightly cool weather. I arrived late, but the youth group from...
It was a beautiful afternoon on Father’s Day. The youth from the Society of Saint Andrew’s Harvest of Hope descended on Franklin Park, just four blocks from the White House. As they got out their bags...