Sentences with phrase «about homeless people»

In years of writing about homeless people, and homeless dogs, and homeless people with homeless dogs, it's something I've noticed.

I was listening to a radio programme about homeless people and one woman — educated and well - spoken — described how she'd ended up living on the streets of London.

I watch newscasts about homeless people here and abroad, about war torn countries where people are slaughtered or sold into slavery, about children who are born with aids and die before they have a chance to live, about victims of earthquakes in China, orphanages, starving children, disease, and the list goes on and on and on.

Here are some stories from Sam Riviera about homeless people he has met on the street.

There are numerous posts on this blog about homeless people.

That contrasts with the tech industry's often fractious relationship to its host communities in the Bay Area, where newly minted multimillionaires have been known to buy residents out of their homes on the spot and complain to municipalities about homeless people marring their views.

It's about Homeless Persons and will be photos and text.

Not exact matches

Back in 2012, HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan stated that it costs about $ 40,000 a year to fund a homeless person, with the costs of shelters, emergency room visits, and jails being factored.

But what about thanking the homeless people who come to the shelter where you volunteer?

That is what religion is about, teaching people to be generous to others, feed the sick or hurt or homeless, treating others like you want to be treated, being honest, kind, loving, and generous.

I believe that its important to see inner wisdom and the council of friends and wise and knowledgeable people... but God, if he / she exists created us — right... oh yes w / brains... we should be honoring that by using them... I can imagine if God exists every day he is saying to himself / herself «why do people keep asking me for things I have not control over, or really could care less about (people are asking for a new shinny house to replace their perfectly fine house while millions are homeless around the world, hungry, sick, etc.)... why are they not using the gifts and skills they have».

Mainline churches looking to retain and attract young people, particularly «homeless» evangelicals like myself, would do well to look to Missiongathering as a model, for, at least from my perspective, they have managed to combine all that is great about the mainline with all that is great about evangelicalism into one faith community.

How about the 4 people who died and hundreds who became homeless, is that also blessing / warning from God?

The really bad thing about what they're doing is that it takes resources away from those who really need them, the real homeless people, and gives cash to a guy who is pulling down $ 60K annually by posing as homeless.

I volunteer at a homeless NPO and as much as I enjoyed the first part of the post, I do not agree with leaving bible verses and the implication of forgetting about sharing Jesus out completely... I understand the reasoning and that people have been hurt, but to leave Jesus out of the equation unless they ask doesn't sit well with me.

Major Allman told Premier about the kind of work the charity was doing back then: «It was very much seeing people who were homeless and sleeping on the streets and finding dormitory style accommodation.»

«The notion that religious people should be about feeding the poor and helping the homeless is a carryover of the Social Gospel,» says Charles Kammer, a religion professor at Wooster College in Ohio.

Sin is when we choose not to see that everyone is our neighbor, that we are all connected, that the homeless guy on the corner needs food, and the poor of Iran need food, and here we sit complaining about our jobs being outsourced overseas, as if some woman making shirts in Bangladesh is a lesser person than an American woman.

The homeless and penniless on the streets and in the parks seem to know more about the grace of God and the love of Jesus than do most people in our churches!

When I get a chance I'll write a couple of posts — One about the homeless and Jesus (some dislike churches and Christians, others are Jesus followers, but most like Jesus), and one about observations the homeless make to us about the people who show up on their turf to «minister» to them (whose attitudes range from condescension, which is very common, to love, which is very uncommon).

If you want to read some of the posts that Sam has written about helping poor and homeless people, here are the posts:

How about voluteering at a homeless shelter; animal rescuer, Meals on Wheels driver, or any of the endless charities that need people who have some time to kill.

A story from Sam Riviera about when he first became aware of the desperate plight of homeless people and what he could do to help.

So many people profess to be concerned about the homeless it's a wonder that there is any problem left.

The wife is overly guilty about being a parasite and compensates by giving homeless people twenties and trying to volunteer to help out the unfortunate.

The movie also spends generous attention on homeless people, some of whom are neatly sketched, and includes lines about the urgent need to help the homeless.

They don't give 2 chits about starving kids, or homeless old people... But they do take time out of their busy schedules to whine about how oppressed they are, which is also fantastic, and helps society tremendously.

@ jay — the next time i see a homeless old person i'll make sure to give up my one dollar that i was going to spend on soda because if the christians don't care about them then we are pretty much doomed, i mean the homeless old people because nobody else out there cares.

I walked into a church one and saw allot of gold and silver all over the place in the church and outside the church was a dunkin donuts and there was a homeless man that used to come in all the time no one used to help this homeless man and most of the people that went to this dunkin donuts were from the church the older people used to talk bad about the homeless man and they would continue to talk about the man behind the homeless mans back when they would go to the church, to me that right there is part of the seven deadly sins Gossip allot of churches do this.

Pastor Truax used the incident to challenge the congregation: Could church members let homeless people sleep right underneath their noses and not do something about it?

By all means, if I find any youth - at - risk with a computer at home, prisoner with Internet rights, homeless that frequent the public library internet system, or a mentally disordered person that are allowed the Internet by the county's out - patient facility... then by all means, I will mention to them about the free (NakedPastor) site.

About 300 homeless people are living in the tunnels and drain system underneath Las Vegas, surviving off of the excess and garbage created by those above ground.

Therefore, deep down, we are the people who are comforted; and we are the last refuge for the homeless people who do not know anything about the Lord anymore... May we impart the goodness.

On Saturday, I have church in a park downtown with about 10 - 20 other believers and 150 - 200 homeless people.

Asked whether he thought some residents would oppose the idea, he told Premier: «I think that whilst there is a resistance recognised by all policy makers about imposing extra taxes on people, I have a funny feeling that all of us have our consciences touched by seeing the huddled form of homeless people on the streets.

Amazingly, when asking poor or homeless people what they need, they usually do not list «things» like coats or tarps, but mention family members they're concerned about, their desire to get a job and get off the streets or health concerns.

This morning we picked up about a thousand items of clothing which still needs to be sorted and parceled out to the homeless, people who just got off the street, the poor, refugees and others.

I never thought about working with the homeless or bikers, but now the passion for these people absolutely consumes me.

If we claim to be saved, but our hearts are still so unchanged and hard that we stand by while people are hungry, naked, sick, in gaol, or homeless, then it probably isn't too far off the mark to ask what Jesus would have to say about us.

Homeless people frequently tell me that, so I didn't think much about it.

I also labeled a few bags and set them just outside of the trash area at the apartment complex (I went back and forth about this, but in the end I would see the same few homeless people going through and picking out bottles / cans every morning and I thought maybe they would appreciate a few boxes of [good] snacks and if not it was right there and could go out with the trash.

The last air - raid warning of the war was sounded on March 28th 1945 (the European war ended on May 8th), but about 12,000 homeless people continued to sleep underground until May.

JANE: Once people learn about the consequences of ACEs, the effects of toxic stress and that trauma - informed practices and building resilience can create healthy individuals, families, communities and systems, they can never look at a homeless person without seeing an abused child.

Speaking on behalf of the partnership, Julia Unwin, Chief Executive of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, said, «All the projects announced today will provide important new evidence about why vulnerable people with a wide variety of problems become homeless and how to prevent this in the future.

A 1999 study from HUD polled homeless people about what they needed most: 42 % said help finding a job; 38 % said finding housing; 30 % said paying rent or utilities; 13 % said training or medical care.

As this is asking about giving to panhandlers rather than the direction of public funds to homeless people, I agree that this is not a good fit for the politics SE.

Homeless advocates want the roadmap to touch on the issue, and McCray has said that mental health problems are exacerbated when people are stressed about losing their home, but the city's power to solve the problem is limited by how much it is willing to spend, and a distant relationship with the Cuomo administration.

«It's about people who were homeless, who were homeless with their children and worked hard and got out of shelter, and are here with us at this wonderful, permanent supportive housing building.»

As the debate headed towards its conclusion, a young woman in the audience stood up and started shouting about money going on the army when homeless people are sleeping on the street.

They spoke to homeless people about their experiences, and staff from local authorities and hostels and support services in the area about the management of homelessness.