Homeless Outreach
Through the years, we have worked with Union Gospel
Mission, Dallas Life Foundation, Center of Hope, the Day Resource Center,
and the Salvation Army.
For 2 years in the late 1980's, we filled a DART bus
(that we owned for a while) with 75 - 90 homeless people from around
downtown Dallas every Sunday morning and took them to church. After
church, we fed them lunch, then took them back to their places of rest at
night. These places included abandoned warehouses, under bridges,
broken-down cars in parking lots, and even cardboard boxes in alleyways.
Some had been drug dealers, AT&T executives, family
men, mental patients, and even prostitutes who were working the street at
night and living in boxes during the day.
Many of the people accepted Christ. Some went
home; others started new lives with jobs and apartments.
Since returning to Dallas in 1999, we have worked
with the Union Gospel Mission Men's Shelter, Center of Hope Women's and
Children's Shelter, and many people who are homeless as the result of
crime and disaster events.
Wyatt has preached for the evening services at the
Men's shelter, which houses 200 - 300 men nightly. He has also
provided buses and been a relief driver for the 5 p.m. and 4 a.m. homeless
bus routes into downtown Dallas for Union Gospel Mission. From time
to time, we help with repairs on the mission buses which get a lot of
Dallas wear and tear helping people in Jesus' name.
Every June, we help with a city-wide homeless
outreach game day at Samuel-Grand Park in Dallas.
We provide some of the children's chapels at the
Center of Hope Shelter where we have seen dozens of homeless, confused,
and scared young people accept Jesus as Savior.
When you pray for, and
donate to, our ministry, you
are participating in reaching a lot hurting, desperate people who our
society has all but thrown away. Many of these people and families
can be rescued from the trap of homelessness, but someone has to be the
messenger to them.
Will you help us go?
