When temperatures dip to 40 degrees or colder First United Methodist Church in Port Orange, Florida opens its door and provides dinner, breakfast and shelter to the homeless. This season we've opened the church two times. It looks like we'll be open again this weekend. Below you'll find some of the things I've seen at the homeless cold weather shelter.
A tweep from Twitter crocheted scarves for every homeless man and woman.
A couple of days before Christmas, a homeless man led a homeless choir as they sang "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" to all cold weather shelter volunteers.
Another tweep from Twitter made phone calls and found 30 cots so that the homeless could sleep comfortably.
A homeless man gave up his spot at the shelter so that his girlfriend would have a warm place to stay.
Tweeps from twitter brought blankets, backpacks, socks and medicine for the homeless.
A homeless man stopped me and with tears in his eyes said, "God bless you and your church for keeping us warm for tonight."
I gave a woman a warm coat and she responded as if I had given her one million dollars.
A young man found a homeless person in a parking lot and drove him to the cold weather shelter. The young man made sure his homeless friend was comfortable and then drove home to find a couple of needed items. The homeless man cried as the young man came back to the shelter and gave him a pair of pants and a bible. I remember the homeless man saying, "I don't deserve this. I don't deserve this."
A tweep from Twitter talked, listened, looked into the eyes, sat down with and entered the world of almost every homeless man and woman.
Volunteers unselfishly donated and shopped for food, prepared and cooked meals, served food, passed out socks, washed dishes, stayed up all night and sang songs.
One of our volunteers brought her daughter to help. This young girl poured dressing on salad and hugged each homeless man and woman.
Last night as I was leaving the cold weather shelter a man walked up to me. He said, "Sir, do you have room for one more person tonight? I don't have a warm place to stay." I took him into the church and found him a place to sleep. As he was lying down he said, "Just take a look at what God has done for me tonight."
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ReplyDeleteAs someone who also works with homeless, I am so grateful to see what you're doing for our friends on the street. And I love that you not only feed them and give them a warm place for the night, but that you sit and visit and invest in them. It's so important.
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