Fred Scarbrough: Grateful for 30 Years of HOPE and Looking Ahead

As we enter this Thanksgiving season, my heart is full of memory, thankfulness and hope. Each November is Homelessness Awareness Month, and that observance makes this season a fitting time to remember how HOPE began and to consider what God might yet do through us.   A moment of compassion Thirty years ago, a single moment changed the direction of my life. It was Thanksgiving Day in 1995 when a young family with a baby walked into a church-sponsored dinner. Up to that point I had pictured homelessness as a problem of individuals on downtown sidewalks. Seeing that young mother […]

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