The first time the Rev. Joelle Henneman met Ivan Vance, he showed up in the snowy cold of a January morning to volunteer his time moving 10,000 pounds of produce from a parking lot indoors for a free ...

MARIETTA — Bob Hempen comes in to work at 6:30 a.m. to oversee MUST Ministries’ 136-bed homeless shelter. The doors won’t open for three and a half hours. But there are already people lining up, ...

As you walk along the banks of Buffalo Bayou near Allen’s Landing, the first thing noticeable about Percy Lyons, the subject of this week’s feature on Houston’s hidden homeless, is not his camp or his ...

The Rev. Larry Rice talks to a person in need in Downtown West St. Louis on Thanksgiving Day. It’s Thanksgiving morning, and around 60 people are lined up on Locust Street in front of what was once a ...

An Asheboro church facing closure finds new life as a shelter for homeless women and children. When a church in Asheboro, NC faced closure, local leaders made a bold decision. Instead of shuttering ...

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Homeless men eat a hot meal outside Shady Grove Baptist Church in December 2024. At the time, David Mancuso, right, and Evan Gabeline, left, holding his puppy Athena, lived in tents in the same nearby ...

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Recently, President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order to remove the American homeless from the streets. It is my understanding that the order is supposed to facilitate access to individual ...

On a recent Thursday evening, Maria Morales pulled her car into a parking lot in downtown Miami. The 75-year-old, along with dozens of others experiencing homelessness, queued for a hot meal provided ...