29 Oct Day 21
One day a visitor asked me “What makes you come to work every day, knowing the challenges you will face?” The answer is very long:...
One day a visitor asked me “What makes you come to work every day, knowing the challenges you will face?” The answer is very long:...
It was blissful joy. We’d busted out of quarantine and were on the beach! The evening wind blew off the ocean into our mask-free faces....
There are a thousand reasons not to admit youth as old as 18, like Carlos, The habits of the streets are too ingrained by that age, they can pose a risk to the other children...
I don’t know about you, but when I was 10 years old, like millions of other children, I spent my days grudgingly going to school, reading comic books, and worrying...
“It’s for Charles and his girlfriend that we have dreamed about starting a community-based alumni church at the Hope Mountain Campus,...
Charles emerged from the squad car, gaunt and pale. Just 14, he had just been released from intensive care where he had recovered from...
We have three Brunos, but just one Brener. That’s why there’s that millisecond pause before I address him. But he catches it and a cloud...
I was six when my family moved to the Hope Campus, after my father Pastor Derli became campus Director. Growing up on campus, my little...
In one way or another they all leave. Graduating with a job, re-integrating with their families, or running away, they all leave eventually...
“Never stop believing in yourselves. My father believed in every one of you and knew the capacity you had to become men of God...