by admin | Jul 26, 2011 | Franciscan Center
I’ve said it, you’ve said it. We have all heard it at one time or another. Every person has gifts, and we should share those gifts with our world. But what happens when what you thought was your gift, your way of giving back, is taken from you? Is that it?...
by admin | May 5, 2011 | Franciscan Center, Press Releases
by admin | Feb 1, 2011 | SNAP Challenge: Living on $30 a Week
Up until now I thought I understood hunger. Understood what it means to be without the kinds of food I find healthy and desirable, and what it may mean to live as many of my hungry and homeless neighbors do. Hunger and feeding people is something I think and talk...
by admin | Jan 21, 2011 | Franciscan Center, Stories from the Center
You could hear the laughing from the front door. It isn’t everyday that we have the innocent laughter of young kids at play in our dining room. A mother and her two small boys were making their way through the line, picking up treats and hot cocoa on this Warm...
by admin | Jan 19, 2011 | Homelessness, Issues
‘Michelle’ is not what you would expect. When she came to the Center she stood out and did not look comfortable at all. However, she didn’t walk with the stature of a person who had been on the lower side of a shoe most of their lives. She was well...
