Weekly Prayer

“Sometimes the most bravest and most important thing you can do is just show up” Brene Brown Just show up. Those words have come out my...

There is a deeper story behind this picture. It’s not just a simple and fun moment. Josiah and Jessie both have stories of how they came...

Just over three weeks ago, I left the place I called home for the past 6 years of my life. I said goodbye to friends and co-workers who...

I saw the jacket hanging on the door knob. Apartment 6 was Amanda's apartment, and I don't think that sense of loss will ever leave. In...

Honestly, I have a tendency to withdraw. When life becomes full, heavy and hard I can get quiet and hide. God has been using these hard...

It all started with a domino. Several years ago, I was at a women’s retreat and at the end of it all we had to set an intention for the...

Today makes 3. 3 years. 3 years since I officially became the Executive Director of the organization I love. I was young(er) and ready...

"You don't give your heart in pieces/You don't hide yourself to tease us." -Bethel Music & Steffany Gretzinger I struggle with listening...

Loss is never easy, but it has been a regular “thing” at Hope Street. Please don’t think I take loss lightly. Sometimes when a Member is...

24 hours earlier. I woke up Monday morning alarmed. I immediately checked my phone, worried that I had missed something tragic. Again....

(click the picture to watch the full video) "Always be joyful. Never stop praying. Be thankful in all circumstances, for this is God's...

Servant Heart. I’m pretty sure that somewhere in that definition you would find the name Rachael Stricker. Just over three years ago Rach...

"Conviction without experience makes for harshness." - Flannery O'Connor Broken people in community with broken people... it is hard. It...

My son Nik and I are preparing to move into our own apartment!!!! We are so excited. Since being at Hope Street I have established a new...

I hear the front door buzzer ring all day; with it voices saying “I need help, I’m homeless”. Can you imagine how difficult that must be?...

Ugh. Do you know what I hate? Leftovers. I don’t really recall as a kid eating leftovers, but I am pretty sure we did. I mean we did eat...

“Everybody's addicted to something Everybody’s gotta grip onto something Even if it's just to feel the response of appeal Maybe once,...

Dignity - our inherent value and worth as a human being; we are all born with it. I have heard people say, “I enjoy, insert where they...

“Hope Street taught me how to grow and provides an environment for that to happen. I got my life back here and in the process was blessed...

“Because you have made the Lord your dwelling place--the Most High who is my refuge--no evil shall befall you, no plague come near your...