Tag: homeless

• The Good Samaritan turns 75

  In just a few days, on August 5, 2022, Mim Jacobson will have been accumulating knowledge, wisdom, memories, and all kinds of things for 75 years. In honor of reaching our mid-70s, Mim and I have begun the process of sorting through all our stuff.  In one of our boxes in our basement store room, […]

  Marian

  August 2, 2022

  Goals, God’s Love, Life’s Challenges, Reflections

  Good Samaritan, Health Outreach Program, homeless, homeless youth, hospitality, Laurie Beth Jones, life mission, Mim Jacobson, mission statement, neighbor, Night Ministry, nightlights, The Path, vulnerable

• Let Me Introduce My Neighbors to You

  

  When I was a little girl growing up on a Wisconsin farm, I thought of four families as being our neighbors: the farmers across the road just west of us – the Henry Henderson family; the farmers who lived on the farm immediately south of us – The Mulcaheys; the farmers just east of us […]

  Marian

  February 9, 2016

  God’s Love, Jail Ministry, Life’s Challenges, Reflections

  Cabrini Green, Catholics, Chicago neighbors, David Mahoney, different churches, dorm living, double cousins, Dulce Maria, God’s love in action, Good Samaritan, growing up, healing, healing environment, homeless, Honduras, housing project, imigrants, inmates, jail ministry, LaSalle Street Church, Methodists, neighbor, neighboring farmers, neighboring farms, neighborly, same church, Sandburg Village, Sheriff Mahoney, Stone Meadows, Wheaton College, Wisconsin farm

• Kindness or Foolish Generosity?

  There, I did it again. Two and a half years ago I gave $5 to a stranger who asked for a dollar or two to buy gas to get home for Christmas. I was at a McDonald’s parking lot just off the interstate between Cambridge and Wisconsin Dells. This time was just a couple weeks […]

  Marian

  July 7, 2015

  God’s Love, Life’s Challenges, Reflections

  advice from Floey, conned, Floey, foolish generosity, generosity, homeless, Indian Reservation, kindness, Native American, panhandler, panhandling, stranger, wise insights