Download a PDF to read the full newsletter. Or read our featured article below. All The Means To Succeed Every workday morning Norma diligently puts her two-year-old son Conner in a stroller at Samaritan Inn. Then she walks to day care and to class at the local beauty school. In the evening, she repeats the routine […]
Download a PDF to read the full newsletter. Or read our featured article below. Faces Of Homelessness Changing That was Burchell’s response to the question, “What brought you to the Mission?” He has an irresistible, repeated, irrational impulse to gamble. That is present tense. It is a continual addiction that has to be managed. He returned […]
Download a PDF to read the full newsletter. Or read our featured article below. Faces Of Homelessness Changing Rebecca, her husband and four children were a family. She worked full-time as a cashier in a retail store; he worked full-time for an industrial fabrication company. There was addiction and stress in their home. An incident occurred […]
Download a PDF to read the full newsletter. Or read our featured article below. Boundaries Bring New Freedom Without foundation, Gina was subject to her own reasoning and desires. Her father had not been in the home since she was six-years-old. She was raised by her single mother. Gina said her mother was poor and could […]
Download a PDF to read the full newsletter. Or read our featured article below. Void Will Be Filled By Something Matthew’s story has no mention of addiction or mental health issues. As a student athlete at Roseburg High School, he abstained from chemical substances so as not to degrade his performance or get in trouble. As […]
Download a PDF to read the full newsletter. Or read our featured article below. Void Will Be Filled By Something When the air is removed from an enclosed space, a vacuum is created. The pressure outside is greater than the pressure inside. Whatever is closest to the opening gets sucked in to fill the void. The […]
Download a PDF to read the full newsletter. Or read our featured article below. I Am Priceless A car pulled up to the front of our Samaritan Inn. Tammy awkwardly stepped out from the back seat with nothing more to carry than a single duffle bag and her cane. The front seat was occupied by her […]
Download a PDF to read the full newsletter. Or read our featured article below. On The Road Again After a four week course in Umpqua Community College’s truck driving school, Steve received a Commercial Driver’s License. No less than six companies sought him for employment. He chose his new employer based on rate of pay and […]
Download a PDF to read the full newsletter. Or read our featured article below. Courtyard And Future Building Site Our master plan for the Mission’s downtown campus continues to be updated according to current circumstances. When we had to demolish our deteriorating Bookstore at the corner of SE Pine St and SE Cass Av, that lot’s […]
Download a PDF to read the full newsletter. Or read our featured article below. The Trouble With Roommates Roommates are unpredictable. Anthony had four of them in a two bedroom apartment. $200 a month afforded him the couch downstairs as a bed. At the time, he was working part-time at a minimum wage job. After child […]
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