A homeless man recently died here in Anderson. A friend of a friend. It hurt to hear that this had happened. It hurt even more to learn that he likely would be alive had he only been “rescued” hours earlier instead of “discovered” too late. Unfortunately, homelessness lives in our own back yards. Whether you see it or not in the course of your daily routes around town, it exists. You might not recognize it if it doesn’t look like a tattered and tired “street” person sitting in a cardboard box under the viaduct. Sometimes it takes another form. Maybe it looks like a young Mother and her child who travels from family member to family member because she has no place to call her own. Perhaps it’s the guy who sneaks back into work after everyone else leaves, so he will have a place to sleep. Perhaps it’s someone you’ve passed on the street. And you never knew.
Anderson University’s Baptist Campus Ministries teamed up with Family Promise to coordinate Homeless For The Homeless, an event to raise awareness and funds for homelessness in Anderson. ...Read Full Story Here