10.2.08 Today was a great break through for us. I found another homeless “camp”. My host was Ron. He has been a real asset to this production because he knows his way around the world of the least, the last, and the forgotten.
I also met Amy. What a story she has to tell. It’s hard to believe that people are suffering so badly right in our backyard, yes that’s right, here in the U.S. – not India, not Africa but here. Families are homeless and near homeless. Children are being taken away from their parents, some live in cars on the run – hiding from the authorities so they aren’t taken away.
It is very draining work. My good friend Mary Gunderson told me it could be very emotional. She shared with me that sometimes she goes home and cries. I feel so tired. In the beginning it just seemed hopeless. Now I have talked with the churches, seen the homeless being fed, watched a Family Resource Network director playing with a homeless child, stood by as a ministry gave bags of food to the homeless and hungry, listened as Mary and Karen went into the “Trinity Crises Team” and saved a family from being broken up. There is hope.
Come along on this journey as we explore the issues, learn the fates and walk a mile in their shoes. We will put faces to the statistics. We will help them one at a time. We will make a difference – starting with me.
When this project was started I thought I would help the homeless. I hope in some small way I have but the truth is they have helped me. This film has changed my life. I am proud to call them my friends.
-D.J. McCoy
