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To hear the audio introduction to A Homeless Vet’s Journey – The Saga Continues…, click the play button below: Week 12, and the only word...

To hear the audio introduction to A Homeless Vet’s Journey – Week 8, click on the play button below: The letter with updated information...

This is George Frederic Watts 1886 painting, “Hope.” Hope is sitting on a globe, blindfolded, clutching a wooden lyre with only one...

It was right before my eyes all the time, just waiting for me to wake up and see it! Typical of many smaller organizations, our needs...

Someone gave me a gift of money and instructed to help someone. Nothing came to mind immediately so I tucked it away- and took it out...

I remember very clearly the day when Vern spoke up to support another guy who messed up.  The guy stole something from our office, and we...

Tessa’s Home is an 8 part series running until December 27th.  To listen to the audio backgrounder from family radio CHRI, click below....

Tessa’s Home is an 8 part series running until December 27th.  To listen to the audio backgrounder from CHRI , click below. Miss previous...

Tessa’s Home is an 8 part series running until December 27th.  To listen to the audio backgrounder from family radio CHRI, click below....

For the past three months I have had the absolute pleasure of working with the young artists involved in OIM’s Passion 4 Youth art...

The Ottawa Police have had a heavy presence this summer. I see them patrolling the streets, walking down Bank or Elgin in pairs, or...

Our youth outreach worker recounted this story of last Monday’s events, and I thought you would be interested. Eddy was one of the first...

A few weeks ago, one of our street youth was found drowned in the Ottawa River.  I can tell you he came from a broken home, with all the...

March winds blow, or it pours rain, minus 30 with the wind chill – or any combination thereof.   Only in Canada, eh? We can look forward...

Big transition of our drop in this past week from Salvation Army Gladstone Street to Dominion Chalmers U/C on Lisgar.  For those who...

We were eating lunch when about twelve taps at the door came, softly, rhythmically and then stopped. We looked at each other and guessed...

Our Christmas Dinner was held this past Tuesday, January 18.  Three weeks after Christmas and people who received their cheques before...

Returning to the office in the early evening to gather some materials I had forgotten, I discovered the first of the evening outreach...

Our second (which might become an ‘annual’) auction happened this past Monday, October 4.  Here is a brief report about our evening: Over...

I can become invisible in three seconds. In the time it takes for me to move to a standing position on the sidewalk to sit on the curb...