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OIM hosted our annual Easter Dinner this week.  Over 40 volunteers  served 150 dinners to our street community.  As I stood back and...

One of the most amazing privileges of working with people is the opportunities we have to build relationships. Over the past years there...

As I write this, you should know that I am really, really angry!  I am angry as I witnessed and was even an unwilling participant of...

“Do you have room for one more?” It was the end of the day at our drop-in and I was getting ready to clean up the foot care station. I...

I can’t help but feel a profound sense of sadness and tragedy some nights during outreach.  But, once in a while you stumble upon an...

Well, it wasn’t exactly bright and shining.  It was more like a dull and well-worn silver key, but the glow that came off the face of our...

Some of the most down to earth and insightful exchanges I have are during outreach with OIM.  Week after week I stop with my fellow OIM...

Community: We all crave it. From adults to children, men and women, CEOs to stay-at-home moms, we all want to belong or at least find a...

“Heroin saved my life.” Not something I ever thought I would hear, let alone, believe. One of the youth in the art group said this to me...

She wheeled the stroller into drop-in.  It was a bitterly cold day and the bundle inside the stroller was barely recognizable…But WE knew...

“Excuse me m’am…do you have any bus tickets?  I have to get to an appointment this afternoon.”  I was speaking with a couple of our...

If you look at me, and squint really hard, I look like God. Whoa! Don’t be hasty! Unless you ask my little sister, I’m not that cocky....

Going to work this morning, I came down the same hill at the same time and saw the same bus going up the other side.  I got on my usual...

Very different indeed.  A bit hard to process for some, so let’s paint a picture of the reality of kids on the street.  Many issues...

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...

Merry Christmas!  Just a quick note today, on the eve of Christmas eve, to invite you to do a last minute gift purchase – for someone...

Thirteen street youth will be presenting their art work for show and silent auction on Monday, November 15, 2010 from 6:00 to 8:30 pm at...

Generally speaking the needs on the street are increasing and for many charities across Canada, there are dwindling resources as people...

It sometimes takes years to build enough trust for some of our street friends to talk to us about their lives.  Red is thirty-six and we...

We see people panhandling for loose change all the time in our cities.  It’s commonplace.  We have come to adopt certain attitudes...