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A Lonely Christmas for Our Unhoused Neighbors and What We Can Do About It
The Christmas season is officially here. Twinkling lights, packed calendars, school recitals, and Amazon boxes arriving at the door around the clock (just me?). And somewhere in the garage sits the bin of decorations we promised ourselves we'd organize last year. It's a beautiful kind of chaos. At least for most of us.
But in the middle of all that holiday hustle, while we're sprinting from one thing to the next, many of our unhoused neighbors are standing still, quietly overlooked as life moves around them.
The Week I Became the Good Shepherd (Guest Newsletter from Dan Sadlier)
On the morning of October 30th, 2024, our apartment—usually alive with six kids—was quiet. Around 8 a.m., our son Judah went to check on his oldest sister, our adopted daughter, "M." She wasn't there. I walked upstairs, assuming she was out with the dog or in the shower. But her room was empty, and her phone, something no 21-year-old ever leaves behind, sat on the table. Within minutes, our quiet morning became every parent's nightmare.
Responding to hunger with hope and celebration
People are hungry and scared, and we need to respond.
The question is…how?
Over the next six weeks, City Relief is hosting two really powerful events designed to help our community respond with both compassion and celebration.