If you do away with the yoke of oppression, with the pointing finger and malicious talk, and if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, then your light will rise in the darkness, and your night will become like the noonday. The LORD will guide you always; he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land and will strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail.

Thursday, March 23, 2006

Night Watch - Greensboro, USA

This is an old article, but Night Watch is still running - visit a volunteer's blog for more up-to-date info.

They apologize for waking him at midnight, but the man cordially welcomes them. He had been asleep on a concrete ledge under the Gorrell Street bridge over Murrow Boulevard -- naked except for a garment he tossed across his midsection when he heard them shout:

"Hello! Salvation Army! Got water, food!"

James Davis sips hot soup that Mark Scott and Murray Preston bring to him. He tells them he has been under the bridge three months. He says he works as a day laborer but cannot afford rent on $6.50 an hour. And he can't live at his sister's house, he adds, because of run-ins with her husband.

Full Article - News-Record.com

posted by Naomi at 11:25

1 Comments:

Blogger kathryn said...

$6.50/hour??? that's criminal!!!!

living under a bridge? that's unimaginable. .

thank God for the S.A.

12:18 pm

 

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