Has Redding's Living Hope Lost Their Own ?
From Bethel Church joining forces with the Redding California Police Department to destroy homeless camps when they have nowhere else to go, to Living Hope Compassion Ministries plan to take food FREELY donated by Church's and Trader Joes and SELL food boxes to the poor, have even churches forsaken Love and Mercy ?
With their plan to stop serving food donated by the community and expected to go to the poor and homeless, and instead take that food FREELY donated and SELL it in their new restaurant for a profit , one must ask Mike Mojarro Executive Director what happened to "freely you have received, freely give" ?
And the King will answer and say to them, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me.’
And it appears there is no more room for church services at Living Hope Compassion Ministries as apparently the church sanctuary will be removed as well. Will the cross be removed next ? How does all this make the Gospel of Jesus Christ come alive?
If any of this concerns you please call Mike Mojarro Executive Director of Living Hope Ministries at (530) 243 - 8066
1043 State Street Redding, CA 96001
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There are several kinds of homeless as I grew into homeless myself, some are unemployed, lost homes due to fires...other kinds are addictions,scamming peoples,aggressive panhandling, even as for myself back in those days, I never sit on sidewalk or just roam around customers or passer -by asking for changes or a hand-out, the real way of surviving is offer a few chore tasks to earn tips , or better yet a hot meals...and worst of all kind of homeless, the ones that hides from public most of the time"criminals" they are homeless by choice because they rather not get expose by the public, most of them got issues and got loads of warrants on their id card, now if anyone were to try to break up homeless encampment due to silly reasons or a political reasons? best to hand out notices in advance, you also got to remember , not all homeless are on the same page with the police /ministry request, it can get very ugly if some of these homeless are fully loaded on drugs or drunk in public, they need to used proper homeless people skills in order to work with them, you can't just give them a order to brush them away from their camp, the moment you invades their property? they are only asking for troubles/problems...
What can one say? What can one do? The leaders is well aware of the problems, however, because it does effect their street, they bury their heads in the sand going about their business as if no problem exists, separating themselves from the 'undesirable elements'. Yet they do not realize that it was them who if not created the situation, they surly build upon the negativism of it. Well, Divine Law says that "whatsoever a man sows that shall he reap". That Law, NO ONE is above. Of course this does not help the homeless, yet in unity many things can be accomplished! A willingness to loose one's life for what they believe in order to receive the basic inherent rights that the US Constitution accords us, this will move mountains. Great job Chris...keep this dreadful situation in the public eye. Eventually, someone will see this thing for what it is. Shalom Blessings Agape!