Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...just hours after giving birth. More than five months later, she resurfaced and sued to regain custody of the child, who had since been adopted. Last December the state supreme court upheld a lower-court ruling granting her custody even though she was living in a shelter for the homeless at the time...
...responsive chord in me," remembers Newlin. She realized that she "had created an idol out of work, had sacrificed my time and effort to it, and it stopped working." She was baptized in January 1992 and began attending Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City and working in a homeless shelter. Four years ago, Redeemer was a 15-member Bible-study group on Manhattan's Upper East Side. "I said, let's not build a church for us," recalls Pastor Timothy Keller. "Let's build a church for your friends who don't go to church...
However, tenants of rent controlled apartments said they and their friends would be homeless if rent control were eliminated...
...efforts have been successful. Over the past three summers of our operation, we have assisted more than thirty previously homeless individuals in acquiring permanent housing and employment...
...thank the Rock for Shelter concert and the Undergraduate Council for making it possible to provide such an important service to the homeless population. Christopher J. Davidson '95 Maria P. Rogahn '95 David I. Sandberg '93 Arik Grier '93-94 Ellie Lee '92 Directors St. James's Homeless Shelter...