A refuge for those with no place to turn

Matthew finally beat the odds . . . And it wasn’t easy! Last month we shared part one of Matthew’s story – how molestation, abuse, violence and alcohol at five years old destroyed his childhood. How there were already drugs in his system when he was born. How he was addicted, alone and living on the […]

Matthew never had a chance. The surprise isn’t that Matthew is homeless; The surprise is that he survived, at all! It began when Matthew was an infant – he was born as a baby with an addiction, cocaine already in his system. By the time he was four he was homeless; his family was living […]

Luis understands. Afghanistan, Iraq, Nepal, and a whole lot of places he can’t share. For more than twenty years as a combat medic and in Intelligence Collector with Special Operations, Luis has seen and done it all. And it wasn’t pretty, especially the time he witnessed a nineteen-year-old soldier lose his life the same day his […]