A refuge for those with no place to turn

How Two Men Experienced Transformation In many ways, Samuel and Rusty couldn’t be more different.  Samuel didn’t finish high school and has struggled to find work most of his life. At 25, he’s already been homeless off and on for seven years. He’s battled debilitating depression and severe drug addiction. Rusty has had a successful […]

Charles hated living in a tent in a homeless camp. “I had nowhere to go,” he says. But the thing that’s been hardest for him about being homeless is how other people have treated him. “People treat you like you’re scum when you’re homeless, and I’m not scum.” Charles is right. He’s not scum. No […]

You could say that the legacy of addiction was handed down to Mingo before he was even a teenager.  “When I was 12, my auntie introduced me to crank,” he says.  Two years later, he moved out on his own and joined a gang here in Tacoma/ Pierce County. He’s tried practically every drug out […]