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ately here at the Homeless Voice we have been giving you extra stories rather than our older traditional homeless stories. Most of these stories are based on prevention. Ways not to become homeless. Ways to prevent your hard earned funds from disappearing. Over the last four months we have seen a good amount of cases come to us from the streets because people have been getting hit at the ATM’s. They go to withdraw their social security money and before they know it they are in the hospital with a lump on their head. The suspects of these crimes know the dates of when Social Security Funds are deposited into their accounts. They watch the person at the ATM and look at their age and they make a determination that the person is most likely withdrawing their social security funds. At that time as the victim withdraws their money the bad guy either hurts them and steals their money or they man handle them in a way that intimidates the victim to just hand (Continued on page 13)
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THE THOMPSON FAMILY THE SANCHEZ FAMILY ere they came in via our front doors and once t was a night that two people were homeless, again we said “God Bless this place”. To living place to place… trying to find a place to think they would be out there all alone was too live. It was not a normal night because they needed hard to think about. How and shelter but to be only told why is this happening day after these famous words “There is day? According to the National no room at the Inn”. So Coalition for the Homeless, kids these two parents had their make up a very large percentage struggles. Not too bad for of new homeless cases. In fact, two adults to be Homeis it the largest growing segment less…but what happens if of the entire Homeless populaone of those adults was about tion. From kids running away to to bring a Gift into the find themselves fending off viworld? What happens if cious adults who prey on them to these two people were bringmostly Moms living out of their ing us the Man who died on cars or in the bushes behind a the cross for our sins? What Burger King so they can have happens if this Man, who their next meal, the problem exist saved the world, was about to and it is not going away. Yes be born as a little one and there are arguments as to who still the parents had no place should be the responsible party for the birth of this little one? the family or the government. Now that you know I am Yes, the family is to put their talking about Jesus and this own roof over their own head. Holiday season we Christians But that is perfection and there call Christmas , how scared will never be perfection in the would you have been if you world and the world has to be Both the Thompson and Sanchez Family will and your spouse were about ready, able and willing to re- have a place at the Homeless Voice “Inn” for to have a baby and you, too, spond to a family becoming had no place to go. The the Holidays. Thank You Voice Supporters. homeless, just like in disasters story I am about to tell you is when families become homeless sort of the same, except this they get all the services they need. Mom had to do it all herself.
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she's probably looking for it." Workers at the Love Chapel, a place that helps homeless people in Columbus, said they didn't know Hughes, but they said they were touched by what he did. "He said whoever's money that was, they might need Man Says Discovery When asked why he it more than he did. And that Was Test From God ughes, identified as a homeless man, didn't keep the money, touched me because we think who are homeless are in told Bartholomew County workers he Hughes said, "Some people desperate need," Love Chapel's found an envelope containing more than $1,500 in cash on a Columbus sidewalk little old lady probably Lisa Teague said. Elizabeth Kestler, who Thursday. He turned the money in at the county government office building across the lost this ... she's probably also works at the Love Chapel, said she believed God tests peostreet. looking for it." ple in the way Hughes described. Hughes said he believed the discov"He definitely made the test, ery was a type of divine examination, accorddidn't he?" Kestler said. "If (only) we could all do the ing to Rose Johnson (pictured, left), an employee of the same." county treasurer's office. He said God was testing him. The person to whom the money belongs can Officials said Hughes later boarded a bus and claim it if he or she can correctly identify the envelope headed to Oklahoma to see his sister. The county will and tell him the exact amount of cash it contained. give the money to Hughes if it isn't claimed within a couple of weeks, county Treasurer Vernon Jewell said. COLUMBUS, Ind. The Lord giveth, When asked why he didn't keep the money, and Dana Clark Hughes giveth right back. Hughes said, "Some little old lady probably lost this ...
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