A Homeless Vet’s Journey: Week 6
To hear the audio introduction to A Homeless Vet’s Journey – Week 6, click the play button below: When we spoke with Monica at Catherine...
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- Dec 6, 2017
A Homeless Vet’s Journey: Week 5
To hear the audio introduction to A Homeless Vet’s Journey, click the play button below: We drove downtown and found the location of the...
- Mar 18, 2014
Ottawa Home and Garden Show. Why?
OIM has been given a booth at the Ottawa Home and Garden Show, March 20 to 23 at the Ernst and Young Centre. Why? A friend of the...
- Feb 3, 2014
The Small Things Guy…
Following from last week, my friend ‘Jesse’, the ‘small things guy’. So last week at the drop in, I had to call the police and ask them...
- Jan 27, 2014
The Small Things
Someone gave me a gift of money and instructed to help someone. Nothing came to mind immediately so I tucked it away- and took it out...
- Jan 20, 2014
A Place of Second Chances
I remember very clearly the day when Vern spoke up to support another guy who messed up. The guy stole something from our office, and we...
- Jul 29, 2013
A Treatise on the Term “Pro-Life”
Many individuals in the church like to say that they are “Pro-Life”, which is an interesting phrase to use. The term “Pro-Life”, to me,...
- Mar 8, 2013
I lost a piece of my heart…
Today I lost another piece of my heart. That’s what I feel when I meet someone who just makes me want to weep. Today I met...
- Mar 6, 2013
God’s hands on a cold night…
This past Wednesday, Ottawa experienced what I hope was the last winter storm of the year (fingers crossed!). It was windy, snowy and...
- Feb 25, 2013
OIM goes to the Oscars!
Ok…OIM didn’t actually GO to the Oscars…but the film that won ‘Best Documentary Short’ is the story of Inocente Izucar, a street-artist...
- Feb 22, 2013
Feeling Human
I met Ashley last summer. She had just left her parents house and was staying at a downtown shelter. Like many other youth who first come...
- Feb 20, 2013
You Take Donations Don’t You?
We came in this morning to find a note from one of the outreach teams that was out last night. The team had come across a friend in need...
- Feb 8, 2013
More beautiful for having been broken…
Recently Moira sent me something that she knew would intrigue me. It is a picture of a piece of pottery that was broken and then...
- Feb 6, 2013
Where did He call home?
Have you heard the story about the little boy who shared his lunch with a homeless man? The little boy had found the older man in a park...
- Jan 30, 2013
The Longest Wait…
…for some of our street friends at least: from December 20 or 23 to the end of January. It’s the longest time of the year to make your...
- Jan 25, 2013
Turkey time!
The aroma of turkey and all the traditional trimmings wafted from the kitchen at drop-in this week. Nothing says ‘come, sit and enjoy’...
- Jan 16, 2013
Taking time to remember
Yesterday, we held our annual memorial service at drop-in to remember those in our street community who passed away in 2012. Often times...
- Jan 11, 2013
Baby Steps…
There’s been no shortage of bad news about homelessness in our city. Ottawa did very poorly on the last Alliance to End Homelessness...
- Jan 7, 2013
“Low Places”
Suzanne comes to the drop-in every week without fail. Her story is similar to many others: she immigrated to Canada several years ago and...
- Jan 4, 2013
Cold Toes, Warm Hearts!
It was -27 degrees last night! Sweet merciful crud that’s cold! But the Wednesday night Outreach crew, appropriately bundled up, had a...
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