Leisa McDonald of Matthew House shares how God provided information and opportunity, step by step, following God’s leading, to reach refugees who have landed here locally. “We are working with the Afghan community as well as other families that we’ve been supporting prior to that, we do language programs for adults and tutoring programs for children; those are opportunities for people to step into to get involved.” Leisa continues, “We’re serving breakfast, lunch and dinner. If you have time in your morning, afternoon or evening, in the Phoenix area, the food is provided, it’s simply getting food into the hands of the people who are in need.” Leisa continues, “As these families move into the community, our goal is to subsidize through private funding until they’re stabilized and can afford that on their own.” www.matthewhouseaz.org
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Off the campus; that’s where Jesus was
Bob Moffitt interviews Darwin Campbell, Chaplain. Darwin says of the people he meets on the streets and homesteading in cars, “We go to them, meet them right where they are.” Darwin continues, “There are a lot of homeless people who are left behind. These are people who need the same services that you’re providing on the campus”, meaning a campus in downtown Phoenix which is a collaboration with St. Vincent de Paul and the City of Phoenix, with 23 different
