homeless ministry
Encountering the homeless brings relational ministry alive
ALLEGRA THATCHER EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Stories of human lives are what drive junior Ken Fox and sophomore Jacob Bowers to lead a van full of Franciscan University students to Pittsburgh every week for Homeless Ministry. A hot meal beneath an underpass greets the students when they arrive — but they aren’t there for the food. They are […]
Reaching the hearts of Pittsburgh’s homeless through communication, compassion
BY JOHN GALLAGHER STAFF WRITER It takes three vans of seven individuals roughly 90 minutes on the streets of Pittsburgh to make an incalculable impact. Every Thursday evening at 6:30 p.m., students pile into university-sponsored transportation. Sixty minutes and 59 rosary beads later, Franciscan University’s Homeless Ministry goes to work under a pedestrian bridge in […]