Homeless

Pastor Dewey Moede

10 years ago

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Dear family of our Lord Jesus Christ,

Please pray for Sharon’s family, her cousin Danny McGinitier of Missouri passed away from injuries suffered in an accident. That is all the details we have. Please keep the family in your prayers.

Got a text from Pastor Marty Cooper reporting that Shannon has been moved out of trauma ICU into ICU. Her condition has improved somewhat. Thank you for your prayers.

Please pray for James of Reserve, New Mexico. he suffered a heart attack and is in the Socorro, New Mexico hospital recovering. James is the Dad of my friend Mike.

We thank the Lord for the new job that Laurie Milleson has! Praise God! Laurie is the lovely wife of Isaac Milleson our Chief Tchnical Officer here at FGGAM.

Here is the mailbag…………..

Dewey, Just read your daily cup. You mention never being popular. Very wise to accept
that call from God….I’m thinking that God would rather have children with
impact than popularity. The many things you listed all speak to impact. A very
Christ-like goal.I appreciate the simple yet profound thoughts you share. They speak to me often.
Have a great week.From Shona Neff in White Rock, New Mexico

Also this note:

We need men and women of God who speak and teach the truth of God’s word. Pastor Dewey Moede is one of those men. Be sure to read Dewey’s Daily Cup today.

From Shonda Savage in El Paso, Texas

God Bless you Shona and Shonda for the kind words……….

1 Cor. 1:31 Therefore, as it is written: “Let him who boasts boast in the Lord.” Amen!
If you missed yesterdays CUP, here it is:

DYNAMITE For Your Monday!

Just doing my prep work for the radio program……..opened up the mail and we got a very beautiful, touching and sweet card from FGGAM supporter Ethan Carr of Albuquerque. Thank you so much Ethan for the kind words and your monthly support of our efforts for God and His people. As it reads in Proverbs 16:24…….one of my favorite scriptures……Kind words are like honey….sweet to the soul and healthy for the body. We so much appreciate all of your love and support! For God’s Glory Alone! This is a picture of the front of the card Ethan sent us! It is just so encouraging to get hand written notes and cards! I am blessed to tell you that we get more than a hand full each moth, and it super encourages us to be dynamite for our LORD! Thank you so much to all tjhe supporters of FGGAM! God Bless you and yours forever and ever! PS, I almost forgot to tell you that we got a thank you card from the Tim Tebow foundation for posting a story on their efforts and we got credited for thousands of hits to that post! We are here to serve!!! For God’s Glory Alone! “To whom be glory for ever, Amen.” Romans 11:36 This should be the single desire of the Christian. All other wishes must be subservient and tributary to this one. The Christian may wish for prosperity in his business, but only so far as it may help him to promote this—-“To Him be glory for ever.” He may desire to attain more gifts and more graces, but it should only be that “To Him may be glory for ever.” You are not acting as you ought to do when you are moved by any other motive than a single eye to your Lord’s glory. As a Christian you are “of God, and through God,” then live “to God.” Let nothing ever set your heart beating so mightily as love to Him.” From Charles Spurgeon

A county cannot be great with 2.5 million homeless children. This is a severe breakdown in America. We are slipping away from God so very fast. We abuse our children, from abortion to parents killing their own children, beatings, to hunger to not having a place to lay their head. Sounds like Syria………no this is America! Shame on us! God is not happy with us!

Growing up in the 50’s and 60’s my parents would say when we did something bad, “Shame on you!: Even our school teachers would say it! It was a great way to convict us of wrong doing and get us to change our behavior. Now days if you use the word “shame” many accuse you of hate speech, so be it!

This is a challenge for the body of Christ, as it is our responsibility, our calling from Jesus Christ our Lord to take care of our children! Do not pawn this off as a government problem, the government needs to stay out of this problem as they are already destroying our children, allowing their death through abortion.

It is the Body of Christ, you and I, the church’s responsibility to care for God’s children.

We need to turn our church’s into care centers. Care for the soul’s of all.

Matthew 18: 2-6

He called a little child and had him stand among them. And he said: “I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Therefore, whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. “And whoever welcomes a little child like this in my name welcomes me. But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.

Food, sleep, safety, care of the soul.

We need to make room in our church’s for people to sleep, eat and get health and soul care.

If we allow our children to continue to be homeless we will continue to slip into hell.

We are allowing the American family to be ripped apart by Satan, through drugs, sex and money.

The government is not a daycare center, for heaven’s sake they cannot even take care of themselves. God never intended the government to be a daycare center for Him. It is our duty.

Revival starts with you and me and in our homes and neighborhoods.
Not assuming the responsibility for this problem is resulting in great judgement from God.

As the church, the body of Christ, we better get going here and open our doors to God’s children, or else.

Heaven forbid people who are making money off the homeless!

This report is from Franchesca Stevens of FGGAM News:

The number of homeless children in the U.S. has surged in recent years to an all-time high, amounting to one child in every 30, according to a comprehensive state-by-state report that blames the nation’s high poverty rate, the lack of affordable housing and the impacts of pervasive domestic violence.

Titled “America’s Youngest Outcasts,” the report being issued Monday by the National Center on Family Homelessness calculates that nearly 2.5 million American children were homeless at some point in 2013. The number is based on the Department of Education’s latest count of 1.3 million homeless children in public schools, supplemented by estimates of homeless pre-school children not counted by the DOE.

The problem is particularly severe in California, which has one-eighth of the U.S. population but accounts for more than one-fifth of the homeless children with a tally of nearly 527,000.

Carmela DeCandia, director of the national center and a co-author of the report, noted that the federal government has made progress in reducing homelessness among veterans and chronically homeless adults.

“The same level of attention and resources has not been targeted to help families and children,” she said. “As a society, we’re going to pay a high price, in human and economic terms.”

Child homelessness increased by 8 percent nationally from 2012 to 2013, according to the report, which warned of potentially devastating effects on children’s educational, emotional and social development, as well as on their parents’ health, employment prospects and parenting abilities.

The report included a composite index ranking the states on the extent of child homelessness, efforts to combat it, and the overall level of child well-being. States with the best scores were Minnesota, Nebraska and Massachusetts. At the bottom were Alabama, Mississippi and California.

California’s poor ranking did not surprise Shahera Hyatt, director of the California Homeless Youth Project.

The crux of the problem, she said, is the state’s high cost of living, coupled with insufficient affordable housing.

“People think, ‘Of course we are not letting children and families be homeless,’ so there’s a lot of disbelief,” Hyatt said. “California has not invested in this issue.”

Hyatt, 29, was homeless on and off throughout adolescence, starting when her parents were evicted when she was in 7th grade. At 15, she and her older brother took off and survived by sleeping in the tool sheds, backyards and basements of acquaintances.

“These terms like ‘couch surfing’ and ‘doubled-up’ sound a lot more polite than they are in practice,” she said. “For teenagers, it might be exchanging sex for a place to stay or staying someplace that does not feel safe because they are so mired in their day-to-day survival needs.”

Near San Francisco, Gina Cooper and her son, then 12, had to vacate their home in 2012 when her wages of under $10 an hour became insufficient to pay the rent. After a few months as nomads, they found shelter and support with Home & Hope, an interfaith program in Burlingame, California, and stayed there five months before Cooper, 44, saved enough to be able to afford housing on her own.

“It was a painful time for my son,” Cooper said. “On the way to school, he would be crying, ‘I hate this.’”

In mostly affluent Santa Barbara, the Transition House homeless shelter is kept busy with families unable to afford housing of their own. Executive director Kathleen Baushke said that even after her staff gives clients money for security deposits and rent, they go months without finding a place to live.

“Landlords aren’t desperate,” she said. “They won’t put a family of four in a two-bedroom place because they can find a single professional who will take it.”

She said neither federal nor state housing assistance nor incentives for developers to create low-income housing have kept pace with demand.

“We need more affordable housing or we need to pay people $25 an hour,” she said. “The minimum wage isn’t cutting it.”

Among the current residents at Transition House are Anthony Flippen, Savannah Austin and their 2-year-old son, Anthony Jr.

Flippen, 28, said he lost his job and turned to Transition House as his unemployment insurance ran out. The couple has been on a list to qualify for subsidized housing since 2008, but they aren’t counting on that option and hope to save enough to rent on their own now that Flippen is back at work as an electrician.

Austin, due to have a second child in December, is grateful for the shelter’s support but said its rules had been challenging. With her son in tow, she was expected to vacate the premises each morning by 8 a.m. and not return before 5 p.m.

“I’d go to the park, or drive around,” she said. “It was kind of hard.”

The new report by the National Center on Family Homelessness — a part of the private, nonprofit American Institutes for Research — says remedies for child homelessness should include an expansion of affordable housing, education and employment opportunities for homeless parents, and specialized services for the many mothers rendered homeless due to domestic violence.

Efforts to obtain more resources to combat child homelessness are complicated by debate over how to quantify it.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development conducts an annual one-day count of homeless people that encompasses shelters, as well as parks, underpasses, vacant lots and other locales. Its latest count, for a single night in January 2013, tallied 610,042 homeless people, including 130,515 children.

Defenders of HUD’s method say it’s useful in identifying the homeless people most in need of urgent assistance. Critics contend that HUD’s method grossly underestimates the extent of child homelessness and results in inadequate resources for local governments to combat it. They prefer the Education Department method that includes homeless families who are staying in cheap motels or doubling up temporarily in the homes of friends or relatives.

“Fixing the problem starts with adopting an honest definition,” said Bruce Lesley, president of the nonprofit First Focus Campaign for Children. “Right now, these kids are sort of left out there by themselves.”

Lesley’s group and some allies have endorsed a bill introduced in Congress, with bipartisan sponsorship, that would expand HUD’s definition to correlate more closely with that used by the Education Department. However, the bill doesn’t propose any new spending for the hundreds of thousands of children who would be added to the HUD tally.

Shahera Hyatt, of the California Homeless Youth Project, says most of the homeless schoolchildren in her state aren’t living in shelters.

“It’s often one family living in extreme poverty going to live with another family that was already in extreme poverty,” she said. “Kids have slept in closets and kitchens and bathrooms and other parts of the house that have not been meant for sleeping.”

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