A Simple Thread

My favorite story from tonight's jacket distribution. This man in the red shirt on the left side of the photo below came up to me after he got his jacket and he said, "This jacket is so great and I'll put it to good use. Every morning, I have to get up at 4:30 so that I can catch the Red Line Rail to get to work by 6:00. And sometimes it's just so hard, when it's really cold, to make myself get out of that warm sleeping bag. But having this coat will make it easier." I told him I was glad to hear that. He said, "I think you're the ones who gave me that sleeping bag back before Christmas!" He was right.

Some good news.

Supreme Court lets stand ruling that protects homeless people who sleep on sidewalk Supreme Court lets stand a ruling that says homeless people have a right to sleep on the streets if a city doesn't have enough shelters to house them.

Thanks to Troy Chandler with Chandler McNulty, and the many people who donated sleeping bags for this distribution, we handed out 213 warm, new sleeping bags (and candy) to grateful homeless Houstonians this afternoon. Thanks to all of our wonderful volunteers.