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I appreciate everything the New Life VCHC gives to the unhoused. The food, showers, free store, lockers, and free phone services. But I am most grateful for being able to use a clean bathroom. I know it sounds so simple. But the homeless get turned away from public restrooms or forced to purchase an item before stores and restaurants will allow us to use their facilities.  I am appreciative of a clean toilet with hot water and soap. Thank you!

I am usually the one helping others, so it is kind of strange for me to be asking for help. I rented out rooms in my house and the tenants failed to pay me. Now I am on the verge of losing my home. But I need help in heating up my house. I don’t have money to repair my furnace, so I need propane assistance. I am very appreciative of the financial assistance I got today from. The New Life VCHC! God bless you all!

My family abandoned me and left me homeless. I never imagined this would happen to me. Never! I am so lost. I thank God for the New Life VCHC! A place of warmth and hope. I am a believer in God. Please keep me in your prayers!

I am confined to a wheelchair due to my deteriorating health. I got evicted and now homeless. The New Life VCHC helps me every day with clean bathrooms, good clothes at their free store and fresh, hot meals. God has me and gives me the strength to keep going.

After the loss of my family, including my twin brother, I became homeless. I was sleeping under a bridge when Rev. Ray found me. I was dirty, hungry, alone, and afraid. It was through the NLEC training program in New Bloomfield that I finally found security. I discovered security through the program and Jesus Christ. I now work in Springfield, Missouri helping with the mail and other front desk duties.

Volunteering is a natural part of loving our Jesus in word and deed. And the New Life VCHC is the perfect place to love those who are forgotten. We say to each of them–your life has value. It has meaning thru Jesus!

Having recently become homeless due to domestic problems, I knew this life was not for me. But I had another problem besides homelessness– I like alcohol too much! Some days when I was so stoned, I could barely walk or talk. But the staff at the New Life VCHC never gave up on me!

Although I did not go into combat, I am an army veteran. I love helping people. I think this is the calling on my life. I was trying to take care of my mom. She was homeless. She lived in a tent at Tent City here in Springfield. When I came to visit, I was shocked to find her dead in her tent!

Jonnie was a fellow inmate who seemed to struggle with life's challenges. Johnnie was 40- years-old and had serious doubts about God.

God May speak by giving us peace deep inside of us. He may give a creative idea. I spent 14 and a half years behind bars.

Easter for most incarcerated here can be such a debilitating experience.

I was sentenced to death and sent to death now at the prison at Potosi. The Supreme Court sent me a letter.

With the days going by, and not a cloud in the sky. I can’t help but wonder, when will I finally die?