TENT CITIES SPRINGING UP - ALL ACROSS THE USA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnnOOo6tRs8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmeHiFZUWtE


IN HARD TIMES, TENT CITIES RISE ACROSS THE COUNTRY
Since foreclosure mess, homeless advocates report rise in encampments.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26776283/

One sign of the nation’s shaky economy can be seen in the growing numbers of newly homeless people forming “tent cities” around the U.S. The rise of these encampments is being attributed partly to the foreclosure crisis in the housing market, and the newest economic developments aren’t likely to ease the situation.

http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/ite..._up_nationwide/


TENT CITY, U.S.A.

Nobody knows the exact population of Tent City, but the area has swelled beyond expectations.

The dusty, undeveloped city-owned parcel at Cucamonga Avenue and Jefferson Street is filled with tents, campers and makeshift shelters.

"It took on a life of its own," Mayor Paul Leon said. "It didn't occur to us it would grow to this size this fast, which reflects the need." The area, just west of L.A./Ontario International Airport, was created in July as a haven for the city's homeless. It has grown to include 300 to 400 people from throughout the region.

"It's growing and it's growing," said Carlos Villalobos, a Tent City resident the past four months. "And I haven't seen nobody leave." Villalobos said the encampment is popular because police, for the most part, leave people there alone. Police would typically harass homeless sleeping on the streets, he said. The city also provides water and bathrooms, and picks up trash. Churches regularly provide food, Villalobos said.

Ontario was lauded by some people for giving its homeless a place to stay, rather than chasing them out of town or ignoring them. But some Ontario residents are upset about the arrangement. "I understand something needs to be done for these people, but I don't think the answer is Tent City," said Antoinette Hernandez, a 30-year resident. "You're just asking for sickness, violence or other problems."

http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com...t-city-usa.html




From Seattle to Athens, Ga., advocacy groups and city agencies are reporting the most visible rise in homeless encampments in a generation.

Nearly 61 percent of local and state homeless coalitions say they have experienced a rise in homelessness since the foreclosure crisis began in 2007, according to a report by the National Coalition for the Homeless. The group says the problem has worsened since the report’s release in April, with foreclosures mounting, gas and food prices rising, and the job market tightening.

“It’s clear that poverty and homelessness have increased,” said Michael Stoops, acting executive director of the coalition. “The economy is in chaos, we’re in an unofficial recession, and Americans are worried, from the homeless to the middle class, about their future.”

In Philadelphia, homeless individuals on the streets have built scattered encampments in alleys, under train trestles, or in park areas, but nothing that meets the level of a tent city.




http://www.tentcitiestoolkit.org/

NEVADA TENT CITIES RISE IN SHADOW OF CASINOS

Here, in the shadow of the giant casinos which mark the downtown landscape of this northern Nevada gambling mecca, as many as 150 people lived in a tent city until last weekend, one of a number of emergency shanty towns that sprang up in U.S. cities this past summer.


With winter approaching, Reno's tent city was dismantled last weekend, but some homeless are still trying to find shelter.

There are fears many more tent cities will rise next spring as more homes and jobs are lost in this country, a grim sign of the inheritance awaiting a new president, Barack Obama or John McCain.

http://www.thestar.com/Columnist/article/519057


CITY WANTS HOMELESS TENT CITIES TO BE SAFER, CLEANER

The City of Spokane is considering a new draft ordinance to help regulate the homeless tent cities that popped up around town last year.

The City will not ban the encampments, but instead wants to make them cleaner and safer when they do pop up.

Many homeowners complained last year when tent cities appeared and one location was close to a school and had sex offenders living there.

http://www.krem.com/news/local/stories/kre....10e706252.html

i see the images here in this post and it is really withnessed about tent life in in USA, is govt not provide them houses? i am praying for them to get houses as like others in USA.

BRO.CHINNAM NAIDU

Is it possible that the Illuminati/NWO forced subprime loan fest and orchestrated home foreclosure crisis was planned to generate the mass homeless problem to eventually move towards carting the displaced populace to the FEMA "Refugee" Camps (Extermination Camps)? If FEMA is brought in to "handle" America's Tent City dilemma, the hair on the back of my neck will stand straight up.

http://www.roytaylorministries.com/am01252.htm

http://www.freedomfiles.org/war/fema.htm

http://www.apfn.org/apfn/camps.htm

HOMELESS TENT CITIES IN LOS ANGELES DUE TO FORECLOSURES:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnnOOo6tRs8

Chinnam...

IF these pictures are true and not a hoax.... I hope you know that these people living in tents do not even comprise 1% percent of the population.

99.9 percent of the population in the United States lives in their own homes....not in tents.

And I would say that the majority of them are those that are on the fringe of society as it is.

oooh good cindy ,now i understand about tent cities,i think many people living like india but you says 1% it is good sister cindy.
indians are living every where in the tents,on the roads and pavements from the long years. my fathers says golden age finished in india before 1000 years

Hi -7,

Yes. It has all been planned.

“Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as 'internationalists' and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure - one world, if you will. If that is the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.”

— David Rockefeller (David Rockefeller: Memoirs, Page 405)


IS THE ILLUMINATI PROVOKING ECONOMIC COLLAPSE?
We may be on the verge of a stock market crash reminiscent of 1929.

I was watching a special CNBC program on the financial crisis when the news came across that Moody’s had downgraded the Insurance giant AIG (American International Group.) This company was already on the ropes Monday when its stock crumbled to $4.75 from $11, %60 in one day. It was down from a $70 52-week-high. The company had gone to the Fed for a bailout. It was estimated it needed $40 billion.

Because of the Moody’s downgrade, it emerges that it will need alot more money to avert bankruptcy. This is a massive company that holds the pensions of millions of employees. A money manager estimated that a trillion dollars would be lost if AIG declares bankruptcy. The whole world financial system could be taken down. He said banks in the Far East were already acting like this is inevitable, and the collapse already has been set in motion.

As you can imagine, the CNBC commentators were frantic. One demanded to know how the Fed can allow this to happen. “We know they print money,” he said. Another wondered if the States whose pension funds were held by AIG could organize a bailout. Not enough time, he was told.

The bottom line is that Tuesday and the rest of this week could be ugly so be prepared. The second bottom line is that this Depression like the last appears to be caused by a deliberate contraction of credit. House prices are falling because banks don’t have the money to lend to house buyers. As a result, portfolios holding mortgage backed securities are tumbling, taking banks with them. The Fed, after bailing out Fannie May and Fredie Mack, have let Lehman Brothers fail. AIG appears to be next and the dominoes will continue to fall.

At this time, it is important to remember that an Illuminati defector known as “Svali” said she was taught that the “end of the world” scenario involved an economic collapse. Remember the Illuminati is a Masonic cult founded and funded by the central bankers who own the Fed. Here is her full testimony given about ten years ago.

( http://www.savethemales.ca/141002.html)

“Want to hear the end of the world scenario the Illuminati taught me? It was cult propaganda, but this is how they believed the New Order would be ushered in:

There will be continued conflict in the Mideast, with a severe threat of nuclear war being the culmination of these hostilities. An economic collapse that will devastate the economy of the US and Europe, much like the great depression.

One reason that our economy continues limping along is the artificial supports that the Federal Reserve had given it, manipulating interest rates, etc. But one day, this won’t work (or this leverage will be withdrawn on purpose) and the next great depression will hit.

The government will call in its bonds and loans, and credit card debts will be called in. There will be massive bankruptcies nationwide. Europe will stabilize first,and Germany, France and England (surprise) will have the strongest economies, and will institute through the UN an international currency. Japan will also pull out, although their economy will be weakened.

Peacekeeping forces will be sent out by the UN and local bases to prevent riots. The leaders will reveal themselves, and people will be asked to make a pledge of loyalty during a time of chaos and financial devastation.

Doesn’t sound pleasant, does it? I don’t know the exact time frame for all of this, and wouldn’t want to even guess. The good news is that if a person is debt-free, owes nothing to the government or credit debt, and can live self sufficiently, they may do better than others. I would invest in gold, not stocks, if I had the income.

Gold will once again be the world standard, and dollars will be pretty useless (remember after the Civil War? Our money will be worth about what confederate money was after the collapse).

All this said, it could just be cult propaganda taught to me and others to frighten us. It may be that none of this will happen. I sincerely hope not. I also strongly believe that God is able to stay the hand of the wicked, and to take care of our nation and others, if we turn to Him.”

( http://giuli.com/svali/EssentialSvali.pdf)

That noted, let’s remember the words of Denis Healey, former British Defence Secretary and Secretary of the Exchequer: “World events do not occur by accident: They are made to happen, whether it is to do with national issues or commerce; and most of them are staged and managed by those who hold the purse strings.”

I think we are in for a recession, maybe even a Depression but I don’t think the Illuminati is ready to declare their New World Order just yet. However, this could be part of a larger scenario leading to World War Three, similar to the role the Great Depression played as a precursor to World War Two.

The Illuminati goal is to torture the human race until we cry out to them for world government, anything to stop the pain.

http://www.wariscrime.com/2008/09/16/news/...nomic-collapse/

SEE ALSO:

http://www.christian-forum.net/index.php?showtopic=24114


JESUIT FASCISM AND THEIR TAKEOVER OF AMERICAN AND ALT MEDIA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnkngpSTZ-0

THE REAL CONTROLLERS OF THE USA
http://www.cephas-library.com/nwo/nwo_the_...of_the_usa.html



http://mygodimhit.com/jboys.pdf

if America can spend billions of dollars on its space programs and support for its men and women in the armed forces and pay for the popes visit i am not running your country down i love what america has to offer and have been praying

why cant America set up goverment housing homes and units for the home less and unemployed like we do in Australia the Department of housing is set up to help single mothers single fathers young people and elderly people who cant afford private rentals or evan afford to buy their own home your rent is deduxed at a low rate you fil in a form provide department of housing id and weight it depends on what city you are aplying for a housing commission home or unit in sydney for example it takes 3 to 5yrs were i live in canberra it takes 6 months and in out back australia its diffrent

the department of housing also provides emergency housing like putting you in a motel or setting you up in a caravan park

once your time is up on the weighting list and your are called you are given two choices if you dont like the home or unit you can op to look at another one then you sign a lease your rent can be taken out as center link has what you call center pay you can even do this with gas electricity phone you tell center link what you want taken out of your fortnightly center link payment after doing a budget and making sure you have enough for food and travel and for your kids it works really well in Australia

you can get one bed room units bed sitters 3 bedroom homes 4 bed room homes and what department of housing has set up after being in the one place say for 10yrs you can op to buy your home or unit or bed sitter what department of housing does is work out a payment plan with you you sign the form and they take what you agree out of your center link payment also what department of housing has set up is were if you want to move to a certain city or coastal town you can leave your info its set up if a resident wants to swap their home all you need to do is tell department of housing you have found some one who wants to move into your home or unit or bed sitter and you have agreed and the rest is left up to department of housing

homelesness is a choice no one forces home less people to live on the streets its the same when it comes to lonliness lonliness is a personal choice god never tended for us to be on our own why did he create eve out of adams ribs

when i was living on the streets it was my choice i decided to live on the streets why i did not want a goverment payment i did not want to meet center link require ments like attending apointments showing center link i was looking for work and puting down the jobs i had applied for that is the rule center link explains this to its clients

their are men and women also doing this in sydney they can get off the streets receive a centerlink payment but for some reason they decide you need an adress center link wil not accept private mail boxes as an adress for example single person renting privately receives any were from $490 To $ 590 to $690 all you need is show a lease from a real estate agent and rent receit take it to center link and they do the rest if you are in a housing commission home you dont get rent assistance as the rent is low if you are a single mother with 4 or 5 kids you get any were from $1,500 to $1,700 a fortnight and can live very well as a single person if living at home $380 to $290 a fortnight

no other country has the set up we have in Australia when it comes to unemployed people and our older folk


i told my fiancee as what i saw in the philippines shocked me people living under by ways in shantys home made of material from the tip


what i saw blew me away people living under bridges shantys set up near the catholic church in manila and bacolod and illo illo

most of our members live in what use to be a tip the philippines goverment flattend what use to be a tip and set up a boundery and the poor are alowed to make a home from what ever they find the 5 churches we have planted around Bacolod all our members live close by and live in shantys they welcome you into their homes they use the tap out side to wash and wash there clothes they have buckets and the buckets are filled up every day

no hot water only cold water when it rains the rain comes in with the rats and birds trying to get shelter dirt floors only no carpet like what i have in my kit home no hot water or electricity or gas and no heaters you dont need heaters in the philippines its tropical all year round


supprising our goverment has not thought of this for the homeless people living on the streets in sydney melbourne brisbane queensland adelaide

canberra has a good set up what the goverment has done is built what is called like a village the rooms are very comfterbal and they even have their own kitchen and laundry service is set up for young people and adults and familys you also have housing commison homes and units and bed sitters


we need to do what we can to help the poor not bring them down or whine just because you own your own home have a good job and have parents who can help you the poor have not got the help you have from your family


shame on you if you look down on the poor just because you have it easy




Damo

The last link for KREM.com is only a few miles from me. This is a story from last winter of the homeless which happens every year. Are you saying that you think the goverment should help every single person who has no drive to make their lives better and expects for people to give them handouts??? I feel bad and say prayers for the people that have run into bad times...but I do not feel bad for the person who can not help themselves and only beg from others. Spokane, where the news station is from, is about 300,000 people and has a homeless problem. This is not due to the fact that tent cities are popping up every where.

should not the goverment be helping istead of wasting tax payers money on them selves i speak for every country when i say goverment the ones who work for the goverment have it easy they dont have to worry their futer is secured what about the poor is their futer secured ? does any one give a dam when it comes to the home less situation in your countrys ?

in manila their is a church built in the midle of a tip out of the materials found in the tip what the pastor and the christians off this church does is simple they reach out to the poor living in this tip and educate them also in manila their are poor people living in parks shantys prop up in this park and the poor have made it their home


the money the goverments of our world get is more than what a normal person would or could make in a life time if one wins the loto they are set for life if a poor person wins the loto the poor person can look after his family his wifes family his own family

its the goverments responsability if the goverments of our world can spend money on its space programs such as i am hearing know india has launched its rocket to space the money this goverment wasted on building this rocket could have helped the poor and we have a member hear who has an orphange called mercy orphanage brother chinnamen could have benifted from the money his goverment wasted on building that rocket their are rich indians in brother chinnamens country who wil not lift a finger to help the poor but when it comes to their own goverment setting up projects such as what i heard the rich back their goverment


as i said if you have it easy and look down on a poor person with out offering aid shame on you no use saying i pray i can pray to but i put my faith into action their are some poor people that cant hold a job i witnesed this when i was living on the streets you know who can look after them selves and who cant look after them selves


why should the goverment sit back and enjoy the perks ?

like going on shopping sprees

taking their family on expensive outing

flying to countrys they have never been to

eating in the top restraunts

scams are evident with in each goverment


hear is sydney an entire council was sacked and the council members are being take to court


i see this hear where i live the polaticans who we elect whinning wanting a pay rise when they dont lift a finger at all or do they talk to the real people


tax payers money can be invested into setting up homes for the home less instead off being wasted on space programs that wil get them no where



Damo

In case you haven't heard, taxpayer money has just been used to bail out the banks!

BAILOUT MEANS TAXPAYERS GET THE BILL

http://www.paradisepost.com/opinion/ci_10659110

i have heard and most countrys have followed suit my fiancee country has not followed suit you guys are not the only ones that wil be paying hear in Australia we wil be also paying but kevin rud is still helping the strugling familys our elderly have been missing out until kevin rud heard what they have had to put up with he made changes and those elderly folk on the pension have gotten pay rises

we have been paying close attention as right know you are in a ressession

we have cut back our intake when it comes to skilled migrants early this year kevin rud upped the anti and wanted more skilled migrants to come and work and live in Australia but with the crash and the bail out he has had to change plans we will accept skilled migrants under our program we have set up but wil not be taking the figure kevin rud targeted for

it should not be up to us christians here am i helping the poor as jesus said the poor wil always be with us but i wil not

we all have a part to play when i am in the philippines it brakes my heart to see kids playing in front of ther homes under by ways and in lane ways and in tips compared to my son and the kids i know in my street i live in


i have to walk were i can just give what i am feeling over to god there are times were tears run down my face here i am the little 7yr old girl i held in my arms at a healing service i can not shake her face out of my mind she was wearing an old dress eats one meal a day some times she goes with out and only drinks water her mother is a single mother doing her best i cried in my fiancees arms on the way back to bacolod i told her god has been dealing with me to the point were he was breaking me shaking me teling me to let go of what i have and focus on what he is wanting me to do

everyone is suffering due to this crash investors hear have had their funds frozen and these guys are ready to retire they have been told to turn to cetnerlink for assistance and center link is set up to help strugling familys not people with investments worth over 1 million dollars

my best man is comming with me and i know he is going to go through what i went through early in jan he is very wel of he lives in one of the richest areas in canberra we have mansions in our street my fiancee grand mother has a small but comfterbal home i did my best to prepare him know its up to god to do what he needs to do in my best mans life i said you wil come back a changed person be ready to see god move and just let go when god asks you to let go of something that you have been holding on to



Damo

I've heard that the only countries prospering are Muslim countries right now. right here on Christian-Forum net...Saudi Arabia particularly, and Dubai is now the richest economically in the world. So where does Islam play in this scheme of New World Order?

There where two thieves on the Cross...one went to paradise and the other would not confess and repent and went to judgment....
in the middle of the Cross was our Savior and LORD of lords and King of kings...and KING of the JEWS..

we must remember in the end it all comes down to whom follows Christ Jesus our LORD and those whom continue to reject him and wish to build their own kingdom...the two false witnesses of the world.

And Believers are in the midst of the enemy, and Christ Jesus himself will Expose all the enemies of the Cross..
keep praying and believing for the enemy Knows his time is short.

and what shall you have if you gain the whole world and lose your soul?

The script calls for a primary “bad guy”, in this case Bin Laden, who like
other modern “bad” guys, actually is quite popular with fundamentalist
Muslims. Actually a number of bad guys have been created, and we will
examine some of the details of these. The puppet strings of many of the
leaders of around the world can be discerned by looking at their
affiliations, their training, their genealogies, their fraternal memberships
and their actions. These puppet strings ultimately go back to the global
elite. For instance, the elite here in America verbalized to each other how
pleased they were with Saddam Hussein’s destruction of things.

Islamic fundamentalists would say that Allah is responsible. If the West’s
leaders had seriously wanted to halt the rise of Islamic fundamentalism,
they had the ability to do so, but they added fuel to the fire at each step.
My point is that the rise of fundamentalism is being encouraged and
manipulated. How convenient for Israel that Iran has its religious
revolution and then goes to war with Iraq. How convenient for all the
corporations in the West and the Soviet Union that supplied materials for
the long war and the attempts to rebuild after the war. How convenient for
those who made profits off of oil and gas and opium. Follow the money of
Moslem terrorists, the CIA, the Illuminati elite, and the rich Gulf Arabs
and you will find much of it met at the infamous BCCI.

The fall of the West’s puppet Shah of Iran was actually not a surprise to
the elite. They had decided to let him fall. He had been empowered by
America’s CIA, and then abandoned when the time was ripe for a strong
reaction. The man who replaced him, the Ayatollah Khomeini was British MI6.
And tying together Saudi intelligence, Saddam Hussein’s intelligence and
Egyptian intelligence (and previously the Shah’s CIA-led SAVAK) is a group
called the Safari Club set up by French espionage. When you are aware of
these kind of things, then you realize the insidious deceptive nature of
this script. Different puppets, one script.

Look at the Moslem leaders like Jordan’s King Hussein. He married an
American and was a Freemason. The Shah of Iran’s father was put into power
by the British, and is descended from an old Jewish bloodline. The Shah
joined a Catholic Military Order in 1958, and Jordan’s King Hussein joined
the Catholic Military Order of the Golden Spur in 1964. And then some of the
Moslem leaders are Sufis. Syria’s leader Assad, who is also a Freemason,
maintains secret ties with Syrian-born Jews from Aleppo who are one of the
groups plotting the Temple Mount conspiracy to build a Temple in Jerusalem.
All these men have allegiances beyond Islam.

DETAILS, first, Bin Laden, and second, the creation of a viable Moslem
threat... the rest of the story.

READ THE WHOLE STORY:
http://www.whale.to/b/sp/sa.html

I believe there is definite corruption in all nations and governments...but I also believe that the enemy works with fear,
making one to believe that the U.S. was founded on complete corruption by the elite.

Why should I believe this?

How am I to know whom the true enemy is, if I don't trust anyone?

I know there are truly dedicated people whom have reached out to other nations, and given them food, water in times of disaster.

I also know that this world is built on good intentions, which can go sour.

Jesus said, I am not of this world.

so you see I put all this behind me, because in the end the only truth will comes from Jesus, and he will guide us to all truth.

The enemy will turn brother against brother and sister against sister...but those whom wait upon the LORD will mount up
on eagles wings.

In other words...all your information? How am I to know that you are not for Islam? I do know that they call us corrupt infidels, and they Hate the ZIONISTS.
I pray you are not, we will all meet our maker Face to Face and be held accountable for every false accusation, and how we love God and one another.

Trust in Jesus, he IS the WHOLE TRUTH and will lead us to all TRUTH.

NICKELSVILLE “TENT CITY” BEING SHUTDOWN BY SEATTLE MAYOR

The City of Seattle, WA has evicted 91 homeless campers in the Nickelsville tent city outside Seattle, WA. The City of Seattle has said that it has plenty shelter for those who are residing in the tent city; however, the One Night Count (think “Street Survey”) of King County this past January found that there was insufficient shelter for the city’s 6,000 homeless individuals.

The tent city was organized by SHARE/WHEEL, a homeless activist group in Seattle.

The story on the eviction can be read at the Seattle Times website. Click here.

See story behind the jump for background. Note: the story behind the jump was written prior to the eviction.



DEADLINE PASSES FOR "NICKELSVILLE"

City’s eviction crews fail to show up.

“We don’t announce when the cleanup will happen,” said Karin Zaugg Black, Nickels’ spokeswoman. Some of the campers and their supporters believe the city will take action Friday.

http://homelessalliance.wordpress.com/2008...-seattle-mayor/

Truecoug,

Welcome to this forum and I wanted to say that I agree with you. It is not the job of government to blindly provide for every citizens needs. Those that fall on bad luck or those that are just plain lazy. Just not Nanny's job. I am not heartless as I say this. I feel for people who are in such dire circumstances. It is our job as Christians to help those less fortunate after-all WWJD? But it is not the job of government! Our constittion doesn't support the dependence of American people to our government in our constitution. Democracy can not be bought, but socialism can be. The American people need to ask themselves if they prefer socialism or democracy after-all we can not have both. One saying always sticks in the back of my mind: "Good intentions can pave a pathway to hell." By the goodness of our hearts we have created so much dependency on Government in the US. Government should have been teaching her citizens to fish instead of takiing on the role of provider and Nanny.

Christians we need to step up to first base and help as many hurting people this year as we can. Help financially and with your prayers, please. Those of us that have a full time job are blessed and need to share some of the profits. Folks what we think we own we really don't own. God owns all and has blessed some of us so much. God may be leading some of us to help the tent people. And the good thing is that we can't outgive God. Everything we think we own we don't own. We have been blessed and everything is the Lords.

Gods Blessings,

Al

I previously experienced 3 years of being homeless (I lived out of my Jeep, then Blazer, for about 2 1/2 years (off and on renting a motel room on weekends or Sundays). For 6 months of those roughly 3 years, I lived in a 10'x20' storage unit in Bend, Oregon - this was between October of 2000 and March of 2001. Now, at the time I was homeless there, Bend was a city of about 50,000 people, and was relatively prosperous. It is also in Central Oregon, and quite cold in the winters.

While I was in Bend, and living out of the storage unit, I got to know a number of other homeless people, and came to find out that there was a mini "tent city" on the outskirts of Bend to the north (I never visited the "tent city" myself, though). I got the impression that there might have been between 20-50 "residents" in that "tent city" (just a feeling, really, based on how many homeless people I got to know who said they lived there [not all of them did], and what they said happened there, and the number of other residents there that they referred to whom I had never met).

It happened, sometime in January and February of 2001 (I think), that two "tent city" residents, both of whom I knew, eventually died from exposure to the cold. One of these two was turned away from an urgent care facility because he had no insurance, apparently just minutes before he died. After having been turned away, he tried to walk the roughly 5 miles back to the "tent city", and was found by two of his homeless friends dead on the sidewalk which followed the main highway back to the north of Bend, that highway passing close by the "tent city". (They told me the story the next day, and had been the ones to convince him to go to the urgent care clinic, and they had helped him make the walk there [whereupon, convinced he would receive the care he needed, they went on their way, only to later find him dead on the sidewalk as they made their way back to the camp].)

God specifically called me to reach the homeless, by the way, back in 1998, when I was in Colorado Springs. He did so via a waking vision (which was really three visions in one), and against my wishes (that is, I didn't want to become homeless myself, which is what was "required" in order to reach the homeless). That was for a time, and though I have a heart for the homeless, I do not now feel called to "reach" them - I am still, however, apparently called to "reach" the poor and suffering, and God places me in situations where I share in their experiences, quite often. (This paragraph is simply to clarify where I am currently, so that others don't think I'm homeless myself any longer [because I'm not].)

you are special.. and especially to the Lord you serve..

much brotherly? sisterly? love to you, GodsWord

that is a beautiful testimony and truth that you share...

i followed the Lord's leading and ended up for a season working with the
mentally ill homeless.

the Lord has allowed me to witness this and witness Christ within this reality,
but more than that to intercede for the outcasts and unfortunates among us.

i am faced with the understanding that in reality there is nothing but a wall
between me and the street. the Lord Jesus Christ is my wall, my rock, my
shield and my strength. i have experienced being as one outside the
tabernacle and city and learned to fellowship with Him and watch.

many are called to a reality that deepens their faith and deepens their
relationship with God through Christ. these are the marks of His wounds
and these are the marks of discipleship. amen?

you have blessed me with your story. thank you.

shalom,
signet

AMERICAN'S "TENT CITY" OF FAILURE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvyubNLbbjo


http://www.westcoaster.ca/modules/AMS/arti...hp?storyid=5776


Activist Moving Homeless People Into Foreclosed Houses in Miami
Homes with No People, People with No Homes

http://www.70news.com/2008/12/14/activist-...ouses-in-miami/


TENT CITY
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tent_city