by Jim Palmer | Sep 6, 2013 | blog
“There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.” As we focus our efforts toward rescuing more people off the streets of Orange County, these words of Nelson Mandela cut right to my heart....
by Jim Palmer | Aug 27, 2013 | blog
As I arrived at the office each day last week, I crossed paths with an ecstatic flock of freshly sun-screened faces of Village of Hope children. As they boarded a bus each day to attend their designated summer activity, I couldn’t help but think how generous a...
by Jim Palmer | Aug 14, 2013 | blog
How do we open the eyes of children to new opportunities? They don’t know what they don’t know! Mind, body and soul are just the basic aspects to consider when you are working toward reversing generations of dysfunction and unhealthy lifestyles. At the...
by Jim Palmer | Aug 5, 2013 | blog
… to the Circus! Taking kids to the circus for the first time is almost more entertaining than the actual acrobats and elephants. Eleven 3 and 4 year-olds from the Orange County Rescue Mission were granted a trip to the circus yesterday where they all had the...
by Jim Palmer | Aug 2, 2013 | blog
What do hiking, tennis, and rocket launching have to do with homelessness? How about offering all of these summer camp perks to kids who have come off the streets and are being equipped to break future generations of homelessness? Concordia University faculty and...
