Homeless spend Christmas at Temple

From the NY Times:

Newly homeless families will bunk here for two weeks before moving to another house of worship — and then another and another….

In the Oneg Shabbat room at Temple Isaiah in Lafayette, children hooked angels on a tall Christmas tree.

I participated once with a team of churches that alternated providing a dinner and shelter once a week, as I recall.  So often homeless people are invisible. These rotating shelters help parishoners gain a short glimpse of homelessness. Sadly, nearly every semester I have at least once student explain to me that they are either homeless or “housing challenged”. I wonder how many of their peers realize they have homeless students in their midst.

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