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Category: Bishop’s Task Force to the Unhoused

Updates from the Bishop’s Task Force on Homelessness

** I apologize to John Hoyte for the incorrect spelling of his name in the June 28 column, whose name appears here in its’ correct form.  Thankfully, John is still…

Updates from the Bishop’s Task Force on Homelessness

What part do relationships play in outreach at your parish? As I think about the programs highlighted in this column over the past year, what strikes me is how integral…

Updates from the Bishop’s Task Force on Homelessness

From Don Fornoff, Bishop’s Task Force on Homelessness: Please allow me to make something as clear as I possibly can. I look for articles and information about homelessness not so…

Happenings, Discussions, and Manna Bags: Updates from the Bishop’s Task Force on Homelessness

From Don Fornoff, Bishop’s Task Force on Homelessness: Homelessness continues to be an in-front-of-us topic in the news, the Supreme Court, and politics. The Supreme Court case Johnson V. Grant’s…

Updates from the Bishop’s Task Force on Homelessness: Building a Place Where Love Dwells

From Don Fornoff, the Bishop’s Task Force on Homelessness: The title is the name of the St. Luke’s redevelopment project in Ballard (North Seattle). About such a project, it isn’t…

Updates from the Bishop’s Task Force on Homelessness

From Don Fornoff, Bishop’s Task Force on Homelessness: Your task force met last Saturday, sharing and considering many ideas as we are wont to do – and I want to…

Updates from the Bishop’s Task Force on Homelessness

From Don Fornoff, the Bishop’s Task Force on Homelessness: Your Taskforce correspondent spends a lot of time reading articles for up-to-date information on homelessness. Others I read to gain more…

Updates from the Bishop’s Task Force on Homelessness

From Don Fornoff, the Bishop’s Task Force on Homelessness: I wish I could say that many activities to address homelessness are taking place these days. It sometimes feels as though…

Updates from the Bishop’s Task Force on Homelessness

From Don Fornoff, Bishop’s Task Force on Homelessness: I have enjoyed writing this column on behalf of the Bishop’s Task Force on Homelessness because I want to keep all of…

Updates from the Bishop’s Task Force on Homelessness

From Don Fornoff, Bishop’s Task Force on Homelessness: Over the past several written pieces for the Diocesan Enews, I have misspelled the word homelessness as I type and corrected it…

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