Breaking Down the Walls: Warehouse Facilitator Mike Casertano
Everyday Mike prays a quick prayer. “Prepare hearts before me, and give me divine appointments.” As Warehouse Facilitator, Mike receives all of your donated goods. And this season is especially busy. Over the holidays we get an outpouring of support as people bring in their “non-perishables” and donated goods. As you can imagine, it take […]
Stuff-A-Buggy
Driving up in electric wheelchair full of groceries, a man wounded during the attacks on 911 knows how important it is to give back, saying “I’ve been blessed by others, now I want share what I have.” A young girl picked out food for our guests after learning for the first time how so many […]
18 Things We Are Thankful For
“And now we thank you, our God, and praise your glorious name.” 1 Chronicles 29:13 Thanksgiving here at Water Street has been filled with good food and great fellowship. Our community once again came together to celebrate and to give thanks. Even so, Thanksgiving can be a painful holiday for many in our community. Some […]
Love Language of the Organized: Maria Asin, Office Manager of Water Street Health Services
As Office Manager, Maria discusses how she uses her skills to help prepare Health Services to be ready when the next urgent case walks through the door. Decades after fleeing a life-threatening dictatorship in South America, Cristobal* found himself living on the street. Having grown too old to keep working and facing major medical issues […]
More Than Work: Step Up Director Mike Mason
“Work can be a place where people can serve other people the way God has gifted and wired them.”
Grand Opening of Providence Shelter: Water Street Mission’s New Emergency Shelter
Today Water Street Mission was excited to celebrate the Grand Opening of Providence Shelter. Before we cut the Ribbon, opening a new chapter for Water Street, we got to hear more about what this project means, not just to our guests, but to Lancaster County as a whole. Why the new shelter? Coming to a […]
Peace
“I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.” John 16:33 The threat of illness/aging, family relationships, baby mama drama, church struggles, fears, gang war, injustice, madmen run amuck, death and terror attacks from home […]
Celebrating Joy
For John the Baptist has come eating no bread and drinking no wine; and you say, “he has a demon!” The Son of man came eating and drinking; and you say “here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners” Luke 7:33-34 One of the accusations made by the religious […]
Rooted In Love
From our Campus Pastor, Michael Booth: Eph. 3:16-19 “… He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man. So that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you being rooted and grounded in Love may be able to […]
Hugs from the Outreach Center
One day, Michele popped in to check out the Outreach Center – our community food bank. She waited in line for some groceries and looked around, reflecting on every face she saw. How did they end up here, she’d think. Then she thought about her own story. A back injury had put her out of […]