My wife and I had just dropped off a couple to a meth rehab facility. We’ve been working with them for some time now and have prayed the trust developed over the years may someday lead to them coming to us when they were ready to seek help for the struggles they face. They have been homeless for nearly seven years.

We’re driving back home and the phone rings… it’s a colleague who helps my wife with the really tough cases in getting identification for those living on the streets and have lost all forms of ID. It’s a HUGE problem for homeless folks to get ID. Kim’s been working with “long hair Scotty” (his street name) for the past several months and has hit one roadblock after another and is not much farther along than when she started.

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