I’m sending you this email because Joe is dead.

I think we could have helped.

The house I emailed you about a couple weeks ago - an outpost in the heart of the Sunnyslope neighborhood, where we’ve ministered to the homeless and poor for 4 years - could have been an escape for Joe.

An escape from the heat. Maybe from the alcohol. Maybe from the heartache.

But the combination killed him, one blistering hot day last month.

I’m emailing to ask you once again to give a generous gift, whatever contribution you can make, to help us buy a house and set it up as a place to welcome “the least of these” that Jesus talked about.

We need a total of $35,000. As I write you this email, friends have generously given $8,500.

What part could you play in saving lives, changing lives, giving fresh hope to the lives of desperate people like Joe?

You can see a picture of Joe and read Kim’s and my personal eulogy at Joe Muzquiz Eulogy.

But I hope you’ll also give. I don’t mean to be heavy-handed or manipulative. But I care deeply about the people God has called us to care for - and I truly do not want to do another memorial service for someone like Joe, dead on the street.

Please pray about this and respond however God leads you to respond. Thank you. I appreciate you.

Grace & Peace,

Mike