This week I keep getting slapped in the face. I was asked to share my story at AT/DC the other night and as I started to reflect about everything I was just slammed with the seriousness of homelessness, what God has done for me and how very lucky I am to have gotten off the streets and still be able to formulate a sentence.

Yesterday a co-worker asked me to help a friend who was trying to help a homeless person. As I was doing a little research I found these videos and I have been messed up ever since. Yesterday driving home from work and then to and from church each homeless person I saw, and there are many, I could literally feel their pain.

As a TV producer and a fundraiser I feel these videos are excellent. As a person who once lived homeless on the streets of Los Angeles these videos do a very good job of capturing the seriousness of the situation. I hope you take the time to watch more than one, and my prayer is that you will be motivated into action. At the very least please share a link to this post with a friend. You may be a long way from LA yet homelessness will affect you and your neighborhood very soon.

*** there are a very small number of “colorful” words in a few of these videos. If they stop you from viewing, or if you are more offended by such language than the issues facing our nation’s poor, go read a nice and fluffy blog because this ain’t one!

Skid Row Part 1: Introduction

Skid Row Part 2: Kids

Skid Row Part 3: Drugs

Skid Row Part 4: God

Skid Row Part 5: Afterword

Tags: Homeless

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