By Pastor Steve Babbitt

Last Monday night we received the first participants in the Safe Overnight Parking Program, and everything went very smoothly. I came out before sunrise on Tuesday morning to pray for our guests and learn how the operation worked in the mornings, and it was refreshingly clean, quiet, and orderly. The staff at Dreams for Change really know what they are doing. I was even stopped by one of the 24/7 security guards who wanted to know who I was and why I was on the grounds so early!

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