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Here and Now devo Nov 24

by David Joynt on November 24, 2022


ISAIAH 58:7-8 |  7Is it not to share your bread with the hungry and bring the homeless poor into your house; when you see the naked, to cover them and not to hide yourself from your own kin? 8 Then your light shall break forth like the dawn, and your healing shall spring up quickly; your vindicator shall go before you; the glory of the Lord shall be your rear guard.

What we give and do here at VPC helps Family Promise deal with homelessness in the Valley. Family Promise now has three networks of churches that help hundreds of families move from the street into housing, all at one-third the cost and half the time of a regular shelter. In addition, they have short stay recovery days for single people, they work with landlords to help families avoid eviction, and they are developing a new effort to provide affordable housing.

Pray for Family Promise, for Ted Taylor the Director, and for our own Keith Kerber, Director of Development.

 

Tags: homeless, shelter

About the Author
David Joynt

Dave Joynt began his service as a pastor at Valley Presbyterian Church in Paradise Valley, Arizona in September 2014. This meant a move away from the Northeast, where he has a long history, growing up in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and then serving congregations in Delaware and New Jersey for a total of 23 years.

Dave was nurtured in a great church in Bethlehem where his parents, Anne and Carey, served as elders. He graduated in classics from Lehigh University where his Father taught, and then from Oxford, where he met his wife Julia. Ordained in 1988, he completed a Ph.D. from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1993.

He and Julia have a son, Tristan, and a daughter, Madeleine.

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