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Project Dignity

serving the homeless with dignity, humility & love

This ain’t no Magic Bus

Of all the mistakes I continue to make, that’s one I never made again

Of all the mistakes I continue to make, that’s one I never made again

The fact you aren’t homeless and can come and go at will, coupled with all of the services you provide gives you a huge amount of power with your clients.

I learned this the hard way one day. Luckily once was enough to change my attitude forever. I think anyone who makes a decision to serve as a volunteer does it out of the purest of motives, meaning only good things for the people they serve. Certainly they never mean harm, but it happens.

One day out in the motels I was feeling tired, cranky, whatever—it doesn’t really matter now, this isn’t about me (and that is the point). My mind & heart weren’t in the right place. One of our clients, Sandy, complained that we didn’t have something she needed. I snapped back just as crossly as she did. The transformation in Sandy was instant and devastating to me.

She cringed, she actually cringed. She deflated right in front of my eyes and began to apologize profusely. We smoothed it over and went on. However, at 3 o’clock in the morning, (which is when I tend to do my best reflecting) I cried that I had that much power over another human being. I didn’t want that much power. I turned it over to the Lord and asked him to please help me to never do that again.

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December 10, 2013 /// Filed Under: Matters of the Heart, Working with Adults /// Tagged With: Adults, heart, homeless, humor, mistake, motels

What We Do

While we don’t feel anyone can ever fully understand the motel situation, we believe we understand it better than most. To our knowledge we are the only local organization who is focusing their services solely on the homeless population living in residential motels and we’ve been doing it since 1996.

It’s a long haul from homelessness to home, so our programs “wraparound” the challenges. Our first objective is to ease the burdens of daily living for our clients by assisting with necessities most of us take for granted–food, clothing and hygiene items.

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A tribute to our Founder

In 1986 doctors told Linda Dunlap she had 6 months to live and she told them the Lord knew more about that than they did. She said He had a lot more work for her to do. She proved herself and God right by living another 22 ministry-packed years.

Linda went into the motels singlehandedly with nothing more than her backpack and a few medical supplies. She won the confidence of people who had never had anyone care about them or help them before. Her belief and vision that one person can make a difference grew into 10,000 people being helped annually by Project Dignity.

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