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Related: About this forumSt. Boniface Church In San Francisco Lets Homeless People Sleep In Pews (xpost from GD)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/31/st-boniface-church-san-francisco_n_2592275.htmlFor the citys homeless, San Franciscos St. Boniface Church is seen as a safe haven.
The nonprofit known as the Gubbio Project partners with the Roman Catholic church to let the citys homeless sleep on its pews during daylight hours, even during Mass, and provides a host of services to hundreds of those who are forced to leave when homeless shelters close in the morning, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.
"Part of the craziness you run into on the streets with homeless people is drugs and alcohol related, but some is severe lack of sleep, which can cause psychosis," Rev. Tommy King, a pastor at St. Boniface told the Chronicle. "This helps them in terms of mental health."
Every weekday the program uses the sanctuarys rear 76 pews between 6 a.m. and 1 p.m. while providing access to the churchs amenities like bathrooms, blankets, clothing vouchers and haircuts, executive director Laura Slattery told the Huffington Post in an email.
The nonprofit known as the Gubbio Project partners with the Roman Catholic church to let the citys homeless sleep on its pews during daylight hours, even during Mass, and provides a host of services to hundreds of those who are forced to leave when homeless shelters close in the morning, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.
"Part of the craziness you run into on the streets with homeless people is drugs and alcohol related, but some is severe lack of sleep, which can cause psychosis," Rev. Tommy King, a pastor at St. Boniface told the Chronicle. "This helps them in terms of mental health."
Every weekday the program uses the sanctuarys rear 76 pews between 6 a.m. and 1 p.m. while providing access to the churchs amenities like bathrooms, blankets, clothing vouchers and haircuts, executive director Laura Slattery told the Huffington Post in an email.
And this is just down the street from the church that poured water over them until it got caught!
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St. Boniface Church In San Francisco Lets Homeless People Sleep In Pews (xpost from GD) (Original Post)
KamaAina
Mar 2015
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valerief
(53,235 posts)1. Wow, but what if they steal the votive candles? That's a mortal sin. Letting these folks
die in the streets isn't a mortal sin. Not in America anyway.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,661 posts)2. Kudos to St. Boniface!
They are the good guys in SF!
Cleita
(75,480 posts)3. Why just the Churches?
It seems we should be opening all our public government buildings, especially the legislative and judicial buildings, to the homeless until the PTB get the message that they need to pass legislation to end this problem.