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Pastor Bernie Lindley at St. Timothy s Episcopal Church in Brookings. With few resources for homeless people in Curry County Lindley s church congregation has helped homeless residents in need.
There was an alarming increase in the number of homeless people who died in towns on Oregon’s Southwest coast during the pandemic. While there’s no single cause, it all comes back to housing.
On a recent Sunday in St. Timothy’s Episcopal Church in Brookings, Father Bernie Lindley is holding a service about charity and healing and good will.
“Peter, empowered by his faith and the witness of Jesus Christ, sees this man and heals this man, and the man gets up at once and dances for joy,” Lindley says to the dozen parishioners seated throughout the small church.
In an early April interview, Solotaroff said CCC s approach is based around identifying the root causes that drive people into homelessness so that you can begin to think about how you can address each of those root causes, or even better, you can try to address multiple root causes at once through a combined intervention.
Solotaroff said that at CivicCon, she will describe for people what our organization, Central City Concern, sees as those root causes, as those drivers. I also want to be sure to describe for people what Central City Concern is and how we work, because . if your mission is about ending homelessness not just at the individual level, but actually advancing the art and the science of ending homelessness you ve got to get your arms around those different complex factors, she said.