Project offers free services to homeless
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MOBILE, Alabama (WALA) The Homeless Coalition teamed up with Housing First Inc. for the eighth annual Project Homeless Connect at The Grounds in West Mobile on Thursday.
Project Homeless Connect is a one-day event that connects people who are experiencing homelessness with valuable services and resources all under one roof, free of charge.
“If you had anything legal that was hanging over your head for instance. The courts are here to listen to you, the attorneys are here to help you,” said Derek Boulware, the chief executive officer of Housing First Inc. “The doctors and nurses are here to help you physically to sort of get you to a place where you can start your process on coming out of homelessness.”
Evangelical Lutheran Church elects first transgender bishop By Caitlin O Kane Exploring gender identification
The Reverend Megan Rohrer has been elected bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America s Sierra Pacific synod on Saturday – making them the first transgender person to serve as bishop in any major Christian faith in the U.S.
The San Francisco-based bishop has served as pastor of Grace Lutheran Church since 2014, the ELCA said in a press release. Rohrer is also community chaplain coordinator for the San Francisco Police Department. They also served as a community garden coordinator for Project Homeless Connect and has worked to serve the homeless and hungry.
May 4, 2021 Press Release
San Francisco – Speaker Nancy Pelosi joined Mayor London Breed at the Grand Opening of the Edwin M. Lee Apartments at Mission Bay. Below are the Speaker’s remarks:
Speaker Pelosi. Peace, joy, hope, love, Norman, he’s still here, but he s also – we re joined by Malcolm as well. Malcolm Yeung, thank you. Thank you to Chinatown Community Development Center.
The Mayor talked about this taking a village, and I want to follow up on her very apt theme. And this village is led by Mayor London Breed. She – on this housing subject for her whole official life and probably before that in a volunteer basis. So, many of the things that came to fruition here, have their roots in work that she did as a supervisor, and of course now as Mayor.