We spent most of the weekend at the new Guadalupe House , trying to make the city inspector happy.  A Detroit mother and her three school-aged children are waiting for the all-clear signal to move in.  The upstairs unit if the house will be used, for now, as short-term, crisis housing, as the need may [...]

We worked with a skeleton crew yesterday–two at American Family Planning and two at Summit.  The Summit counselors reported that they gave out a lot of our material and that the numbers there were not as high as in previous weeks.  Over at American Family Planning, our friend Chris, who goes there every day, says [...]

Again there were only three of us at American Family Planning, since I have asked that any additional sidewalk counselors join Patrick at Summit in order to deal with the high volume of clients there.  At Summit, then, I was very happy to see Kristine out again.  Our friend Steve, from Ann Arbor, also helped [...]

It was an extremely sad day at the Summit Saturday.  Around thirty women went in for abortions.  This was the highest number that we have seen since our presence there starting in March 2009.  John Peters, who has been sidewalk counseling there for more than a decade, has warned us that he has seen numbers [...]

A black cloud dominated the sky to the south.  I was forced to turn  and stare at it, because the bitter cold wind out of the north pushed my face in the opposite direction.  The street was very quiet, except for one municipal truck which was taking the garland and bows off of the street light poles.  [...]