If “children are our future,” what are we doing to help homeless kids become confident, productive and moral adults? That’s a question we ask a lot at Raleigh Rescue Mission. And the answers guide us as we develop ministries such as our Children’s Development Center.
“When I was four, my dad left the house. I was only 11 or 12 when he died,” Henley recounts. From then on, he says, “Bad decisions became the focus of my story.”
Cedric was living a life most of us know only from the movies. Transported by two vehicles—cocaine and freight trains—for three-and-a-half years, Cedric traveled the United States with little more than the clothing on his back.
Pamela is a soft-spoken, 45-year-old gentlewoman who is determined to prevail. “I don’t give up, I keep pressing forward, and I pray,” she says firmly.
James met a lot of incredible people in his 12-year marketing career. But when a failed business deal cost him millions, his marriage ended and his occasional use of cocaine evolved into binging.
Carrie’s 10-year relationship with the father of her children had become unbearable. At 29, she had left him several times, but loneliness and codependence drove her back again and again.
