You don’t raise money to help with a houseless problem. You don’t hear about the houseless and the tragedy that it is. You raise money to help with a homeless problem. You hear about the homeless…those who have had their security and safety taken away. You hear about those who have lost their place of comfort and refuge. You hear about the displaced…displaced from what? From a building? What is a building without the memories you make in it? What is a house that has no heart in it?

Shelter 127 is less about building homes out of bricks to restore possessions and more about building homes out of grace to restore hope. The same grace that is given to those of us who accept the sacrifice that Jesus made on the cross. The grace that you can’t earn and certainly don’t deserve. Shelter 127 is about building grace, faith, and hope in a people who have lost it all. Home means hope.