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A True Love Story from the Streets of Seattle

For 27 years Brian aimlessly wandered Seattle's streets. Sleeping under bridges and among garbage heaps. Drifting. Hungry. Friendless. Freezing. Brian was placed in foster care at 12, and arrested for the first time at 18 for robbery. After that, he found himself homeless or in jail most of the time.

He was sleeping outside near Pioneer Square when he noticed Seattle's Union Gospel Mission on Second Avenue. "It was at this low point of my life that I learned of New Creations -- a Christian recovery and discipleship program at the Mission designed to help men change their lives." The residential recovery program combines therapy, drug and alcohol recovery, academics, computer classes and Bible study, to help restore new life to men like Brian.

Now fast-forward five years. Brian, now a well-established staff member at the Mission, met and married the woman of his dreams last year. The miracles did not stop there. On the day of his wedding, he was reunited with his birth mother and younger sister. What a joyful occasion!

Today when Brian stands before a crowd of homeless men at the Mission he wonders how he can reach discouraged dads, confused addicts and abandoned sons. He decides to tell them a love story! "For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life." (John 3:16)

 

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