Street Stories

SHOW LESSRobert was just like every other homeless we serve on a weekly basis, except for one thing - he liked to paint his nails and wear blouses. He was a quiet mannered, respectful, nice man. He said painting his nails made him feel pretty, and he just wanted to feel pretty sometimes. We love everyone in our ministry, no matter what they are wearing - but we can't say the same for some in our society. On one particular day, some "tough" guys would take it out on Robert for how he was dressed, and Robert's life would never be the same again.  Listen in as Pastor Skip tells the story of Robert.

She was spotted up head next to the famous Varsity restaurant downtown Atlanta. Old, arthritic, and bound to a wheelchair. After meeting Fritz for the first time, it was clear to Pastor Skip that this lady would be someone to remember. As it happens with most of the people we meet on the street, they bless us more than we can bless them. 

And so it was with Fritz - barely any teeth, homeless in a wheelchair, but smiling from ear to ear.  Here is her story.  

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Lindsay was a fighter. A man who struggled with drugs most of his life and came to know Christ later in life. During one of our Sunday dinners, Pastor Skip was teaching the Parable of the 4 Soils and God spoke to Lindsay that day. At that moment Lindsay's eternity was changed forever, but his life would still come with many struggles.   His main struggle would always be cocaine, and it would ultimately result in his death, during a drug deal gone wrong.   Listen in on the beautiful story of Lindsay, a friend to Pastor Skip and a brother in Christ.   www.wots4homeless.com/give

Pastor Skip knew Chris from back in his High School teacher days, when Chris was his student. Fast forward quite a few years, and Skip is teaching Chris, but not academics. Tune in to hear the story of how Pastor Skip and Chris crossed paths years later, and how WOTS has impacted Chris's life.

In this episode of Street Stories, we get to know Annette, a small but courageous lady living on the street in the heart of St. Pete, FL.  During a family trip for his grandson's birthday, Skip had the chance to meet Annette. We learned of her distaste for funnel cake, but her love of Chinese food, smiling, and hugs! It was a blessing to meet her and we think you'll be blessed as well.

In this episode of Street Stories, Pastor Skip recounts his interaction with a man who knew his weaknesses and wasn't afraid to shoot straight. He was an addict, a liar, in danger, and also a good friend.  This episode discusses difficult topics including, drug abuse, and death by fatal gunshots.  Please be advised.

A "random" encounter with a man who would have remained nameless, until Pastor Skip crossed his path.  Knowing his name was only half the story.  Listen in as Pastor Skip details this amazing interaction with a homeless man who nobody knew until that day.

*This was recorded on Pastor Skip's family farm. Please forgive us for the poor quality of sound. Between 7:00 & 9:20, you'll there is a lot of background chicken noise we just could not reduce.  Please try and listen around that, there is so much quality information in this episode.

A little different from our regular podcast stories. Here's an episode we did last year with our co-minister and long-time WOTS team member Dennis "Bishop" Heartfield.  He has been with our team since the beginning and we are so blessed to call him a friend and co-minister here at WOTS. Please enjoy his perspective on seeing our ministry for the first time and how it impacted his life and ultimately set him on a course to work with the homeless here at Word on the Street.

People were living their "normal" life and then a life-changing event happened. Loss of job, divorce, rape, etc. There are all kinds of reasons that put people on the street.  Well now we have another reason and it's called COVID. Right now we're averaging as many as 15-20 new people in this ministry per day, and many of them are female, and many of the females are on the street because of COVID.