What is it like to work at the HTC during a global pandemic?

Just give.

I’m happy to be doing what I love.

Stewardship at the HTC

Remarks from the Interfaith Memorial Service 2019

We often say “homelessness could happen to anyone.”

Stories from our guests

I thought “Oh my goodness, this situation seems rather hopeless. How’s he going to get from one place to the next when he can barely walk 3 feet in front of him?”

The Harry Tompson Center is a place where we do just that, meet people where they are. 

It hurts me that some of the people that I was with out there actually died last year and didn’t survive. Some of them were the ones who encouraged me not to give up.

 He tended to sleep just about every day until around noon and then disappear, but then would reappear the next morning intoxicated once again. For years we repeated the same pattern…

Someone had found a spindly, three foot branch from a Christmas tree and brought it to the camp. All of a sudden, there is a communal effort to put together a little tree.

This is just life happening, so you learn to fight for it and not squander it…