As seen on the City of Sioux Falls website “Every night in Sioux Falls, homeless children, women, and men are in need of shelter and supportive services. They live in shelters, transitional living facilities, vehicles, outdoors, in places not meant for human habitation, with strangers they have just met, or at imminent risk of being displaced from their residence,” says Colleen Moran, Assistant...

With a goal of gathering in Christian community around art, fun, and fellowship, the first COTS Arts in the Park was a success! Thank you to Darby Hurd for organizing the event and to all who helped make it a success. Thank you to Holy Cross for your partnership, water, freezies, flip-flops and even temporary tattoos; and Nightwatch Ministries for the use of the food truck. Over 180 COTS t-shirts...

Journey: "God, my family and I are homeless at the moment. I ask God to renew my heart, as well as my fiance's soul so that we can become one unit and more like him. Someday we can raise our children different and guide them in the way of the Lord and guide us as we grow in the Lord." Annonymous: "I was homeless for about two years- way too long. I was given a place to be. I was doing everythin...

Thank you to First Lutheran for supporting laundry with love in July! They provided the quarters for both of our Laundry with Love nights this month as well as the food and many extras like new laundry baskets, bleach and fabric softener.  Thank you to everyone who has donated so that Laundry with Love can continue to share Christ’s love while helping people get clean!

We avoided the rain and had a great night at the laundromat! Thank you to Jean Hoff and Diane Dahl who provided snacks to munch on and Bethany Lutheran of Howard for the wonderful draw string laundry bags which were a big hit! Thanks also to all of you who have donated cash and quarters to fund these laundry nights. We couldn’t do it without all of you!  I would imagine that most of you readi...

Jeremy: I pray for clarity of mind in the most confusing part of my life so far. God please guide me on my journey and help me make the right decisions.  Roxanne: I picked up the habit of drinking it helps me forget the pain. I even self-harmed myself but ended up in the physic ward for a day. I'm so lost without my mother. Yet I'm so angry I don't want her coming back. I have a lot of healing....