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Dear Family of our Lord Jesus Christ,
WOW WEE!
Just got off the phone this morning with Pastor Richard Gordon. What a joy! We both left each other better than we found each other! LOL! LOL! It is so Godly to make sure you and I leave people better than we found them! Amen PRAISE GOD!!!!
Leslie Mouser was telling me she got a kick out of my story yesterday of Reno singing to the fire truck siren! Amen!! Reno sure left those firefighters better than he found them! They had a hoot!Laughing so hard!! Laughter is so biblical!
Please be in prayer for Wanell Pate who will be having cancer surgery. Wanell is such a Dear Sister in Christ, been our friend and mentor for years. Wanell has breast cancer, her prognosis is very good! Wanell serves on the FGGAM Board as does long time friend and mentor Kathy Garcia who also has been diagnosed with cancer, early catch, meaning good prognosis, Kathy will be having surgery in December. We are praying healing over both Wanell and Kathy and believing in complete healing! In the name of Jesus Amen!
I just got off the phone with Kathy and she would like us to pray for her sisters Dorothy and Mary. Dorothy has had severe weight loss and is going to the Doctor and Mary is having very bad migraines, so bad that at times she cannot see! So let us pray for healing for Dorothy and Mary, in Jesus name, Amen!
I have included in the CUP a picture of Shannon who we have been praying for. Her dad, Pastor Marty Cooper sent me the picture. Marty reports Shannon is improving a bit, but has a long way to go after being shot in the chest. Shannon is 35 years old. Let us keep praying for Shannon, for complete healing, mentally and physically! In the name of Jesus, Amen! PS.Also pray for Shannon’s children and Mom and Dad, Pastor Marty and Paulette of Christ Full Deliverance Ministries in Rio Rancho, NM.
Let us storm heaven with prayers for Wanell, Kathy, Dorothy, Mary and Shannon.
PRAISE REPORT: I just talked with my friend Mike in Reserve, New Mexico and his Dad James is recovering in good shape after having two stents put in, after suffering a heart attack. It looks like he will, be out of the Socorro, New Mexico hospital this weekend. Thank you for your prayers!
You still can get tickets to the Son Broadcasting banquet this Friday night by calling Kitty at 505-345-1991. You have to call today! Congressman Steve Pearce is the Keynote speaker. It is at the Hyatt Regency at 330 Tijeras Ave. NW in Albuquerque. Reception is at 6pm with dinner at 7pm.
Let me share with you another story! FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER I belted out in song while preaching in Reserve Sunday! I took after Sharon who sang a song at her friends retirement, she shocked everybody! You see when we have the Lord we are not bashful, we share his glory to all around us.
So when I was preaching Sunday I started to sing..HOLY! HOLY! HOLY!
And then I sang it again!!!!
Isaiah says that Seraph’s surrounded the throne of God singing, “Holy, Holy, Holy……
They were emphasizing the greatness of his holiness and this is the only attribute of God in the Bible that is repeated three times!!!!!
Oh, only if people were more HOLY!
This reminds me of the time when God appeared to Moses in the form of a burning bush:
God instructed him to remove his shoes because he was on “HOLY GROUND” and Moses couldn’t look directly at the bush because of it’s power and glory! Amen!
Are you holy? How about singing with me? HOLY! HOLY! HOLY!
The sermon I gave on Sunday will soon be up at FGGAM.ORG, I will let you know! It is from a sermon that Pastor Robert Lewis passed along to me!
Okay I am going to write a bit on “What is the Church?”
Please pass this along to your Pastor, leaders, and all…………..
Thom S. Rainer wrote in then Sept/Oct edition of “Men of Integrity” that some Church leaders view membership as a modern business or organizational concept, so they reject the label as unbiblical. Membership, to the contrary, is very Biblical.
The Bible explains “members” differently that secular culture. Look at the term in 1 Corinthians 12:27-28: “Now you are the body of Christ, and individual members of it. And God has placed these in the Church” (HCSB)
Do you get the difference? Members of a church comprise the whole and are essential parts of it. The Apostle Paul would carry the body metaphor further and explain that members are individual parts of the body. That is why he concludes “The human body has many parts, but the many parts make up one whole body. So it is with the body of Christ” 1 Cor. 12:12
With Church membership, everyone has a role or function. We are all different, but we are necessary parts of the whole.
Each part, therfore, has to do its work. If each part does not do its job, the whole body does not function well. But if each part does its job well, the whole body is stronger.
When Paul was using the metaphor of the body to speak of the Church in 1 Corinthians 12, he did so for two primary reasons. First the body is a unified whole. Likewise, the Church is to be unified in its mission, purposes, ministries and activities.
Second, the body is not only unified, it is made up of many parts. Think about the parts noted in 1 Corinthians 12: 12-26: the foot, the hand, the ear is to hear, the eye is to see, the nose is to smell.
We who are Church members are all supposed to function in the Church. The concept of an inactive Church member is an oxymoron. Biblically, no such Church member really exists.
Such is the reason we are exhorted to know our gifts and abilities, so we can use them best to serve the Church for the glory of God. The fact that there is so much diversity in our Church is our strength. Everyone has a function. Everyone should be functioning. Everyone should have a role.
1 Corinthians 12:27…..You are the body of Christ; each and every one of you is a vital member.
Ephesians 4:16………….Christ makes the whole body fit together perfectly. As each part does its own special work, it helps the other parts grow, so that the whole body is healthy and growing and full of love. WOW! AMEN!
Is your particular Church healthy? Does it pass the test of the Word of God?
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The World We Live In Radio Podcast 11-17-14 with Pastor Dewey Moede Have you listened to this???? It is one of our most popular programs yet! Pastor Larry Moss is my guest! It is getting shared on Facebook and at FGGAM! Please listen and share! VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION! One man on Facebook called the program “INCREDIBLE!”and he passed it along to the staff at Heights Cumberland where Larry used to preach, this is not of me, but of God for HIS GLORY AMEN!

In the love of our Lord Jesus Christ, Dewey, Sharon, Family and FGGAM Team
Let us keep praying for each other and our families.
And all of God’s people said, AMEN!

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Dewey Moede

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Dear family of our Lord Jesus Christ,

WOW! Yesterday I was blessed to have Longtime Pastor and Christian radio commentator Larry Moss as my guest on our radio program, which airs on KDAZ AM730. For years Larry was the Pastor at Heights Cumberland and was on the radio for over 30 years in Albuquerque offering up a Biblical perspective on the news of the day. He now lives in Kentucky and is still preaching! Listen here please:

The World We Live In Radio Podcast 11-17-14 with Pastor Dewey Moede

I have to tell a cute story……….yesterday when Reno, Buffy and I went to the post office there was a fire truck in the parking lot. Now Reno, being the beagle he is, loves to sing along with fire truck sirens, police sirens no..he loves fire truck sirens!!! LOL! So I met the firemen and told them I was at one time a fireman and that my Dad and Grandpa were also. They loved hearing that, I also thanked for their service. I told them Reno loves to sing to the siren of fire trucks…..yep, you guessed it, they got in their fire truck and turned the red lights on and blew the siren right there in the parking lot and Reno right away started to sing along!!!!!!!!!! Buffy joined in with her barking! The firemen continued to sound the siren as they left the parking lot and they kept looking at Reno singing!!!! I don’t think I have laughed that hard and had that much fun in ages! Good clean fun and laughter, good for the soul! I love firefighters, they are true red, white and blue!

The following is from the CUP of May 6th, 2013. It gets many reads each day at FGGAM.ORG

I want to share with you this day the scripture the Lord has on my heart. Let us be reminded that the Bread of life is the Word of God, nothing else. During these days it is so important to read the Word of God, by doing so God will speak to you through the Holy Spirit. I am so thankful to have the Lord with me because the past few days I have had some bombs thrown at me, like I am sure you all have, and I was able to react in a Jesus like way, not a humanistic way. Not that it is easy, but it is a must.

Jesus prays in John 17: 20-24

My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me, and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one, I in them and you in me. May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.
Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world.

Amen! Amen! There is a message for you right there! I suggest getting a Bible with the Words of Jesus in red. God’s Word is the bread of life!

What are you chasing today?

Money? a Boat? a new suit? a new updated cell phone? a vacation? God never takes a vacation! I had to throw that in there!

Are you after God’s heart?

Questions to think about and not quickly dismiss. I was asked to pray for the Community of Taos as a murder happened there in the last few days, a young man drunk killed another young man. In Albuquerque area, we had these young girls and a young man, all under 21 kill a man and stuff him in the trunk of their car.

Why do you I bring this up in talking about God’s Word and the Bread of life?

Because, in fulfilling the Great Commission here at FGGAM we share that message, the Word of God, the bread of life, the love of Jesus Christ and it softens the hardest of hearts.

I have never been turned away from anybody proclaiming the Word and Love of Jesus Christ, that is not me it is JESUS! Ever since I became FILLED with the HOLY SPIRIT, GUIDED by GOD, not myself, God sends me to people that need to hear and see His Word, His love in action.

Many of you are experiencing the same wonderful gift! PRAISE GOD!

We must reach these young people before satan destroy’s their lives and they destroy the lives of others.

Some will say, that it’s none of their business, oh my friends if you are a lover of Jesus Christ it is your business.

Yesterday at the Post Office I was walking out and an elderly man with a cane was attempting to walk up and mail a letter, I quickly walked over to him and asked if I could mail that for him. He quickly handed it over to me to mail inside for him. That could have been you….and already many of you do that. People still trust people to do the right thing. I love the elderly! I am one of them!!!!!!!!!!! LOL LOL LOL! I look it anyway! Yesterday I had a young man running around the grocery store getting things I needed, WOW! What service! I encourage you not to be shy about showing the light of Jesus Christ, the World needs it more than ever! Do not conform to this World, Keep your light shining brightly for Jesus Christ. Let others experience the Love of Jesus Christ through your actions! AMEN!

The Bible is an awesome source of encouragement and inspiration. A Christian that is feeling down can search the scriptures for an attitude change. One of the most inspiring and uplifting subjects in the Bible is God’s love for us which he demonstrated by sending Jesus to die for our sins. I pray these ten Bible Verses will lift you today. If you are doing a Bible Study on this topic, try to memorize these scriptures and let God’s love shine through you. Feel free to use these Bible passages for a small group or Sunday school study or devotional. Please add any other Bible Verses about God’s love to the comments so this may become a greater resource for others who find it.
10 Awesome Bible Verses About God’s Love
God Sent Jesus
John 3:16
“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life.
1 John 4:9-12
By this the love of God was manifested in us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through Him. In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has beheld God at any time; if we love one another, God abides in us, and His love is perfected in us.
John 13:34-35

“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another. “By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.”
Romans 5:8

But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Nothing can separate us from the Love of God
Romans 8:37-39

But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
We are Crucified in Christ
Galatians 2:20

“I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and delivered Himself up for me.
Bible Verses showing God’s Love for Us
Psalm 37:28

For the LORD loves justice, And does not forsake His godly ones; They are preserved forever; But the descendants of the wicked will be cut off.
Proverbs 8:17

“I love those who love me; And those who diligently seek me will find me.
Deuteronomy 7:9

“Know therefore that the LORD your God, He is God, the faithful God, who keeps His covenant and His lovingkindness to a thousandth generation with those who love Him and keep His commandments;
1 John 3:1

See how great a love the Father has bestowed upon us, that we should be called children of God; and such we are. For this reason the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.I pray these Bible Verses about God’s Love will find a way into your heart.

This story is also posted at www.fggam.org, It is a story I pray that you and I live out everyday…………..Thanks to Darlene Quiring for sending in. For all the News and Inspirartion you need visit, www.fggam.org So many, many posting’s that will inform you and inspire you! For God’s Glory Alone!
The story starts out where Beth, is sitting at an airport terminal, waiting to board a plane. She was sitting there with several other people who were also waiting, whom she did not know.

As she waited, she pulled out her Bible and started reading. All of a sudden she felt as if the people sitting there around her, were looking at her. She looked up, but realized that they were looking just over her head, in the direction right behind her.

She turned around to see what everyone was looking at, and when she did, she saw a stewardess pushing a wheelchair, with the ugliest old man sitting in it, that she had ever seen before. She said he had this long white hair that was all tangled and such a mess. His face was really, really wrinkled, and he didn’t look friendly at all. She said she didn’t know why, but she felt drawn to the man, and thought at first that God wanted her to witness to him. In her mind she said she was thinking, “Oh, God, please, not now, not here.”

No matter what she did, she couldn’t get the man off of her mind, and all of a sudden she knew what God wanted her to do. She was supposed to brush this old man’s hair.

She went and knelt down in front of the old man, and said “Sir, may I have the honor of brushing your hair for you?”

He said “What?”

She thought, “Oh great, he’s hard of hearing.” Again, a little louder, she said, “Sir, may I have the honor of brushing your hair for you?”

He answered, “If you are going to talk to me, you are going to have to speak up, I am practically deaf.”

So this time, she was almost yelling, “Sir may I please have the honor of brushing your hair for you?”

Everyone was watching to see what his response would be. The old man just looked at her confused, and said “Well, I guess if you really want to.”

She said, “I don’t even have a brush, but I thought I would ask anyway.”

He said, “Look in the bag hanging on the back of my chair, there is a brush in there.”

So she got the brush out and started brushing his hair. She has a little girl with long hair, so she has had lots of practice getting tangles out, and knew how to be gentle with him. She worked for a long time, until every last tangle was out.

Just as she was finishing up, she heard the old man crying, and she went and put her hands on his knees, kneeling in front of him again looking directly into his eyes, and said “Sir, do you know Jesus?”

He answered, “Yes, of course I know Jesus. You see, my bride told me she couldn’t marry me unless I knew Jesus, so I learned all about Jesus, and asked Him to come into my heart many years ago, before I married my bride.”

He continued, “You know, I am on my way home to go and see my wife. I have been in the hospital for a long time, and had to have a special surgery in this town far from my home. My wife couldn’t come with me, because she is so frail herself.”

He said, “I was so worried about how terrible my hair looked, and I didn’t want her to see me looking so awful, but I couldn’t brush my hair, all by myself.”

Tears were rolling down his cheeks, as he thanked Beth for brushing his hair. He thanked her over and over again.

She was crying, people all around witnessing this were crying, and as they boarded the plane, the stewardess, who was also crying, stopped her, and asked, “Why did you do that?”

And right there was the opportunity, the door that had been opened to share with someone else, the love of God. We don’t always understand God’s ways, but be ready, He may use us to meet the need of someone else, like He met the need of this old man, and in that moment, also calling out to a lost soul who needed to know about His love.
— Author Unknown —
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Thank you for stopping by for a CUP!
For God’s Glory Alone in the love of our Lord Jesus Christ, Dewey, Sharon, family and FGGAM team
Let us keep praying for each other and our families and neighbors.
And all of God’s people said, AMEN!

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Thank you,

Dewey Moede

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Dear family of our Lord Jesus Christ,
Please pray for Sharon’s family, her cousin Danny McGinitier of Missouri passed away from injuries suffered in an accident. That is all the details we have. Please keep the family in your prayers.
Got a text from Pastor Marty Cooper reporting that Shannon has been moved out of trauma ICU into ICU. Her condition has improved somewhat. Thank you for your prayers.
Please pray for James of Reserve, New Mexico. he suffered a heart attack and is in the Socorro, New Mexico hospital recovering. James is the Dad of my friend Mike.
We thank the Lord for the new job that Laurie Milleson has! Praise God! Laurie is the lovely wife of Isaac Milleson our Chief Tchnical Officer here at FGGAM.
Here is the mailbag…………..

Dewey, Just read your daily cup. You mention never being popular. Very wise to accept
that call from God….I’m thinking that God would rather have children with
impact than popularity. The many things you listed all speak to impact. A very
Christ-like goal.I appreciate the simple yet profound thoughts you share. They speak to me often.
Have a great week.From Shona Neff in White Rock, New Mexico
Also this note:
We need men and women of God who speak and teach the truth of God’s word. Pastor Dewey Moede is one of those men. Be sure to read Dewey’s Daily Cup today.
From Shonda Savage in El Paso, Texas
God Bless you Shona and Shonda for the kind words……….
1 Cor. 1:31 Therefore, as it is written: “Let him who boasts boast in the Lord.” Amen!
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DYNAMITE For Your Monday!

Just doing my prep work for the radio program……..opened up the mail and we got a very beautiful, touching and sweet card from FGGAM supporter Ethan Carr of Albuquerque. Thank you so much Ethan for the kind words and your monthly support of our efforts for God and His people. As it reads in Proverbs 16:24…….one of my favorite scriptures……Kind words are like honey….sweet to the soul and healthy for the body. We so much appreciate all of your love and support! For God’s Glory Alone! This is a picture of the front of the card Ethan sent us! It is just so encouraging to get hand written notes and cards! I am blessed to tell you that we get more than a hand full each moth, and it super encourages us to be dynamite for our LORD! Thank you so much to all tjhe supporters of FGGAM! God Bless you and yours forever and ever! PS, I almost forgot to tell you that we got a thank you card from the Tim Tebow foundation for posting a story on their efforts and we got credited for thousands of hits to that post! We are here to serve!!! For God’s Glory Alone! “To whom be glory for ever, Amen.” Romans 11:36 This should be the single desire of the Christian. All other wishes must be subservient and tributary to this one. The Christian may wish for prosperity in his business, but only so far as it may help him to promote this—-“To Him be glory for ever.” He may desire to attain more gifts and more graces, but it should only be that “To Him may be glory for ever.” You are not acting as you ought to do when you are moved by any other motive than a single eye to your Lord’s glory. As a Christian you are “of God, and through God,” then live “to God.” Let nothing ever set your heart beating so mightily as love to Him.” From Charles Spurgeon

A county cannot be great with 2.5 million homeless children. This is a severe breakdown in America. We are slipping away from God so very fast. We abuse our children, from abortion to parents killing their own children, beatings, to hunger to not having a place to lay their head. Sounds like Syria………no this is America! Shame on us! God is not happy with us!
Growing up in the 50’s and 60’s my parents would say when we did something bad, “Shame on you!: Even our school teachers would say it! It was a great way to convict us of wrong doing and get us to change our behavior. Now days if you use the word “shame” many accuse you of hate speech, so be it!
This is a challenge for the body of Christ, as it is our responsibility, our calling from Jesus Christ our Lord to take care of our children! Do not pawn this off as a government problem, the government needs to stay out of this problem as they are already destroying our children, allowing their death through abortion.
It is the Body of Christ, you and I, the church’s responsibility to care for God’s children.
We need to turn our church’s into care centers. Care for the soul’s of all.

Matthew 18: 2-6

He called a little child and had him stand among them. And he said: “I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Therefore, whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. “And whoever welcomes a little child like this in my name welcomes me. But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.
Food, sleep, safety, care of the soul.
We need to make room in our church’s for people to sleep, eat and get health and soul care.
If we allow our children to continue to be homeless we will continue to slip into hell.
We are allowing the American family to be ripped apart by Satan, through drugs, sex and money.
The government is not a daycare center, for heaven’s sake they cannot even take care of themselves. God never intended the government to be a daycare center for Him. It is our duty.
Revival starts with you and me and in our homes and neighborhoods.
Not assuming the responsibility for this problem is resulting in great judgement from God.
As the church, the body of Christ, we better get going here and open our doors to God’s children, or else.
Heaven forbid people who are making money off the homeless!
This report is from Franchesca Stevens of FGGAM News:
The number of homeless children in the U.S. has surged in recent years to an all-time high, amounting to one child in every 30, according to a comprehensive state-by-state report that blames the nation’s high poverty rate, the lack of affordable housing and the impacts of pervasive domestic violence.
Titled “America’s Youngest Outcasts,” the report being issued Monday by the National Center on Family Homelessness calculates that nearly 2.5 million American children were homeless at some point in 2013. The number is based on the Department of Education’s latest count of 1.3 million homeless children in public schools, supplemented by estimates of homeless pre-school children not counted by the DOE.
The problem is particularly severe in California, which has one-eighth of the U.S. population but accounts for more than one-fifth of the homeless children with a tally of nearly 527,000.
Carmela DeCandia, director of the national center and a co-author of the report, noted that the federal government has made progress in reducing homelessness among veterans and chronically homeless adults.
“The same level of attention and resources has not been targeted to help families and children,” she said. “As a society, we’re going to pay a high price, in human and economic terms.”
Child homelessness increased by 8 percent nationally from 2012 to 2013, according to the report, which warned of potentially devastating effects on children’s educational, emotional and social development, as well as on their parents’ health, employment prospects and parenting abilities.
The report included a composite index ranking the states on the extent of child homelessness, efforts to combat it, and the overall level of child well-being. States with the best scores were Minnesota, Nebraska and Massachusetts. At the bottom were Alabama, Mississippi and California.
California’s poor ranking did not surprise Shahera Hyatt, director of the California Homeless Youth Project.
The crux of the problem, she said, is the state’s high cost of living, coupled with insufficient affordable housing.
“People think, ‘Of course we are not letting children and families be homeless,’ so there’s a lot of disbelief,” Hyatt said. “California has not invested in this issue.”
Hyatt, 29, was homeless on and off throughout adolescence, starting when her parents were evicted when she was in 7th grade. At 15, she and her older brother took off and survived by sleeping in the tool sheds, backyards and basements of acquaintances.
“These terms like ‘couch surfing’ and ‘doubled-up’ sound a lot more polite than they are in practice,” she said. “For teenagers, it might be exchanging sex for a place to stay or staying someplace that does not feel safe because they are so mired in their day-to-day survival needs.”
Near San Francisco, Gina Cooper and her son, then 12, had to vacate their home in 2012 when her wages of under $10 an hour became insufficient to pay the rent. After a few months as nomads, they found shelter and support with Home & Hope, an interfaith program in Burlingame, California, and stayed there five months before Cooper, 44, saved enough to be able to afford housing on her own.
“It was a painful time for my son,” Cooper said. “On the way to school, he would be crying, ‘I hate this.’”
In mostly affluent Santa Barbara, the Transition House homeless shelter is kept busy with families unable to afford housing of their own. Executive director Kathleen Baushke said that even after her staff gives clients money for security deposits and rent, they go months without finding a place to live.
“Landlords aren’t desperate,” she said. “They won’t put a family of four in a two-bedroom place because they can find a single professional who will take it.”
She said neither federal nor state housing assistance nor incentives for developers to create low-income housing have kept pace with demand.
“We need more affordable housing or we need to pay people $25 an hour,” she said. “The minimum wage isn’t cutting it.”
Among the current residents at Transition House are Anthony Flippen, Savannah Austin and their 2-year-old son, Anthony Jr.
Flippen, 28, said he lost his job and turned to Transition House as his unemployment insurance ran out. The couple has been on a list to qualify for subsidized housing since 2008, but they aren’t counting on that option and hope to save enough to rent on their own now that Flippen is back at work as an electrician.
Austin, due to have a second child in December, is grateful for the shelter’s support but said its rules had been challenging. With her son in tow, she was expected to vacate the premises each morning by 8 a.m. and not return before 5 p.m.
“I’d go to the park, or drive around,” she said. “It was kind of hard.”
The new report by the National Center on Family Homelessness — a part of the private, nonprofit American Institutes for Research — says remedies for child homelessness should include an expansion of affordable housing, education and employment opportunities for homeless parents, and specialized services for the many mothers rendered homeless due to domestic violence.
Efforts to obtain more resources to combat child homelessness are complicated by debate over how to quantify it.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development conducts an annual one-day count of homeless people that encompasses shelters, as well as parks, underpasses, vacant lots and other locales. Its latest count, for a single night in January 2013, tallied 610,042 homeless people, including 130,515 children.
Defenders of HUD’s method say it’s useful in identifying the homeless people most in need of urgent assistance. Critics contend that HUD’s method grossly underestimates the extent of child homelessness and results in inadequate resources for local governments to combat it. They prefer the Education Department method that includes homeless families who are staying in cheap motels or doubling up temporarily in the homes of friends or relatives.
“Fixing the problem starts with adopting an honest definition,” said Bruce Lesley, president of the nonprofit First Focus Campaign for Children. “Right now, these kids are sort of left out there by themselves.”
Lesley’s group and some allies have endorsed a bill introduced in Congress, with bipartisan sponsorship, that would expand HUD’s definition to correlate more closely with that used by the Education Department. However, the bill doesn’t propose any new spending for the hundreds of thousands of children who would be added to the HUD tally.
Shahera Hyatt, of the California Homeless Youth Project, says most of the homeless schoolchildren in her state aren’t living in shelters.
“It’s often one family living in extreme poverty going to live with another family that was already in extreme poverty,” she said. “Kids have slept in closets and kitchens and bathrooms and other parts of the house that have not been meant for sleeping.”
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