This will be Cherry Street's 62nd. year of service to the many communities of Northwest Ohio and Southeast Michigan. I'm so very grateful to God for everyone who comprises the ministries of Cherry Street; from our guests to our donors it is truly a blessing to serve.
With the new year it will be easy to think there will be new challenges - in fact there won't be new challenges as much as there will be old challenges on new faces. The old challenges are as ageless as time - you know them as well as I do.
The new faces? That's another issue all together.
The faces are younger in that the median age of homeless men and women in the U.S. has dropped from the mid 50's to the mid 30's in the last ten years, are more generational in that homeless men now may be sharing the same shelter with their adult children, and the younger faces involve more children - much more children.
The solutions will require an ever increasing sophistication in services to those who come to us in need AND an equal eye toward prevention - understanding that an ounce of prevention is still worth a pound of cure.
Yes - 2009 will be an exciting year.
Join me,
Dan
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