Last night I drove across town to bring supplies to several of our kids including the wife and best friend of Chuck, the guy who died. They had managed to find an apartment to stay in for a couple of
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I have had the opportunity to experience some incredible improvements in the lives of some of our street youth during the six months that I have been working at Sox Place. I have had the pleasure of getting to know Deven (formerly known on the streets as Ziggy), who has progressed from prison cell to maintaining a part-time job at a custom motorcycle shop in Denver. I wrote about some of my experiences with him earlier this year here (http://soxplace.com/new-beginnings) and here (http://soxplace.com/planting-seeds-at-sox-place/), in which
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As I stood on the tile beside the door, getting my mind ready for the blast of cold and snow that I was about to encounter, I looked down at my boots. My ugly boots. My old, dirty, ugly boots. I’d had them since high school – about ten years now. Ten years is a long time to have a pair of shoes when you’re only 26 and female. They were a sort-of faded black – I couldn’t remember if they had always been that color or if they had faded over time – with dirt on the top of one of them that I couldn’t seem to get off. They were size almost-too-big. Clunky was a good description for them; I sounded like a 300 pound drunk man when I walked across the floor. And they were plain. Completely plain, except
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Thanks to some of our generous supporters who donated $30 to give some of our kids new skateboards!
Want a Sox Place Skateboard? Want to donate one? Go to Sox Place Store.
For more information on how you can help the homeless youth of Denver, click here:
http://soxplace.com/join-the-5280-challenge-to-help-the-homeless
“My dad wasn’t there to teach me how to be a man, so I looked to my friends,” he said. “I didn’t have no one to look up to. I had to teach myself everything.” - a 30 year old father, convicted felon.
We, as a society, condemn the fatherless around us, saying they should be men, but who was there to teach them? I do not believe that a boy can grow up to be a man by himself. A man must teach a boy to be a man! Boys learn from their environment, their peers, and adults in their lives such as coaches, teachers, pastors, etc.
Deseret News (Salt Lake City) reports that “one-third of American children in America are growing up without their biological father, according
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