“Once I look them in the eye, it is Jesus in the flesh,” Karen McNeill from Springtime of Hope explained. “There is Gary,”
She spoke about faces of the homeless that live on Akron’s streets. “This is why we visit them and eat with them. Christ didn’t come to save the righteous. He came to save all of us.”
Karen and the rest of the volunteers with Springtime of Hope do know Akron’s homeless by name.
They are a local organization that began in 2001. The groups of workers take a mobile unit downtown Akron, every Friday, no matter what the weather and distribute food and clothing.
They also take their hope and love to the Appalachian people. Once a year, the organization goes to the mountains in Kentucky for a week. They spend time building trailers and houses. “It is more than just building houses,” Karen stated. “We are building people.”
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