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Phil Altmeyer, Executive Director: Jul 1, 2015 11:50:15 AM
The interviews for this month’s cover story yielded some great insight on the subject of freedom. Particularly intriguing to me was how drastically residents’ definitions changed as they pursued recovery. Again and again, “before” definitions echoed...
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Phil Altmeyer, Executive Director: Apr 1, 2015 11:50:28 AM
There’s a good kind of tired. You know what I mean? That kind of tired where you’ve put in a full day of hard, physical work. You got dirty. You...
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Phil Altmeyer, Executive Director: Feb 1, 2015 10:50:19 AM
Myth: To be a person who disciples others, you have to have it all together. Truth: No one has it all together. Myth: Only a select group of...
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Phil Altmeyer, Executive Director: Nov 1, 2014 11:50:53 AM
The word “bread” is often used as a synonym for sustenance. “Bread and water” describe the bare minimum given to prisoners in dungeons of old. The...
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Phil Altmeyer, Executive Director: Oct 1, 2014 11:55:45 AM
Think back for a moment to your grade school playground. Do you remember standing awkwardly as teams were chosen, hoping you wouldn’t be the last one...
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Phil Altmeyer, Executive Director: Sep 1, 2014 11:50:27 AM
Homelessness does not happen overnight, and it will not be solved overnight. Taking a homeless person and putting him into an apartment will not...
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Phil Altmeyer, Executive Director: Jan 1, 2014 10:58:30 AM
I’m amazed at what can change in a person’s life in a little over a year’s time when he or she aggressively pursues recovery. Consider the cover...
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Phil Altmeyer, Executive Director: Oct 1, 2013 11:37:32 AM
“Continue to remember those in prison as if you were together with them in prison, and those who are mistreated as if you yourselves were suffering,”...
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Phil Altmeyer, Executive Director: Feb 1, 2013 4:35:00 PM
“There are no safe paths in this part of the world” – the wizard Gandalf in master storyteller J.R.R. Tolkien’s tale, The Hobbit.
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Phil Altmeyer, Executive Director: Apr 1, 2012 12:01:00 PM
“You have made us for Yourself so that our hearts are restless until they rest in You.” – Saint Augustine Augustine, one of the early church fathers,...
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Phil Altmeyer, Executive Director: Mar 28, 2012 12:01:00 PM
“There, but for the grace of God, go I.” I hear that statement – generally attributed to a 16th century evangelist named John Bradford – all the...
