ladypeartree Posted February 22 Group: Royal Member Followers: 37 Topic Count: 540 Topics Per Day: 0.08 Content Count: 32,930 Content Per Day: 5.04 Reputation: 23,680 Days Won: 232 Joined: 06/21/2006 Status: Offline Birthday: 02/23/1953 Share Posted February 22 There was a lovely family here who agreed to have a refugee stay with them ... till the refugee ran off with the husband leaving the wife and 3 kids . Apparently she has now left him too as she found someone with more money 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Debp Posted February 22 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 52 Topic Count: 1,025 Topics Per Day: 0.15 Content Count: 12,351 Content Per Day: 1.80 Reputation: 16,384 Days Won: 92 Joined: 07/19/2005 Status: Offline Author Share Posted February 22 2 minutes ago, ladypeartree said: There was a lovely family here who agreed to have a refugee stay with them ... till the refugee ran off with the husband leaving the wife and 3 kids . Apparently she has now left him too as she found someone with more money Wow, that's terrible! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RdJ Posted February 22 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 67 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 1,148 Content Per Day: 0.37 Reputation: 649 Days Won: 0 Joined: 10/11/2015 Status: Offline Birthday: 05/25/1970 Share Posted February 22 (edited) 1 hour ago, Debp said: I saw a video where NYC would pay residents $125 a night to house illegal immigrants. The problem is...what if they come with bedbugs (very prevalent) or lice...or if they are mentally ill or a gang member? This day and age you have to be careful. Yes they don't ask you to take just any regular homeless person in either. With covid the homeless in my city could live on a luxurous boat. Don't spread viruses. Here you have your own place on a boat. They were very happy with that. I went to a church decades ago. It was a couple that started it. More a housegroup but with a building. Very small. They were saved for 3 years or so and started to pastor and super naive they wanted to help the homeless and picked em up in the mall in the big city, but they walked all the way back, because they had to have drugs. Edited February 22 by Renskedejonge 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neighbor Posted February 22 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 18 Topic Count: 958 Topics Per Day: 0.35 Content Count: 13,659 Content Per Day: 5.04 Reputation: 9,086 Days Won: 6 Joined: 12/04/2016 Status: Offline Birthday: 03/03/1885 Share Posted February 22 2 hours ago, Debp said: The problem is...what if they come with bedbugs (very prevalent) or lice...or if they are mentally ill or a gang member? This day and age you have to be careful. I bet they are thinking about the same issues! What if my host has bedbugs, is a human trafficker, or a violent gang member, or a drug dealer, or all of the above? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neighbor Posted February 22 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 18 Topic Count: 958 Topics Per Day: 0.35 Content Count: 13,659 Content Per Day: 5.04 Reputation: 9,086 Days Won: 6 Joined: 12/04/2016 Status: Offline Birthday: 03/03/1885 Share Posted February 22 Many years ago Los Angeles, along the Harbor Freeway was populated with extremely poor illegals on one side and extremely poor Blacks on the other side. Odd how the freeway made that natural divide. Anyway, I spent a little time on the side that Dr. E.V. Hill was attempting to turn Christian block by block. As it turned out it was a very short lived adventure, but one that took me into a world I had only known from tv images of rioting, looting, and burning. Turned out real people with hard rows to hoe live there and suffer under the violence too! While on the other side of the "road", the HRBR Frwy, the residences were mostly flats three story old flats and each flat housed up to 17 "Latinos" per flat. They lived "Hot Sheets" style sleeping in shifts and seeking day labor opportunities. We got involved there or really my wife more than myself helping supply a friend who would go flat to flat to flat with food, clothing, Bibles, and the gospel. Both sides of that Freeway were quite the scary places, yet other than a rock thrown through a windshield from an overpass, wayback in the 1968 era riots just one time no one got so much as a scratch for their efforts to share of our Lord and of food and clothing. Though I did also take one rock literally through the sunroof thrown from the street at Compton in 1985-ish. Amazing shot by a little kid. I saw it being thrown and just couldn't get the sunroof closed in time. It was a perfect three pointer shot while I was still moving. Kid seemed pleased with himself, I never did catch him. Here it is, gad's soon to be nearly half a century later, and the problems for the poor, the sick, the tired, the homeless, are only worse; and it is not just localized in some big metropolitan city, it is everywhere! Even small cities are dumping homeless humans out in the rural woodlands like some people do pets they are abandoning. From what I read and see it is everywhere, everywhere on earth! Our Lord said the poor will always be with you. I didn't think he meant it might be like it has become today. Maranatha p.s. last time I "visited" towns like Torrance Lomita and on up the freeway all have razor wire wrapped around the street and freeway signs to keep people from stealing them for aluminum scrap. An amazingly depressing look for America- razor wire! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RdJ Posted February 22 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 67 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 1,148 Content Per Day: 0.37 Reputation: 649 Days Won: 0 Joined: 10/11/2015 Status: Offline Birthday: 05/25/1970 Share Posted February 22 56 minutes ago, Neighbor said: I bet they are thinking about the same issues! What if my host has bedbugs, is a human trafficker, or a violent gang member, or a drug dealer, or all of the above? Serious. When these Ukrainian women were coming here their men couldn't get out of the country and were forced to stay and they had to watch out with creeps who wanted a nice young good looking Ukrainian girl. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neighbor Posted February 22 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 18 Topic Count: 958 Topics Per Day: 0.35 Content Count: 13,659 Content Per Day: 5.04 Reputation: 9,086 Days Won: 6 Joined: 12/04/2016 Status: Offline Birthday: 03/03/1885 Share Posted February 22 3 hours ago, ladypeartree said: There was a lovely family here who agreed to have a refugee stay with them ... till the refugee ran off with the husband leaving the wife and 3 kids . Apparently she has now left him too as she found someone with more money That is the old, old, story of men is it not? And the reason God allowed for divorce - the hardness of men's hearts. Reference; the summary by our Lord given us at Matthew 19. p.s. I would bet it was that man's plan from the beginning; that he was looking in all the wrong places for satisfactions that are not there to be had except through those which God will bless. He had them and did not see, got turned over to his own strong delusions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RdJ Posted March 1 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 67 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 1,148 Content Per Day: 0.37 Reputation: 649 Days Won: 0 Joined: 10/11/2015 Status: Offline Birthday: 05/25/1970 Share Posted March 1 I saw a similar discussion on a Dutch News site, since they're going to put illegal immigrants in hotels. Some comments are just so funny. And when the places in the hotels are quickly filled; should they then be taken care of at citizens' homes? Unfortunately, we don't have room with two adult children at home..... You can also sleep in your beds in shifts, where there is a will there is a way, and those people also have a driver's license, so you can easily share your car. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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