Violet Little was troubled, there...
Violet Little was troubled, there in the city of Philadelphia, when she saw a homeless
man, dressed in ragged clothes and not smelling the best, stop in at a fast food place and
be turned away. She knew that many homeless people were sleeping in cars, and that
their only opportunity to clean up and change clothes was to sneak into a public
restroom.
Why wasn't there a place, she wondered, where they'd be welcome and helped, where
they could really rest for a while?
Finally she found a church, the Lutheran Church of the Holy Communion, right in the
