2021 Year End Thank You
Watch our 2021 year end thank you video.
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Watch our 2021 year end thank you video.
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Red loves the Kansas City Chiefs, and will tell anyone willing to listen. He’ll also tell Vikings fans who don’t want to listen, which is part of what Red enjoys about coming to Peace House Community. After years of watching the Chiefs struggle, Red is delighted with their recent success. “Always cheered for the Chiefs
I sometimes describe Peace House Community as a magical place to work. Usually when I say that, I mean that working here provides me with a wonderful feeling of contentment that can’t easily be explained. Occasionally, however, I mean that PHC produces something that completely baffles me, like a magician pulling a rabbit from a
The Peace House Community social media team is a group of talented and dedicated volunteers. We are so fortunate to have them and are grateful for all of their hard work. They keep the PHC website (“peacehousecommunity.org”) and social media sites – Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn – updated and lively, which engages our supporters
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St. Joseph’s Parish (located in Crosby, Minnesota) has cared for Peace House Community’s members since 1997 by bringing home made sleeping bags and other items to our building. The ministry started after parishioners met PHC founder Sister Rose Tillemans and felt called to join her work. Read about the group’s work in this article from the parish
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You don’t question DeWayne. He doesn’t like his street name, so I won’t use it here. Suffice it to say, he has respect on both sides of the fence outside Peace House, where he’s a stalwart. Yes, he can go off on Minnesota’s quiet racism and talk about leaving. But he is not wrong. He
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Never having been in the armed forces, I don’t have personal experience with the idea of leaving no one behind on the battlefield, even if rescuing them requires great personal risk. I understand it in concept, but I’ve never had to live it out. Only recently did I realize that I get to see others
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Mike was introduced to PHC during his years in middle school. They lived in the neighborhood and while walking, his mother Shirley said, “Let’s stop in Peace House.” This began Mike’s presence with us. Early on he always felt a sense of belonging and knew PHC to be a place where he could connect with
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PHC: Tell us a little about your professional life. DLG: I am a lawyer by trade – a solo private criminal defense practitioner, mostly representing indigent defendants as their appointed counsel in federal court. Directly after law school I spent some time investigating and documenting human rights abuses in the Mexican criminal justice system. I then clerked for
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I spent last week visiting my parents in Jasper, a small town in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. It was the first time since my 11 year old twins were born that I have been away from them for more than two days consecutively. It was also the first time in over 20 years that I