by alex-focus | Mar 24, 2019 | 40 days with FOCUS, FOCUS House - Minnesota
Saint Gregory of Palamas Sunday Kontakion – Tone 4 Now is the time for action! Judgment is at the doors! So let us rise and fast, offering alms with tears of compunction and crying: “Our sins are more in number than the sands of the sea; but forgive us, O Master of...
by alex-focus | Mar 18, 2019 | 40 days with FOCUS, St. Herman House - FOCUS Cleveland
On the Sunday of Orthodoxy, we celebrate the restoration of the use of holy icons, holy images, in the Orthodox Christian Church. In affirming the use of icons at the Seventh Ecumenical Council in 787, the church, at the same time, was affirming the incarnation of...
by alex-focus | Mar 15, 2019 | St. Herman House - FOCUS Cleveland
“I want to better myself” Twenty-seven years old, Frank has struggled with addiction since his teen years. “I burnt a lot of bridges,” he says, and that’s how he ended up without a place to live. He had been kicked out of a boarding house and was staying at a...
by alex-focus | Mar 14, 2019 | Blog
Almost 46 years old, John had lived with his mother, with friends, homeless shelters, had been in and out of jail, but had never had his own apartment. After living at FOCUS Cleveland’s St. Herman House for a year and a half, John had finally been approved for...
by alex-focus | Mar 12, 2019 | Blog
Here are 10 ideas we think would be great ways to kick-start serving others in your communities! Organize a drive for your local food bank! When you drop off the items, ask about other ways you can get involved throughout the year. Cook a meal at your local homeless...
