I used to live in Dayton, OH where I served as a youth pastor for five years.  In the winter, Dayton is a very cold place to be, and that’s why this story caught my attention.  Ryan Riddell is the pastor of Shelter Community Church of the Nazarene in Dayton, and he’s concerned about the plight of the homeless…so much so that he’s sleeping in his van this month.

While he doesn’t think a few weeks on the streets will actually help him fully empathize with the hundreds of thousands of homeless people in the U.S., he does hope to get a better understanding of how people get to be homeless and what they do to survive.

During the month in his van, he’s using his smartphone to shoot video and photos that he regularly uploads to his blog site.  Check it out if you have a few minutes.

http://30dayshomeless.wordpress.com/