Please keep Tom and Mertise in your prayers. Each has life threatening health problems. Their vision was that LAMP would shine the light of Jesus and dispell darkness first with the area's large Hispanic popluation and secondarily with the community as a whole. Ruben and Mary operate Gainesville's only full time year round family shelter. The shelter is open to anyone who is without a home regardless of ethnic background.
Space is very limited.
There have been times when teens living at the shelter and volunteer workers have bunked on the living room floor or on the enclosed porch to make room for families and children. Ruben and Mary make their home at LAMP house and are on 24 hour call for emergencies. They are called for all of these needs and many more. And they respond. Somehow a 3 bedroom house expands to take in one more family.