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The Open Shelter is grateful for loyal, caring partners like Stone Village Church! For many years, Rev. John Wooden and the community at Stone Village have been so loving and helpful with sack lunches and donations of much-needed items like sleeping bags for those we serve. They also have helped us with our Holiday Events! […]

The Open Shelter & YOU assisted 2,658 homeless and marginally-housed persons in 2024; 871 of whom were “living on the streets”.  57,122 sack lunches and 119,015 ‘to-go’ meals were provided.  33 men and women participated in our “Payeeship” program, which helps homeless and recently homeless persons who need third-party money management.  1,379 instances of outdoor item assistance were

The Open Shelter would like to thank the Church of The Messiah, United Methodist of Westerville, Ohio for their decades of support, commitment, devotion, compassion, loyalty, and love to our mission and those we serve. Church of The Messiah members have helped us in many ways, from providing gifts for our Christmas program through their

The Open Shelter and those we serve were blessed! Thanks to St. Andrew & St. Agatha Church, we were able to provide a nourishing and delicious Holiday Meal for over 250 homeless and marginally housed men, women & children and also some special guests we invited! We were also able to make Christmas bright and

The Holidays can be a joyous time for many but can also be stressful and even depressing for some, especially those we serve. We talked to a few of our guests and one of our longtime volunteers to understand what the Holidays mean to them. “Family and celebrations. Some are happy, some are sad. Some

“I am from Venezuela. We left there because the economic crisis is bad. There is no work or food. I came through the jungles of Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Mexico. In Mexico, I got on a train. I jumped the mesh fence into Texas to surrender to immigration.” “I was happy because I had