Lisa Wilson

“Remember that the poor are people with names,” writes Bryant Myers, author of Walking with the Poor. “[They are] people with whom and among whom God has been working before we even knew they were there.”
― Mike Yankoski, Under the Overpass: A Journey of Faith on the Streets of America

“You'll never scare anyone into heaven... Telling someone who is suffering deeply that he's going to suffer more is probably a waste of breath. Its like warning someone who is already starving that they're about to get really hungry. But tell him of the restaurant that serves heaping meals to all who come no matter where they're from or what they look like & he's more likely to listen.”
― Mike Yankoski, Under the Overpass: A Journey of Faith on the Streets of America

“What says more about who you are in Christ? How loudly you say AMEN in the service or how well you treat strangers in the foyer?”
― Mike Yankoski, Under the Overpass: A Journey of Faith on the Streets of America

“A hungry man can be a fast learner. When you come to a table with nothing but need, you are grateful for things you might have pushed aside before. And when you kneel, hungry & broken at His table, you receive a grace from Him you might, at some other time, have completely missed.”
― Mike Yankoski, Under the Overpass: A Journey of Faith on the Streets of America