The Impact of Presence

At Maggie’s Place, we are blessed each and every day with so many gifts. Some of them are tangible and address basic physical needs such as laundry detergent, groceries or printer ink; while others are intangible acts of goodwill—prayers from the community, kind words, or volunteers who tend to the garden so the house can…

Not Just a Game

I have found that people are extremely curious about my life at Maggie’s Place; what I do, how I do it and why. Every conversation, even with my family, turns into a discussion panel—me standing up there alone explaining, re-explaining and defending my work. Things common to my everyday life are foreign concepts for my…

Serving Through Brokenness

It doesn’t take a big heart to serve, just a broken one. The longer I have been at Maggie’s Place, the more convinced I am of the truth of this statement.  It is our humanness that allows the community at our homes to flourish. Just last week I was downtown helping a new mom gather…

The Maggie’s Place Experience

Maggie’s Place is an unrepeatable experience. It is a kaleidoscope of every human struggle, and every human joy. We celebrate the beginning of life as we welcome brand new human beings into this world. We dream together about their futures. We pray that they can find the beauty in this broken world, and that they…

Treated Like Royalty

Valentine’s day proves to be a difficult time for many of our moms who have broken relationships. But for the past several years, Morrison Foods and Dignity Health – Chandler Regional Medical Center have made an extra special effort to show these moms that they are treasured and worthy of great love, and what a…

Authentic Gratitude

A few weeks ago I was talking with a mom when we were interrupted by a volunteer who had a question. I love the spontaneity that occurs in the day-to-day life of community – how you learn little gems about our moms when you least expect it. The volunteer, who serves regularly in our homes,…

Teresa

It was a Tuesday morning, per our typical plan, all the staff were out of the house for our regular Tuesday meetings. On this particular Tuesday, our volunteer at the house, Esther, gave us a call about 10am. Esther alerted us that the police called and were asking us to help with a homeless mother…