How We Got Started

living for the poor and broken

Video length: 27:16

Jim grew up on a farm in Illinois; Judy was the child of missionaries in Argentina. We met at Wheaton College and were both challenged away from middle-class comfort and safety. We got together as a couple while reaching out to the chronically mentally ill and others in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood. Here we discuss our introduction as young adults past the usual hurdles of fear and discomfort, into the joy of caring for folks at the so-called bottom.


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