Running a non-profit organization that helps the homeless is a hard job. It is a difficult balance between supporters and homeless people and making sure I’m spending enough time with both. I’m also unintentionally making people mad both homeless and supporters. If you add in the long hours and the low pay it can be a very difficult job. So why do I do it? First, God told me to!!!!! If you are a Christian that should be enough; however, I’m also seeing real life change. We have seen 20 homeless people accept Jesus as their savior this year…… I also have people come up to me all the time to tell me how PIN has changed their lives. So when I think about it the positives way outweighs the negatives. However there is someone associated with PIN that has a really tough job…. My wife Anne.
Anne is so awesome! She gets to live out the tough times because I share them with her, but doesn’t get to share all of the complements and praise that is heaped on PIN. I would say that being married to a person who runs an organization that helps the homeless is actually one of the hardest job in the world. So when I found out that this year’s conference was in Miami and we had enough frequent flier miles for a free ticket I decided that Anne should come with me. Anne loves to travel, and when I was a 6 figure engineer at GE we were able to take nice vacations. My salary doesn’t allow us nice vacation money, we get budget vacations. So Anne and I came to Miami two days before the actual conference starts to have a mini vacation, and we had some fun. We went for a ride on an air boat in the everglades, went to Key Largo, and ate lunch on south beach. I’m so glad that it worked out that Anne has been able to come, she deserves to relax more than any person I know.
