It’s so easy!  If you have a Facebook account, just click the Facebook button near the top of the page and you can register quickly.  If you wouldn’t have anything to do with Facebook, to the right there is a link to register and you can plug in whatever name and password you want.

A really basic definition of anawim can be found in our About page.  If you’d like to explore that further, please go to our group The Poor and the Bible.

Anawim is a church of the homeless. If you want to find out our origins, and our goals, check out the About page. If you want to know all the different things we participate in, check out our Ministries page. If you want to know the days and times of our activities, please look at the Times page. AND, if you want to be updated with the recent news and all, please look at our newsletter.

Our most straightforward information about the homeless is in our articles about Dehumanization.

Steve Kimes’ blog is also peppered with information about the homeless. If you still want more, you can go to Steve’s blog, Homelessness: A Jesus Perspective.

All that information is on our Donation page —both giving financially and specific items.

Strong Stories can be found under Blogs: Jeff Strong’s Blog.

We have a lot of information and ideas about the homeless.  First, look at our articles about Congregations and the Poor.  You can join our discussion in the group My Congregation and the Poor.  Also, there is a manual about ministry to the homeless you can get for free in our blog.

Well, there are a lot of options.   If you are local to the Portland area, you could volunteer, donate items or support in other ways. What kinds of volunteering?  We are looking for people to serve food, help with transportation, pick up donations, and, especially, to get to know and love the homeless and mentally ill. If you are distant, you could donate on the page, or you could join our prayer team.  And for anyone, find a group to discuss with us.  Do you have ideas of how Anawim could run better?  Great, please join our Anawim group.  Want to talk about what it means to be homeless?  Join our Sociology of Homelessness group.  There are a lot of options, so please check out our groups.

This is a big question that we are always thinking about.  You can look through the re-written teachings of Jesus in our section Jesus and the Anawim.  If you’d like to read more about that, please get the book Long Live the Riff Raff: Jesus’ Social Revolution by Steve Kimes.  It’s available for Kindle only, but you can read it on your computer. (If you’d rather a PDF of the book, contact us and we’ll get you one for the same price, which can be given via the Donate page)
If you’d like to give your own opinion about what Jesus said about the poor, please check in our group The Poor and the Bible or another group Being Jesus.

I’d like to chat about the homeless or the Bible

The best way to contact us directly is our email, anawimcc@gmail.com

We’re so glad you like them!  Please go to our Art section to find more, or you can glance through our Blog to find more of our art.  If you are still thirsting for more art, Yvan Strong has a larger selection of her art on her website Tinidril.  Steve and Diane Kimes has more of their pictures on their site, Just Another Photography Blog.

We have a group for those who have questions about the website.  You can find it here.  If you are having a hard time registering or logging onto the website, please contact us directly at anawimcc@gmail.com