I wonder if the Good News Ministry there evolved from the one in Pensacola, Florida founded by Charlie Osborne. The one I belong to here in Tallahassee came out of there and was started by David Stewart. We were originally part of Good News Ministry, but we are now an outgrowth called Good News Outreach. The big difference is that Good News Ministry here is geared to evangelism--but we are into the active apostolate (Soup Kitchen, elder care, food distribution, Mercy Houses--3 half way houses for ex-inmates, a boys group foster home, a girls group foster home, the only pro-life clinic in Florida, Mission Oaks Apartments, which provides low cost apartment living for up to 20 men and Maryland Oaks Crossing (in the making) , which will offer affordable, rent subsidized manufactured housing primarily for single parent families, veterans and handicapped.
Neal, we do hope you the best. By all means, take up the suggestion of helping out while you stay there. Thinking of the welfare of others gives you less time to mope and concentrate on your problems. We love you.