Dustin Bowman

For many of us, the idea of "home" is a memory we can trace back to childhood. But for "Josh" and "Mary", home was never a four-walled structure of safety. It was an unreachable idea they had spent their entire lives running after. Josh first came through the doors of Serve City when he was 24, but his housing crisis started the moment he turned 18. Caught in and out of the juvenile justice system as a teenager, he had never known true stability. With severe mental health struggles that led...

True community transformation often begins with a single moment of awareness, an unexpected encounter that breaks your heart and changes the course of your life forever. For the founder of The Highly Favored Foundation, Alberta Ablordeppey, that defining moment happened in the parking lot of a local Kroger. A Journey from Ghana to a Life-Changing Encounter Long before founding The Highly Favored Foundation, Alberta grew up in Ghana, West Africa, raised by a resilient widowed mother....

When a person has spent years trapped in the exhausting cycle of housing insecurity, the road ahead can look impossibly steep. For "Steve," a man in his early 40s with a long, painful history of experiencing homelessness, stability had felt out of reach for a very long time. Steve first came through the doors of Serve City back in 2019. Over the years, the systemic and personal weight of chronic housing instability repeatedly pulled him back into crisis, eventually leading him to our...