In the News
Omaha moves from homeless shelters to apartments
By Erin Grace, WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER
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Homeless shelters fill up in the heat
By Emma Murray, WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER
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Donated turkeys deluge shelter
Published Thursday November 24, 2011
By Christopher Burbach, WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER
They came in cars and trucks and minivans. From all around town, they rolled up to the Stephen Center homeless shelter and opened their tailgates, their passenger doors, their trunks, and emerged bearing frozen turkeys...
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Turkeys slow to arrive to shelters
Published Friday November 18, 2011
By Christopher Burbach, WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER
Turkey's not only for Thanksgiving at the Stephen Center in South Omaha. Gobblers given in November become gifts that keep giving for 52 weeks a year, helping feed the nightly population of about 100 at the center's homeless shelter, and the 64 next door in an addiction treatment program...
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Serving at the shelter.
Published Thursday November 25, 2010
By Christopher Burbach, WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER
A long-haired man walked up Thursday to a priest serving green bean casserole at the Stephen Center and asked, “Anybody ever mistake you for the film director?” Omaha Archbishop George J. Lucas laughed, said no and chatted with the man for a couple minutes until another hungry diner approached with a paper plate...
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September 10, 2010, KMTV Morning Blend Interview about the upcoming 5th annual Harvest of Faith Farmers Market which will be held on September 11th from 8:30-11:00 am in the parking lot of St. Leo Church (102nd & Blondo). View the segment here.
July 21, 2010, metroneighborhoodnews.com: The Stephen Center at 27th and Q streets has operated a homeless shelter for 26 years, but its thrift store, at 5128 S. 24th St., is less than a year old. It is the nonprofit organization’s latest attempt at bringing in more funds to fuel its shelter and addiction treatment center. Read full article here.
12.16.2009: Cindy Oelke from the Stephen's Center offers insight on this Spirit Radio program about what can be donated to the center as well as who is taken in at the shelter.
Click here to listen to the podcast (mp3 format: 21 megs).
Profiles in Caring
Equitable Life and Casualty, a Salt Lake City-based insurance company has awarded Stephen Center the “Ambassador of Caring Award”.
“An Ambassador of Caring is a very special person or organization – one where people give of themselves, but they do it in such a way that it is not charity work,” said Rod Ross, Chairman and CEO of Equitable Life and Casualty. “It’s taking the time and effort to teach others how they can help themselves.”
Stephen Center "Ambassadors of Caring" Award Videos:
