2024 March #2By a Joy Junction Staff Member (JBF) We have a holiday coming up. This one represents new life, so it appropriately fits what we try to encourage our guests to reach for every day of the year. Easter is widely known in our culture as the holiday that reminds us that Jesus Christ lived a perfect life on … Read More
#MyGivingStory. Share Your Story of What Inspires You to Give to Joy Junction
Joy Junction is excited to announce that we’re taking part in the #MyGivingStory contest! This is a great opportunity, and we’re hoping you will help us win! #MyGivingStory is a nationwide social media storytelling contest that aims to foster a public discussion about the reason you give. Specifically, the program invites you to share your story about what inspires you … Read More
2014 is Almost Over
From: Jeremy Reynalds, Ph.D. Founder and CEO Joy Junction Inc. Dear Joy Junction Friend, I hope your holiday season has been blessed. As you may have seen, Joy Junction just celebrated our 29th Christmas. What an exciting and unbelievable ride it’s been since 1986. You can find our more about Joy Junction ‘s beginning and my own story in … Read More
Year End Giving Will Help Us End Strong.
From: Jeremy Reynalds, Ph.D. Founder and CEO Joy Junction Inc. Dear Joy Junction Friend, Thank you for your prayerful and financial support of Joy Junction during 2014. We appreciate it so much, and couldn’t continue to feel and shelter the hungry and homeless without your help. Would you please consider a special gift year end gift for 2014? It will … Read More
To ID or not to ID? That is the Question. What Would Jesus Do?
By Jeremy Reynalds, Ph.D. Founder and CEO Joy Junction Inc. And what about background checks? Who helps the homeless without any identification? It’s a conversation that needs to occur, because lack of identification is a reoccurring challenge faced by homeless people. Joy Junction asks for identification, but works with those who don’t have it to help them obtain the identification … Read More
TEDxABQ Asks Joy Junction to Change Shirts that Say “Life is Tough … God is Good”
By Jeremy Reynalds, Ph.D. Founder and CEO Joy Junction Inc. While the group’s creed is ideas worth spreading, this is obviously one idea that wasn’t welcome. The idea? “God is good,” written on a shirt. TEDxABQ Founder Tim Nisly (who I have known and respected for years) brings people together from all over New Mexico to give what are dubbed … Read More
“Joy Junction Saved My life. I Now Realize that I Do Matter.”
By Jeremy Reynalds, Ph.D. Founder and CEO Joy Junction Inc. Growing up, Megan’s friends wanted to be just like her. Who wouldn’t? Megan said her mom and dad made six figures a year. “I took amazing vacations and never had to want for anything. Little did they know how unhappy I was.” Why? Megan explained, saying her mother told … Read More
Walking 3,000 Miles in Their Shoes
By Jeremy Reynalds, Ph.D. Founder and CEO Joy Junction Inc. It’s not something that most people think about-and for those who even think, far fewer actually do it. But Michael Pearson, 42, and his wife Julie, 34, went way beyond just thinking about it. They’re now well into “doing” it-walking 3,000 miles across the United States to raise money for … Read More
A World of Hate! Love or Anger: You Choose
By Jeremy Reynalds, Ph.D. Founder and CEO Joy Junction Inc. Having cable news on in the background today while I worked was probably a mistake. While I tuned in to hear “news,” what I ended up getting for the most part was often angry, hate-filled punditry, about how the “other side” was wrong. I must confess that I wondered how … Read More
