For more than 20 years, an Orange County nonprofit has helped the homeless using a 15-passenger van, a trailer full of cots and a network of welcoming churches.
Family Promise of Greater Orlando’s efforts reduce strain on the region’s limited number of homeless shelters — and represent the smaller-scale, creative options Central Florida needs to help a growing number of people without homes, homeless advocates say.
The nonprofit’s work, they add, also helps the church congregants see that in many ways the homeless are “just like us.”…