Multiple times a week — and always on Sundays — Kim Massey wakes up, typically dons a shirt that says “Jesus lived in a tent” and thinks of what to pack in her car that could help someone trying to survive life outside. She’ll often make sack lunches before heading to her basement and rifling through dozens of donations, from wipes to toilet paper to gloves to propane.
Before leaving her house, she reviews her texts for anything people have explicitly requested from her last outing. Then she and her husband drive their SUV around Bloomington-Normal, scouring the woods, abandoned buildings and any other place they know or suspect someone might be sleeping.
“If you ever see me, just like, randomly pull over somewhere, it’s because I didn’t know that person was there,” she said on a recent weekday in December while dropping off sandwiches and propane. She puts these locations on a list for next time…