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Dave Mowers \u201907 (Pastoral Studies) knows a thing or two about different denominations because he\u2019s personally journeyed through several of them. He was born into a United Methodist family, attended a Pentecostal church in high school, graduated from North Central, an Assemblies of God University, attended an Episcopal Church his senior year of college, and went to a seminary with Baptist roots. Mowers eventually found his call and his \u201chome\u201d as Rector at Trinity Episcopal Church in Baraboo, Wisconsin.<\/p>\n

It was perhaps this theologically eclectic journey that taught Mowers to learn to be a bridge-builder; in the past three years, he has played an instrumental role in building bridges in the community of Baraboo that brought a new homeless shelter into existence.<\/p>\n

Understanding God\u2019s love for the poor<\/h3>\n

As a deep-thinking college student in the early years of this century, Mowers felt amazingly at home and concurrently out of place as he wrestled with theology. \u201cThe seeds for everything I\u2019m doing now were planted at North Central,\u201d Mowers said. \u201cAnd a lot of that had to do with the faculty I had the opportunity to interact with there.\u201d Some of his most profound moments came when he contemplated the \u201cworldly implications of what it means to follow Jesus and what it means to be a disciple \u2026 and what that means particularly for the poor.\u201d<\/p>\n

In studying the minor prophets while at NCU, Mowers said, \u201cI realized that the God of Israel and the God we meet in Jesus Christ is so concerned for the material conditions of the poor\u2014not simply their spiritual condition or their relationship to God.\u201d Mowers said he began to see how deeply God cares for the poor. And this has compelled him to do the same.<\/p>\n

Closed doors open eyes to a need<\/h3>\n

\"DaveMowers moved to Baraboo with his wife, Elizabeth, and their children in 2016. Two years into his service at Trinity, a shelter run by an independent church was suddenly shuttered. Mowers found out about the closure by accident when he drove by the church one day and saw a \u201cfor sale\u201d sign in front of it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought, \u2018What\u2019s going on here?\u2019\u201d Mowers recounted. He reached out to a group of local pastors he met with periodically, and while none of them knew what had happened, but learned the couple that ran the church needed to relocate for health reasons. They all agreed that winter was coming, and they should see if there were some way they could help because the 30 or so people who had regularly used the facility would be in need.<\/p>\n

While the pastors agreed they wanted to do something, there was no individual congregation that could answer with a solution standing on its own. Mowers said, \u201cIt became clear we needed to incorporate and have a separate, independent not-for-profit corporation; it needed to be a community organization.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mowers found himself at an intersection where his heart-preparation for the needs of the poor met his skills as a connector and administrator. When they incorporated the Baraboo Area Homeless Shelter<\/a> organization in November 2018, Mowers was named president.<\/p>\n

But having a formal organization and a leader didn\u2019t mean they had a place for anyone to stay. The organization found it difficult to find a place to have the shelter, experiencing a series of closed doors and even a contentious battle with residents of an adjacent village who did not want to welcome a homeless shelter into their community.<\/p>\n

Deep discouragement<\/h3>\n

They received a firm \u201cNo\u201d from the village council 10 days before Easter in 2019. \u201cWe had been at it for six months,\u201d Mowers recalled, \u201cand we had no buildings and seemingly nowhere else to go. It was really discouraging.\u201d For Mowers, the feeling of desolation he typically felt as Good Friday approached was almost palpable.<\/p>\n

But they kept working and trying to figure it out. Finally, in September, a local business owner stepped up to help with the dilemma of a community without a homeless shelter. They were able to rent a former memory care center the businessman owned. They signed the lease in September, sailed through the approval process for permits and zoning with the City of Baraboo, and things started to click.<\/p>\n

Funds to support the project were coming in, and people throughout the community offered all kinds of help. Local plumbing companies pooled their efforts<\/a> and donated plumbing work needed for the project.<\/p>\n

Persevering in the pandemic<\/h3>\n

The work slowed down dramatically in early 2020 with the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic but eventually continued\u2014even throughout the polarized political cycle of 2020. Mowers was amazed that in a town that is \u201cpurple,\u201d nearly equally divided between the two major parties, people of all political persuasions and all faiths (or no faith) became part of making the Pathway Shelter a reality.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe opened in January [2021],\u201d Mowers said, \u201cand have had about 30 clients come through so far.\u201d He said they hired a full-time social worker as the director and are doing more than just providing meals, working with clients to address the problems that led to their homelessness, and guide them toward permanent employment and housing.<\/p>\n

In January 2020, the Governor of Wisconsin recognized Mowers<\/a> and his work to bring the shelter into existence. \u201cIt was a once-in-a-lifetime kind of experience,\u201d Mower said. \u201cI got to meet the Governor and the Lieutenant Governor.\u201d He admitted the recognition felt a little odd because it was a team effort that required the support of the whole community, but he also realized it was a situation of \u201cthe right gifts, right time, right passions, right place.\u201d His journey had prepared him \u201cfor such a time as this.\u201d<\/p>\n

God turned up<\/h3>\n

In the darkest moments of the nearly three-year process to open the shelter, Mowers said they had to fight hard even when they knew they would lose. \u201cThere is a Sara Groves song that I played a lot during that time called \u2018The Long Defeat<\/a>,\u2019\u201d \u00a0Mowers said.<\/p>\n

I can’t just fight when I think I’ll win<\/em>
\nThat’s the end of all belief<\/em>
\nAnd nothing has provoked it more<\/em>
\nThan a possible defeat<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cI came to recognize and appreciate how the suffering of Jesus and the self-offering of Jesus on the cross \u2026 was thousands of times magnified over what we went through,\u201d Mowers reflected. \u201cI think when we\u2019re in a situation [that seems hopeless], it\u2019s like we never have to walk that path alone anymore because Jesus walked it alone for us. Even though it was stressful and hard, God sustained me; He sustained us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mowers pressed on. \u201cI just kept coming back to the thought that Jesus shows up for His poor, and in the face of this homeless person, you see the face of God. And I couldn\u2019t walk away from that.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s deeply lonely in some ways, and it\u2019s really hard work. But my experience has been that God has just been so faithful in it. At every turn, when we were stymied, God turned up.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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