Our House e-newsletter Winter 2015 | Page 6

by Georgia Mjartan, Executive Director Without meaning to, this has become a bit of a music issue! I think that says a lot about the kind of place that Our House is. When you think of a homeless shelter, you probably don’t think of people singing and dancing, clapping their hands and swaying from side to side. But on December 16th at 7 p.m., that’s exactly what was happening inside the Shelter. It has become a holiday tradition at Our House. Our adult residents, alumni, and Learning Center students come together after weeks of practice to perform holiday jingles for the residents of the Shelter. We call it Jingle Jams. There’s a crowd of people gathered together feeling a lot like family, even at a time when