Joy Junction Homeless Shelter Sees Increased Need with Decreased Donations

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., Dec. 31, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Joy Junction, New Mexico's largest emergency homeless shelter, has served as many as 50,000 more meals in 2012 than in 2011.

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Joy Junction Founder and CEO Dr. Jeremy Reynalds said, "We have seen an especially large increase on our mobile feeding unit-The Lifeline of Hope. We're seeing more people daily who have to make an agonizing daily decision between eating and having a place to stay, or eating and putting gas in their cars."

That increase in meals served has come despite an approximate quarter million dollar shortfall in 2012 donations to the nonprofit ministry when compared to 2011 revenue.