Supplying over 930 thousand pounds of food, 125 thousand nights of shelter, 190 thousand meals and 1 million pounds of clothing and miscellaneous household items in 2025 alone, the Lincoln People’s City Mission is the heart and soul of Lincoln’s homeless population.
“Its primary function over the years has been to provide housing and temporary housing for the homeless, or food and shelter and those things a human needs to survive,” Richard Gervais, director of the Mission, said.
Recently, students of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln volunteered for the Mission through an Urban Plunge, a volunteer event for freshmen during Big Red Welcome Week. Among them was Lyndsey Johnson, a freshman architecture major…