HASTINGS, Neb. (KSNB) - Current and former residents at Crossroads Mission Avenue and community members shared their personal stories Thursday and Friday with the public through “Conversations on a Bench,” a national program designed to educate the community about homelessness and challenge common misconceptions.

Jared Furr, a former resident of Crossroads Mission Avenue, described his arrival at the facility as a turning point in his life. “Enthusiastically, I had left my car in Lincoln and I came here defeated,” Furr said.

Furr, who struggled with mental illness, addiction and homelessness, found help when he entered Crossroads Mission Avenue. “The staff told me I could stay the night. And in the morning they told me it was a Christian facility and that could help me get off Suboxone,

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