Meet Some Encouragers

" Let us consider how we may spur one another on to love and good deeds" (Hebrews 10:24)

I would like to introduce you to my friend Frank Zuniga.  I have known him and his parents and sister for many years in the Catholic charismatic renewal in Northern California. 

The Zuniga family and I have another common bond.  I have a stepson who was lost on the streets of Ohio for many years, diagnosed with schizophrenia.  Frankie and his sister, Theresa, had a brother, Michael, who lived on the streets with a mental illness.  People would often see him shuffling along with his belongings in a shopping cart.  He was a friendly soul, and people would often talk to him. In 1996 at age 44, Michael was found, dead, next to a dumpster behind a convenience store. God has a wonderful way of healing broken hearts, such as the hearts of the Zuniga family with the loss of someone they loved and didn't know how to help.  Frank has been working out his own feelings through song.  His recently released CD, "Soul Food for Simple Folks," is poignant folk music rising from the soul of a brother releasing his pain to the Lord.  

One song, "My Brother and His Shopping Cart" stands out profoundly.  In fact, the cover of the CD shows a shopping cart parked at the very garbage dumpster where Michael died.

This is a CD that would be understood especially by people who know or who are touched by the homeless. Frank Zuniga can be reached via email at wontgoquietly@aol.com