D.C. Church Homeless Ministry Leaders Bewail Federal Takeover - The Living Church

D.C. Church Homeless Ministry Leaders Bewail Federal Takeover - The Living Church

Since the mid-1980s, Tina Mallet has been involved in the ministry of St. Paul’s Parish K Street to the homeless population of Washington, D.C. She leads the Grate Patrol, which the Anglo-Catholic parish began in 1981. It is named after the grates over the city’s subway system, where people lie during the winter because of the hot steam they release. On the morning of August 14, at around 6 a.m., Mallet went to an area south of the U.S. Institut…