Lebanon Valley College Welcomes Best-Selling Author on Homelessness Mike Yankoski

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Mike Yankoski will speak on Feb. 16 in Miller Chapel

ANNVILLE, PA (01/26/2012)(readMedia)-- Lebanon Valley College and its student organization, Hunger Awareness Leaders of Tomorrow (HALT), are pleased to welcome best-selling Christian author Mike Yankoski to Miller Chapel on Thursday, Feb. 16 at 7 p.m. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. Admission for the event is free; however canned food items will be collected upon entry in support of a local food bank.

For five months and in six different American cities, Mike Yankoski intentionally ate from trashcans and rescue missions, slept under bridges, and panhandled in order to survive. Yankoski chose to be homeless not only to better understand the plight of the American homeless, but more specifically to observe how the church and Christians were interacting with this despised corner of American society. Yankoski's book, "Under the Overpass: A Journey of Faith on the Streets of America," captures his journey on the streets and relates the people and experiences that forever changed his life during that five month journey.

Today, Yankoski has a passion to push Christians to live an active and out loud lifestyle of faith, directed by God's will and biblical teaching, and engaged with the surrounding world. He uses his story of Christ's love and calling in his life to captivate and motivate Christians into deeper faith and bolder action.

Yankoski also authored "My 30 Days Under the Overpass: Not Your Ordinary Devotional." He and his wife are executive editors of "Zealous Love: A Practical Guide to Social Justice."

Christian musical artist Cristabelle Braden will open the event at 6 p.m. playing original songs. Yankoski will begin his presentation at 7 p.m.

The event has been sponsored in part by LVC's Office of Spiritual Life, Religion and Philosophy Department, Student Programming Board, and Office of Multicultural Affairs. Yankoski's presentation is part of LVC's Colloquium Series on MONEY, a year-long integrated series of guest speakers, roundtable discussions, films, and courses that consider society's idea of money. Programs within the colloquium consider current issues such as unemployment, poverty, and the gender wage gap, as well as discussions on tax policy, the job market and entrepreneurship, and the very ideas of money, the free market, and the morality and theology of capitalism.