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Latest Articles on Joy Junction
Read the latest articles written by Jeremy Reynalds about New Mexico's Largest Homeless Shelter, Joy Junction. 
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Joy Junction - 06/20/2007  Lisa Woodward TodayEveryone has a story, including the homeless man you saw on the highway asking for money and the troubled woman you saw last week pushing a cart piled high with all of her belongings. But you’ve been able to dismiss the plight of some of these individuals you’ve seen on the street while going to or coming from work by saying, "Well, they’ve been there so long they must want to be homeless because otherwise they’d get a job." 
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Had you ever thought about waking up one day and finding that all your worldly goods had simply...well...vanished? How would you manage if all your creature comforts which you take for granted were suddenly taken away from you? For example, to totally lose the ability to retreat to your own quietly comfortable bedroom, or to be unable, when you awaken in the middle of the night, to go into your own bathroom? Then how about not having your own kitchen to brew a pot of coffee or pour a cold fresh-brewed glass of iced tea when you wanted?
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. For about two months out of each year, the telephone at Joy Junction, New Mexico’s largest emergency homeless shelter, rings almost off the hook with calls from happy sounding voices offering food, help and monetary gifts. As you may have guessed, I'm talking about the Thanksgiving and Christmas seasons. However, the need to take care of our city's homeless is one that is year round.
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Latest Articles by Jeremy Reynalds
Read the latest articles written by our Executive Director Jeremy Reynalds.
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By Dr. Jeremy Reynalds
Executive Director
Joy Junction - It was a normal day on Southern California's Ocean Beach. The sun was shining; surfboard-toting bronzed bodies made their way to the beach, tourists shopped and even in mid-afternoon a local bar was buzzing with customers. In Southern California for a few days for meetings concerning Joy Junction Homeless Shelter, my friend Roseann and I suddenly noticed a different sight.
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By Dr. Jeremy Reynalds
Executive Director
Joy Junction -  Book Cover of "The Last of the Wagon Pioneers"It’s rare that I read a book through from cover to cover in one sitting. But there was something so intensely compelling and readable about "The Last of the Wagon Pioneers" by John and Patty Probst that I couldn’t put down.
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By Dr. Jeremy Reynalds
Executive Director
Joy Junction - In the almost 21 years that Joy Junction Homeless Shelter has been in existence, we’d never had a Nashville artist perform for our guests–until a few weeks ago.
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By Jeremy Reynalds
Executive Director
Joy Junction - There is really no such thing as a "normal" day when you’re running a homeless shelter. To many, the homeless are nameless and faceless, but to us they are individuals each with a special story. , Recently, I was in the heart of downtown Albuquerque for a Christmas party. Walking back to our car in the bone-chilling cold after the event was over, my assistant and friend Roseann Vona Page saw a homeless man on the side of the street and immediately said to me, "Do you think he needs a place to stay?"
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