Kelly Kunz is the Founder of Street Justice Ministry, a Minnesota-based mobile outreach serving people affected by addiction, homelessness, and human trafficking across the Twin Cities. Through its outreach bus, the ministry provides practical supplies, resources, encouragement, prayer, and spiritual support directly to people on the streets. Drawing from her experience with trauma, addiction, exploitation, and homelessness, Kelly helps others find hope, healing, and restoration through faith in Jesus. In this episode… It is easy to talk about loving people in need until loving them means getting close to the mess, the trauma, and the choices we may not understand. What does it look like to see people living on the streets not as a problem to solve, but as neighbors Jesus calls us to love? Kelly Kunz believes it starts by looking at each person through the lens of Jesus and remembering that their current circumstances are not the whole story. Drawing from her own experiences with addiction, trauma, and outreach, she focuses on serving a person's heart rather than enabling their addiction, using food, conversation, practical care, and genuine relationship as points of connection. That approach replaces judgment with compassion and creates space for people to feel seen, loved, and open to transformation. In this episode of the Align & Abide podcast, Dr. Kim Tran is joined once again by Kelly Kunz, Founder of Street Justice Ministry, to discuss loving the "homies" as Jesus would. They explore seeing people beyond addiction, building trust through practical care, and serving without judgment. Kelly also shares how prayer, fasting, and forgiveness can strengthen both personal healing and ministry.
