Churches, synagogues provide shelter from the cold

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When temperatures drop, several Baltimore area counties look to the religious community to help house the influx of homeless people seeking shelter.

“Many of them are living in their cars, some are families, and when it gets cold, they come here,” says the Rev. Mary Dennis of Howard County?s Glen Mar United Methodist Church in Ellicott City, which hosts a cold-weather shelter.

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