![Erik Hagestuen, left, offered a steadying hand while Mark Schmid, Pastor at St. Philip the Deacon Lutheran Church, kneeled to set up his tent before sleeping outside the IOCP building Wednesday night. ] JEFF WHEELER • jeff.wheeler@startribune.com With temperatures dipping well into the teens overnight, about two dozen hearty souls slept out in tents, cardboard boxes, or their cars in the parking lot of Interfaith Outreach & Community Partners and their ReSale 101 store in Plym](https://arc.stimg.co/startribunemedia/VMUAF3SROEQFUOD3XZK4M5GSIM.jpg?&w=1080)
About two dozen hardy and large-hearted souls slept outside in cardboard boxes, tents and cars last week to raise money for and awareness of the needs of more than 1,800 struggling families in the west metro, some of whom are homeless.
The annual Sleep Out event was sponsored by the Plymouth-based Interfaith Outreach & Community Partners, which provides food, housing, transportation, child care and employment help for those in need. Temperatures dipped into the teens at night.
For more information about the organization and its work, go to www.iocp.org.
Pamela Miller
![Some of the roughly 24 Sleep Out participants were going to sleep in cardboard boxes, some in tents, and the rest in their cars in the parking lot of ReSale 101 Wednesday night. ] JEFF WHEELER • jeff.wheeler@startribune.com With temperatures dipping well into the teens overnight, about two dozen hearty souls slept out in tents, cardboard boxes, or their cars in the parking lot of Interfaith Outreach & Community Partners and their ReSale 101 store in Plymouth Wednesday night, D](https://arc.stimg.co/startribunemedia/ZN4ABUKDS63RJGHVZKID5HUD34.jpg?&w=1080)
