As a teen she happened to meet Bertha Munro, the dean of Eastern Nazarene College, who arranged for her to attend ENC's academy.

[1] Soon after earning her B.A., she started a simple hotline by posting handwritten flyers on telephone poles and in subways and laundromats, which read, "Do you have problems?

To raise their awareness, she began parking her van in front of City Hall where officials could look out their office windows and see her serving long queues of homeless people.

[4] Sanger next started a food pantry to deliver groceries to the elderly, and a program to provide them with transportation for shopping and medical care.

The article begins: In the Boston area south-shore communities, a dynamite little woman named Esther Sanger, 65, continually looks for ways to serve throw-away people like the homeless, hungry, alcoholics, drug users, AIDS victims, battered women, elderly poor, and deserted mothers with babies.

Her unique compassionate ministry is called Quincy Crisis Center...Esther Sanger serves as the founder, spark plug, fund raiser, chief cook, legal advocate, crafty strategist, and Christian example in these crisis-intervention efforts.

[1]In an interview she said she considered herself pro-life, but found it troubling that in the anti-abortion movement there was "a great deal of interest in the unborn child but very few places to help out after the baby is born."