text:  more time for housekeeping and setting up, and we open up as a shelter at 5.30 through 5.30 to 7 on a daily basis. We serve meals to guests. Last year, we served over 20,000 meals to people in Michigan City. 20,000. We had over 10,000 bed nights last year, and a bed night is one person, one bed, one night. There's a need in this community. We are the only shelter in LaPorte County and in a lot of area that serves men. No one takes single men.