As the weather gets colder, more and more homeless are turning to the People's City Mission for help.

But the Lincoln shelter is already bursting at the seams.

It's a problem mission officials have been anticipating for a while.

Too many people and not enough room.

As winter approaches, that problem is now very real.

Pastor Tom Barber, Executive Director of the Mission, says, "The big issue we have right now is we are being overrun and the weather still hasn't really turned. We had last night over 370 people at the mission, we're set up for about 300."

And Pastor Tom only expects the problem to get worse. "The worry we have is if the weather gets really cold this winter and people keep coming in, at some point we're in serious trouble."

But some of Lincoln's homeless are using a little innovation to make it through the tough times.

Ron, tenant of the Mission, says, "We made a deal that we stay in the fence line, because the police keep moving our camps and chasing us out."

Ron and some of his buddies have formed the beginnings of a tent city on the People's City Mission property.

They're using blankets and sleeping bags from the Mission to furnish their tents for the winter.

Pastor Tom says, "These are guys that either can't or won't come in because of the crowded conditions and so we're hoping to help some more folks and then have the guys sleep at night out in tents."

A situation Ron and his fellow tent mates seem to be OK with. He adds, "Most of the men have slept in the bush before so we'll be OK as long as we have tents and blankets."

And the will to survive...

Pastor Tom says the cost of feeding and taking care of people at the Mission is always going up.

He says the People's City Mission is losing a lot of money but they're hoping for the best.