[Hope Preacher]

I used to have people ask me for 6 or 7 dollars to buy pampers. After awhile I realized they weren't buying pampers. Now I rarely give money to people on the street, but I probably do more to feed the hungry and house the poor than I used to.

Our church invests well over $1000 dollars a month to feed the needy through our food pantry.

My wife and I have had a series of homeless people live with us in the past five years we have been in Springfield. In fact, Sunday I'll be baptizing yet another one.

One couple that was living with us are now like children to us.

There was a time when my wife and I had a 200 room hotel where we ran a transitional project for homeless families and almost all of them were drug addicts. A great time in the Lord.