Nathan Smith of Phoenix Rescue Mission talks about how God moves through him. He says, “My wife and I started reading the gospel in a different way. There was a lot of message about good news to the poor that for some reason I had ignored.” He continues, “All those experiences together led my wife and I on a Saturday to go to the worst parts of town to hand out sack lunches and get to know people. Eventually, I brought my entire church along we went out every Saturday for a while, and broke bread, created relationship with people living on the streets; got to know them, got to serve them; really tried to break those walls down and have a kingdom meal every week. Eventually I realized that what I wanted to spend all my time doing.” Nathan asks, “What is my lasting impact?”
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Off the campus; that’s where Jesus was
Bob Moffitt interviews Darwin Campbell, Chaplain. Darwin says of the people he meets on the streets and homesteading in cars, “We go to them, meet them right where they are.” Darwin continues, “There are a lot of homeless people who are left behind. These are people who need the same services that you’re providing on the campus”, meaning a campus in downtown Phoenix which is a collaboration with St. Vincent de Paul and the City of Phoenix, with 23 different
