Be Rich 2025: A Conversation with Bruce Deel // Andy Stanley and Bruce Deel
North Point Community Church
North Point Community Church
4.7 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 September 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | So once again, I want to join those. I want to welcome those of you who are watching online, and those of you who are watching from all of our Atlanta area churches and churches all over the country that are joining us for this Be Rich season. Our special guest today is Bruce Deal. He is the founder and the CEO of the City of Refuge, located in West Atlanta. He'll tell you more about that in just a minute. City of Refuge has been a be-rich partner for many, many years, and it's one of our |
| 0:24.6 | favorite partners, primarily because it's in the city of Atlanta and serves our city so well. |
| 0:29.5 | City of Refuge actually serves people facing poverty, addiction, homelessness, women who's |
| 0:35.5 | been trafficked, the children of the mothers who've been trafficked. |
| 0:39.8 | They provide housing, health care, job training, child care, education, and they do this all in |
| 0:44.8 | one location. This was Bruce's unrealistic. Nobody does that. People told him not to do it. Vision, |
| 0:50.5 | and it is working. And as you're going to discover, it's not just working in the city of Atlanta. |
| 0:54.6 | It's working in some other cities as well. City of refuge, and this is so important, is not a charity. |
| 1:00.6 | They literally move people. This is why we love to partner with them. They literally move people from crisis to stability to independence. |
| 1:08.9 | In fact, one of Bruce's br's-Brusisms is this, |
| 1:11.3 | I love this, he says, |
| 1:12.4 | we don't do good things for people, |
| 1:14.6 | we do good things with people. |
| 1:17.0 | So would you please welcome our friend, Bruce Steele. |
| 1:32.6 | So as we get started, Bruce, Bruce's going to tell his story in just a minute, but I want our congregation to know where city of refuge is located. |
| 1:36.4 | So where is it located? |
| 1:38.6 | It's a relation to the city. |
| 1:39.4 | We have a picture here to kind of give a perspective. |
| 1:41.5 | Yeah, so we're on the west side of Atlanta. |
| 1:43.4 | We're about two miles directly west of the World Congress Center and Mercedes-Benz Stadium. Zip code 30314, |
| 1:49.9 | known to those that live lives maybe not like you and me today as the bluff. And so a lot of bad |
| 1:55.3 | stuff happens in our neighborhood historically. Highest crime rate state of Georgia, highest homeless |
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