The 1960s were one of the most tumultuous and divisive decades in the world's history.

Marked by the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, and the anti-war protests, political

assassinations, and the emerging generation gap.

Just as Black Power became the new focus of the civil rights movement in the mid-1960s,

later groups were growing impatient with incremental reforms.

Student activists grew more radical.

They took over college campuses, organized massive anti-war demonstrations, and occupied

parks in other public places.

The intensity of the decade led to a generation of young people dropping out of public life

altogether.

These hippies grew their hair long and practiced free love.

Some moved to communes, away from the turbulence that had come to define everyday life in the

1960s.

In the summer of 1969, more than 400,000 young people trooped their way to the Woodstock

music festival in upstate New York.

A harmonious three days that seemed to represent the best of the peace and love generation.

But on the west coast, in the city of angels, a ministry run by Tony and Susan Alamo saw

an opportunity in the eyes of a young generation of kids looking for something good to believe.

Their foundation religiously recruited the streets of Hollywood, California, looking

for runaways, drug addicts, black, white, bluer, green.

If you had a pulse, the Tony and Susan Alamo Christian Foundation had a place for you.

We went to church with them, and I walked in and it was mind blown because it was people

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