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The Daily Article

Homeless man now feeds hundreds a day: Finding our empowering purpose through service

The Daily Article

The Denison Forum

News, Daily News, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.9576 Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2020

⏱️ 9 minutes

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THE DAILY ARTICLE FOR DECEMBER 16, 2020

A homeless man in Atlanta now leads a nonprofit that feeds hundreds a day. Today's podcast tells his story, then we explore the need to serve others for the sake of society and discover empowering truth in an obscure passage of Scripture.

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This is the Daily Article podcast, published by the Denison Forum for Culture-Changing Christians.

0:07.8

To receive the Daily article directly to your email inbox each weekday morning, visit

0:12.5

thedailyarticle.com. Now here's today's news, discerned differently.

0:20.7

Anthony Delgado lived on the streets of Atlanta, Georgia, panhandling to feed his drug addiction.

0:27.5

One day, a man and woman told him he should go to the VA hospital.

0:32.4

No one around him saw the couple, however.

0:35.1

He started panhandling again, but developed chest pain. A man stopped to help

0:40.1

and gave him a token for a train ride to the hospital. When Delgado stepped onto the train,

0:46.4

the man had vanished. Delgado made it to the hospital, joined a rehab program, and got help

0:53.0

from a pastor. He told the minister the story of the

0:56.2

vanishing couple and the man who gave him the train token, and the pastor replied, believe it

1:02.4

or not, there are angels. Delgado got a job, and then, after a church service about obedience,

1:09.3

took bags of bread to the spot where he used to sleep on the

1:12.4

streets. Within 45 minutes, all the bread and pastries were gone. As I was driving back, I started crying,

1:20.4

he said. Thank you, Father God. I found my purpose in life. Now Delgado has seven employees,

1:32.8

two buildings, 17 freezers, and two trucks in the organization he founded, I Care Atlanta, Inc.

1:35.7

His nonprofit feeds hundreds of people a day and also has a GED training center and financial

1:41.4

planning center.

1:42.9

During the holidays, they've been distributing new toys to kids and holding food drives.

1:48.1

Delgado told a reporter,

1:50.0

We all need to help each other.

1:52.5

We're in a bad state right now.

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