I had just had an Uber ride, and this gentleman told me he was about to go through divorce because his wife said, you know what, I'm tired of always being on the precipice of homelessness.

He kind of took me through the story, and I thought, wow, why do we wait for families or individuals to get to that point?

Because for every family experiencing homelessness, you can rewind and find a mishap, a medical

challenge, something that happened. It's a missed opportunity.

Music thing that happened, it's a missed opportunity. Welcome to the Good Faith podcast. I'm your host, Curtis Chang. The Good Faith podcast is where friends

who follow Jesus help each other make sense of the world. And an enduring reality of the world

is the presence of poverty. Even in a prosperous society like America, over 11% of all Americans are

living below the poverty rate. Now, the presence of the poor is something we as followers of

Jesus simply cannot ignore. Any just even beginning understanding of scripture will recognize how much God cares for the poor

and expects his people to do so as well. So the question of whether we should care about the

poor is really not really a question. And if you aren't familiar with the scripture,

we're going to put in the show notes, some scripture that just makes that abundantly clear. So the

question of whether we should care for the poor is not the question. The question that abundantly clear. So the question of whether

we should care for the poor is not the question. The question that has always haunted me,

and I think many people, especially those with resources, is how? How are we supposed to care

for the poor? What can any of us, especially those of us with resources and privilege, what can

any of us really do? And those are the questions

that led me to my guest for this episode, Jacelle Geraway. Jacelle is quite familiar with the

world of resources and privilege. She's a graduate of Howard University and Harvard Business School,

and she began her career at one of the leading consulting

firms of the world, Bain and companies. She went on to senior corporate roles at

Sephora, Fidelity, Staples. And then she made a startling change. She left that world to embark

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