The Farmer Who Kept Watering Dead Ground
In 2012, Matt Barnett stood on a cracked parking lot in downtown Los Angeles, staring at what used to be a shuttered hospital. The building...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Romans 4:13, 16-18, 22.
In 2012, Matt Barnett stood on a cracked parking lot in downtown Los Angeles, staring at what used to be a shuttered hospital. The building had been condemned. City officials called it a lost cause. Developers wanted to bulldoze it and start over. But Barnett saw something no inspection report could measure — he saw a dream church that would house the homeless, feed the hungry, and become a beacon in one of LA's most overlooked neighborhoods.…
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