This waitress made 270,000 meals to feed the homeless in Florida

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I'm your host Jimmy Hinton.

Today's story brings us to Florida and it's a story about sheer grit and determination

and faith and excellence and giving all of those things combined and so much more.

This story is absolutely fascinating and it captured my heart and especially as a pastor

and somebody who works with the church that I'd say the majority of my church members

are living in poverty, we're living in a very poor county in Pennsylvania and it really

affects you.

Seeing poverty and watching what it does to people and how that doesn't determine people's

future is actually really inspiring and it brings a lot of hope and I hope that this

story today brings hope to people who maybe have that misconception that once you're

living in poverty that's kind of the end of your story and that you're going to be stuck

there because that's the American message, right, the wrong message.

It's the message that Congress wants you to hear.

How many representatives talk about poverty and how well people are just they're stuck

in these endless cycles and the only answer is government, right, bigger government.

We've got to raise the debt ceiling and we've got to give more in terms of food stamps

and housing assistance and on and on and on and that list never stops.

And of course, very few of those tax dollars actually make it to actual people living in

poverty.

There is still, I don't care what people say, still even after doge had its way, quote

unquote, with the budgetary items, there's still a lot of waste, unbelievable waste.

And a lot of people live in poverty, I know from working with them, they don't see many

of US tax dollars, they just don't.

And there's another misconception from a lot of people on the conservative right that

people don't need any money, right, let them kind of figure things out and go out there

and get a real job like the rest of us, that's kind of their mantra.

Well, the problem with that is there are a lot of people who are just stuck at least

temporarily and they need help is what they need.

They need help getting jobs, finding jobs, doing things as simple as for us, simple anyway,

doing identification.

A lot of people who are living in homelessness, they don't have proper documentation and I'm

not talking about illegal people who poured over the border, I'm talking about US citizens.

It's very, very common.

In fact, I'd say it's probably more common than not, at least in my area, what I've experienced,

I don't know, I didn't really research this aspect of it, but in my experience, more

often than not, people living in homelessness have no identification.

Typically it's either lost or stolen or they don't have a license or they had a license

that expired and they just weren't thinking and they threw their license out because it

wasn't valid and on and on it goes and so they lose essentially all forms of identification

and it creates a lot of havoc for them.

I mean, you try to go out and get a job if you have zero identification, none and even

try to get housing.

If you don't have bills and you're right, they want two forms of bills that prove that

you're a resident of the state or the county, at least two, plus your identification, usually

two forms of identification.

They want something like a Social Security card and a license or picture ID of some sort,

support ID card.

If somebody doesn't have a license, they will issue an ID card, but they want all these

forms of identification and that's just for starters.

Then they want proof of income, even for low income housing.

No matter what your quote income is, whether it's a job or you're on some kind of assistance

from the government, they want proof of that.

And oftentimes people either don't have assistance, they don't have jobs or they just don't

have the paperwork.

And so it's a really, really big problem for people.

So it's very complex.

I just want people to understand, it's a complex issue.

And it's not as simple as shouting out the window for people who are holding signs, will

do anything for money, shouting insults at them and telling them to go get a job, 99% of

the time isn't very helpful.

And so we need to think beyond that and think of ways to actually serve people and help

them out.

And that doesn't even get into the transportation issue.

Think about transportation.

I suppose that they do get a job, okay, how do they get there?

It's not that simple.

I don't know, I don't know, last year, I don't remember what month it was.

It doesn't really matter, but we were helping out a young homeless woman and she didn't

have transportation.

I asked her, I just said, what are your immediate needs?

And she was so incredibly grateful.

She was just very pleasant to work with.

And sometimes that's not always the case and I get it, they're living a hard life, certainly

don't judge.

But often times, I mean, more often than not, we're lied to.

And I think that's just a part of life.

It's part of survival.

Not that they're bad people, it's just that they've become accustomed to survival.

And they learn pretty quickly that if they just tell the truth, oftentimes that doesn't

help get them ahead, it doesn't move them forward.

And so this woman had told me that she needed a bicycle and I was like, well, that's something

I can actually help with.

We had my wife had a bike that I had and a good one, it was in really good shape.

She just wanted to upgrade and I had bought her a bike.

And so we had this other bike that was in really good working order and I just gave it

to her.

And I thought, man, and she was so grateful.

And I thought, man, how crazy is that?

That something as simple as a bicycle can be life changing for somebody, living in homelessness.

And oftentimes we just don't think about those things, that it takes small steps, just

something, a little something to help improve somebody's life, or to make them mobile,

or to help them get identification, or to help them fill out her resume.

Like these little simple things really, really help.

So with all that said, I want to turn to Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Here's a waitress who doesn't have that much money, she's not extremely wealthy.

You know, this is not somebody who's a millionaire or even close to it that just has extra money

at her disposal when she's helping homeless people.

This is a waitress.

Here's an article in this, caught my attention and I started digging into the organization

and the deeper I dig, the more I find, this woman is just absolutely incredible.

Her name's Gloria.

She's a waitress, if we're at Lauderdale, and she has fed more than 270,000 meals to

homeless Floridians.

That's incredible in itself, but like I said, it doesn't even stop there.

This woman is absolutely incredible.

She's an immigrant.

She came to the United States, I don't know, a couple of decades ago, and decided that

she was going to make a difference in life because she grew up extremely poor.

And again, this goes back to this idea that when you let your hidden lighten a shine,

there's always a story behind that.

And I know a lot of people are like, oh, I don't have a story.

Yes, you do.

It doesn't mean that you lived a hard life and had this, you were a gang banger and whatever

it was.

You don't have to have this extreme story to say that you have a story.

Not everybody's story is dramatic, not everybody's story is hard.

Some people have lived an incredibly good life, but they still have a story and they're

still helping people tremendously.

So I don't want people to get this in their head, that the only way that they're able

to help people is that they live this life of poverty or abuse or both.

And they have to have this hardened life and come out of that and be given an upper

hand in order to let their hidden lighten a shine.

That's just not true.

That is absolutely 100% false.

I've covered a lot of stories of people like Gloria who grew up in extreme poverty and

who are absolute world changers, the phenomenal people, the things that she's doing are absolutely

incredible.

And I've also done stories like the Dell, billionaires who've given money to the Trump accounts.

Right?

So you don't have to have this hard story, a hard upbringing, this tough life to be able

to make a difference in the world.

You can literally have the easiest life and still do kind things to other people.

And they do.

People do.

And that's one of the frustrating things that I experience is all the narratives that

are out there.

There's so many false narratives that paint people on every end of the spectrum.

They paint people as terrible people.

Homeless people are lazy.

They're just a bunch of drugies who they just make the choice, right?

Have you ever heard that?

People choose to be homeless.

They get painted as troublemakers, lazy, terrible humans, let them die, right?

People actually believe that.

Some people do.

There are drug problems with a lot of homeless people.

And there are people who are like, well, just let them overdose.

Why would you use Narcan on people?

They're just a blight on society.

That's such a false narrative.

It's a terrible thing to think.

It's a terrible thing to say.

But the same is true of billionaires.

You know, there was a famous YouTuber, slash tick tocker, slash social media influencer,

Ray Johnson.

I don't know if you're familiar with Ray Johnson, but I love his videos.

I think he's just brilliant.

He's very creative.

He does an incredible job.

But he did a story recently about the ocean gate, you know, the ocean gate, Titan, the

submarine that imploded.

And on board, it had billionaire, Hameesh Harding, all of them died.

The thing imploded and it just, it was a terrible, terrible heartbreaking story.

And what about pride and arrogance and ignoring warnings and all that stuff, okay?

So Hameesh Harding died.

He was the billionaire businessman, Chairman of Action Aviation, Stockton Rush, died.

He was the CEO of Ocean Gate and the pilot of the Titan, Shazada Daywood and Suelman,

his son, the prominent Pakistani British businessman and Paul Henry Narglet, the French

deep sea explorer and leading Titanic expert.

They all perished in that and rated a story about how the public went absolutely like they

cheered the deaths.

He's like people all over the world were celebrating, like making fun of them and making fun of

the tragedy and his point was this was a really terrible thing that happened.

And it's just this idea that because you have billionaires and rich people and, you know,

there was a little bit of pride that was introduced into this story and it's a sad story it

really is.

But he said it really was a bizarre thing where the world celebrated like they thought

it was hilarious that these people died.

And he just said how cruel people can be and, you know, so you get people on both ends

of this spectrum and there are people who criticize them.

But my point is it doesn't matter where you come from.

It doesn't matter if you had a silver spoon in your mouth from the time you were born

or if you were born in extreme poverty, we all can make a difference.

And glorious story, I'm going to share this after the break here, but it is absolutely

phenomenal.

It's so cool and so powerful.

And I consider her an angel, her, her husband and her kids, they're angels.

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A Florida waitress has served more than 270,000 meals to homeless.

This is really incredible, it's an incredible story.

And Gloria Vargas is an immigrant from Barbados.

She moved to the United States in I believe it was 1987, yeah, 87, only to end up battered

and alone without food or a safe place to sleep.

And she was 1400 nautical miles from family.

This is on her website care and action USA her organization that you want to talk about

scaling a business which was not a business and I don't know that it even can be considered

a business.

It's a 501c3 I believe and she's not in this for the money.

But she began to scale what she was doing and that's hitting out food to homeless.

But she came to the United States and was really, really struggling, in fact she struggled

grown up.

She's one of six children born to hardworking parents who labored in sugar cane fields.

And she never realized that she was poor grown up.

Sometimes that's the case.

People living in poverty don't realize it's just, it is what it is.

And they don't really think about it.

Their parents don't focus on the fact that they're poor.

And so Gloria came to the United States, she moved to America and she started to muster

up her strength.

She learned how to cook, clean, wash, take care of a family by the time she was 13.

And oftentimes this is the case, young children become, they become the parents, they have

to grow up really, really quickly.

And they are incredibly resourceful.

She had crafted bed sheets out of flour sacks.

She attended to her siblings, even her older ones.

She would rush home from school and make the family supper on a caracene stove.

I really impossible conditions.

But she learned how to improvise.

She learned how to be creative.

She learned essentially how to survive.

And when she moved to America, I think she was expecting this wonderful instant transformation

and that's not what she got.

She really struggled.

For many years, according to her, she said, God had a plan for all my hardships.

For many years of putting one foot in front of the other, taking any job that she could

just to get by, according to her website, all while getting, rooting herself in the hope

that comes through prayer, I love the faith element in this.

Wait till you hear what her and her family are doing.

Maria now works as a waitress.

She's married again.

And she has two beautiful sons of her own.

Really incredible story, but I want to go back to this good news network story.

This one just published a couple of weeks ago.

And it's just an update.

I mean, she's been doing this for years, but she is on the map.

And I love that.

She should be.

So here's how it all began.

She started running the operation of feeding from her home in Fort Lauderdale since 2012.

She said, I started buying a little bit of spaghetti and ground beef.

And I started with 40 meals.

She's now 62.

She said the next week it went to 60 meals, 80 meals, before you know it, I was at 200

meals every weekend.

Now, I don't know about you, but I feed five people, right?

Yes, my wife and I, we have three kids, we're a family of five.

It's expensive.

She's on a waitress's salary, feeding 200 people every single weekend, 200 meals.

That's absolutely incredible.

You want to talk about using all of your money for food?

Are you listening to the expense?

We funded this all on our own.

On a waitress's salary, using all her resources, Gloria now purchases huge amounts of chicken,

fish, fresh produce, rice, bread, and bottled water enough to feed 175 to 200 people.

Her son's right, God loves you, or some kind of encouraging scripture on every single

meals, styrofoam lid.

And they minister to the downtrodden by listening to their stories.

What's really cool about this is, you want to know what day of the week they do this?

Sunday.

Now, I got to tell you is a pastor.

Let me just tell you how upside down this, this is for a lot of Christians, how uncomfortable

this is for a lot of Christians.

I guarantee, now the story doesn't say this, but I just know.

I know from 20 years of experience in ministry, I guarantee she gets criticism.

Why don't you go to church?

You're out here doing this and you call yourself a Christian, but you're not, quote, going

to church.

And I got to tell you, I mean, story after story after story in the Bible, Jesus upends

the synagogue worship, which was their worship service.

He upends that by healing people, by walking out, by sending people out of the synagogue

and staying going peace, go home.

I mean, it drove the religious leaders absolutely insane, it drove them crazy.

They were, they hated him, right?

You don't disrupt the worship service.

And we've made the worship service our God, right?

That's the Bible over and over again, and I'm not saying that we should not go to worship.

I am a very, very, very, I guess committed person to worship, to weekly worship.

I think it's important.

I think it's vital.

I think the fellowship is very important.

I think that it's necessary, but with that said, there are other ways to minister to people

which according to James, that's true and undefiled religion.

James the brother of Jesus has a really, really good grasp on this.

They kind of hits people right between the eyes and it's a wake up call for Christians.

He says if anyone thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue, but deceives

his heart, this person's religion is worthless.

Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father is this, to visit the orphans

and widows in their affliction and to keep oneself unstained from the world.

That's it.

You want pure and undefiled religion?

Visit the orphans and widows in their affliction and keep yourself unstained from the world.

Don't get caught up in all the traps of the world and all the greed and bitterness and

anger and hatred.

Don't get caught up in that stuff, but instead visit the orphans and widows.

That's what curing undefiled religion is.

She decided to take this very literally and uses her Sundays to deliver the meals.

I love that.

I absolutely love that.

During a COVID-19 pandemic, when other organizations shut down, Gloria Vargas expanded her operation

to serve up to 600 meals, feeding communities in both Fort Lauderdale and Miami.

Are you hearing this?

That's so cool.

The government's shutting everybody down.

They're shutting these organizations down.

People are living in fear and panic.

We all lived through the pandemic.

We all remember the nightmare that it was, not Gloria, she ain't scared.

She's like, let's ramp this up.

A lot of people, they used COVID, they used the pandemic as an excuse to not do ministry.

I promise you, I know, I know a lot of Christian leaders that they just backed way away and

their churches have never really recovered.

They used it as an excuse.

I heard a lot of churches, I know a lot of churches that split during the pandemic.

They literally split.

A lot of them were fighting over whether you mask or unmask and like they literally split

over that and a lot of churches closed their doors.

I have friends whose churches closed their doors permanently.

And all I heard were excuses.

Well the government, this, the government, that, the government made it so hard on us.

What did Gloria do?

She ramped up her ministry.

Hey, we're feeding 200 people.

Let's make it 600.

We're feeding people in Fort Lauderdale.

What if we could expand a Miami too?

You know what she says here?

When it's cold, when it's windy, when it's raining, it doesn't matter.

We have to show up.

Rain or shine, windy, colder warm, doesn't matter.

They show up.

Why?

Because people are still hungry.

Homeless people don't get a break from the weather.

They live outside to your round.

Gloria knows this.

I love her shirt by the way.

There's a picture of her serving people, serving meals, and she's wearing a shirt that

says, don't tell me you care for me, show me you care for me.

I'm like, man, that's so cool.

I want to meet her so bad.

She's looks like such an incredible person.

So there was a generous seed grant from the Buyers Foundation.

That allowed her to set up her non-profit, Care and Action USA.

Now it's a daily operation.

She prepares approximately 120 breakfasts and 125 dinners, which are distributed to waiting

crowds in under 40 minutes.

So it's a pretty well-oiled machine.

She says that the scope of Care and Action USA extends well beyond meal preparation, too.

This is where we get into the nuts and bolts of her scaling this ministry.

Her family assists people with rent, utility payments, hotel rooms, bus passes, new clothes,

and on and on and on.

Oh, it gets better.

Her husband Antonio is a certified auto mechanic.

Hmm, I wonder where this is going.

Oh, yeah, that's right.

He uses his skills to repair cars for free and to drive folks to job interviews and appointments.

Gloria says my husband can make so much more money doing the job he does, but he takes

homeless people to appointments.

Are you hearing this?

This is incredible.

This is what success looks like in America.

People are so often about chasing money, chasing fame, chasing all this stuff.

I just did this thing on only fans and how it really has opened up a conversation since

the pandemic, a lot of young women, especially, are being trapped in this idea that you need

to sell sex in order to make money.

Get on only fans.

You'll make all this money.

The average, the average amount of money that women make exposing themselves, that stuff

is out there forever.

Those pictures and videos, I promise you, they're websites that even though there's a pay

wall, they're websites where people, they pay for the service for a month, they steal

the pictures and videos, and then they archive them on other websites.

That stuff is out there forever.

Forever.

The average monthly payment is about $100.

I mean, it's false hope.

People are chasing what they think is the American dream and they're getting themselves deeper

and deeper in debt.

They're exposing themselves.

They're putting all this stuff out there that's forever on the internet and not Gloria.

She's like, you know, my husband could be making a whole lot more money being an auto

mechanic, but instead, he's driving people to appointments.

He's taking homeless people to their appointments.

He's fixing their cars for free.

It's incredible.

That's the American dream.

Blessing people, helping people.

That's our family's prayer every single night.

God bless us more so that we can bless more people.

That's it.

I don't care about fame and money and all, like my family just doesn't care about that

stuff.

Now it's nice.

Right?

I wrote a book about tithing your time and money.

I'm all about building generational wealth, but for what purpose?

To free you up, to be able to help more people, to bless more people.

The article goes on to say thanks to donations and volunteers.

The couple says they've opened a transitional home that has housed eight men who pay between

300 and 400 in rent if they maintain employment requirements.

It's incredible.

They have, they provide housing.

They fix cars for free.

They take people to job interviews.

They take people to doctor's appointments.

All of this, they fund themselves or through the organization.

That's incredible.

The article goes on to say people are blessed by Gloria's food to be sure, but they're drawn

like magnets to her story, her family's kindness and her example of love.

Good on buyers, by the way.

Buyers organization for seeding money for her to be able to start her own organization.

That's incredible.

She is helping thousands and thousands of people.

There was another article that said she had given about $50,000 of her own money.

I think it was for helping people with rent.

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Gloria is a waitress in Fort Lauderd, who is given over 270,000 meals to people.

Her husband fixes people's cars for free.

He's an auto mechanic, a certified auto mechanic.

Her son's right Bible verses and messages of encouragement on every single styrofoam box

for these meals that go out to people.

But it goes on.

They do more.

They provide housing for people.

They just recently opened up a transitional housing for people.

They house eight men who pay between $304 and $400 in rent, as long as they maintain

employment requirements.

And they do so much more.

They do Bible studies.

Her husband does Bible studies on Monday for people that they serve.

People are coming to know Christ, not just through acts of kindness, but through Bible study.

Here's another article, this is an article that was written a couple years ago, almost

three years ago now.

But it's on gentlybooks.com.

Gloria of Argus and Care and Action USA strive to help homeless.

My name is Monica Lakhind, I'm a single mother of two autistic children.

During COVID, I was a domestic violence survivor, which left us homeless, jobless, financially

unstable, and sleeping on the streets of Broward County.

That's where I met this amazing person, so full of energy, spreading hope, and grace,

while feeding the homeless on the street of our community.

This exceptional woman is Gloria of Argus.

Gloria is a full-time waitress who works in Delray Beach.

During her time away from work, she uses her every spare moment she has, helping the

homeless women and children on the streets of Fort Lauderdale.

Gloria founded Care and Action USA in 2012.

This vargus, along with her husband Antonio Vargas and her son, Cedric Lewis, she has

two sons.

They've been cooking meals for the homeless since 2012 on Sundays to provide hot meals

for the homeless in this community.

They feed and provide services for the homeless, help families find services for housing, give

support for their needs and spiritual support, as well as Bible studies conducted by her

husband Antonio Vargas.

The Bible studies take place on Mondays at 12.30 pm, shortly afterwards lunches served

at 1.45 pm, and a second distribution of meals at 5.30 pm to 6 pm.

In Stron Park, downtown Fort Lauderdale, they've been fighting for the plight of the

homeless for the past eight years.

There are too many lives lost and destroyed while waiting for help, and most people believe

the myth that mental health creates homelessness.

The lack of affordable housing adds stress to the homeless, mental health crisis, Gloria

and her family have cooked and served well over 200,000 meals, but this mission doesn't

come easily.

Gloria pleads to the politicians to address affordable housing.

Section 8 vouchers did not solve the problem, and it has not just become a poor man's

problem due to our current inflation crisis.

That was three years ago.

I mean, look at where we are now.

It's gotten worse, and I've talked about this plenty of times, I've talked about homelessness,

and how the largest number of people entering into homelessness are couples with children.

It's mom and dad and kids.

By far, that's the biggest demographic of people entering into homelessness, and it's

getting worse, not better.

Look at what the value of houses has done.

I mean, there was a tiny little correction just recently.

I don't know how closely you all keep an eye on that.

I look on Zillow all the time, and I just kind of check it out, see what the value of homes

is doing, but there was a little dip where it lost, homes kind of lost value for a little

bit, and now they're going right back up again.

And they're going to continue to, I have news for people.

The value of homes is going to continue to climb a climb climb.

This is not good news for people who are living in homelessness.

Why?

Because as the value of homes increases, so does rent.

It's increasing.

That's, you know, Mamm Donnie is on his big kick in New York City.

He's going to put a freeze on rent, no good luck with that.

You know, people, yeah, people get gouged and all four accountability when people are

getting gouged by the homeowners when they're charging too much rent, and they're taking

advantage of people, yeah, we ought to crack down on that.

I get it.

I'm all for that.

But putting a freeze on rent and staying, we're going to keep rent exactly where it's at

for the foreseeable future, good luck.

Because as the value of properties increases, it costs homeowners a tremendous amount of

money, number one, to purchase them, but also to maintain them.

Yeah, I just talking to people here, I got a roof on my house, I don't know, 12 years

ago, and just talking to people, local people here, the cost to put a roof on has more than

doubled in the last 12 years.

For the similar size house, people are telling me what they're, what they're spending to put

a roof on, and my jaw hits the floor, and I'm like, holy cow, I thought it was expensive.

Whenever I put a roof on, it's more than double, more than double.

So affordable housing is, it's a major issue, and it's contributing to homelessness.

Homelessness is not going to be eradicated in the United States, it's just not.

Even Jesus addressed that.

You know, there were systems in place to ensure that every single person living in poverty

was taken care of.

The Old Testament has plenty of regulations.

From farmers leaving the outsides of their fields, don't harvest the outside of the

fields, leave that for people to glean, people who are homeless, and traveling through

leave the corners of the fields.

That was a commandment.

Don't be tight-fisted towards people who are in need, on and on and on, there are lots

of scriptures, lots and lots and lots of scriptures.

There were a lot of commandments and regulations for how inheritances were supposed to be handled.

But then Jesus said, the poor, you will always have with you.

But I think people get this idea, and you hear politicians talk about it all the time.

We're going to eliminate homelessness, no, you're not.

I've got news for you, it's not going to happen.

And by the way, not to sound negative, this is just truth, it's just fact.

The wealth gap in America is widening every single day.

The wealthy are getting wealthier, and the poor are getting poorer.

That's just a fact.

That's the way it is.

And we can be moaned that, we can point to the government, we can belly ache, we can

protest, we can do all those things, and it's not going to fix it.

So what do we do?

What do we do knowing that this wealth income gap is growing dramatically?

I think a lot of people have in their minds that as the economy crashes, like a lot of

people believe it or not, want the economy to crash because they think that's going

to hurt poor people.

It is not.

It's not going to fix you.

Wealthy people right now, people who understand how money works, how it flows, as soon as

this war is done in Iran, the wealthier are going to become so much more wealthy.

They're positioning themselves very wisely, in my opinion, you know, they understand how

the stock market works, they understand how corrections work, they understand all of

that stuff.

So they're stacking themselves right now.

They're buying up stocks so that when the market begins to take off, they're going to

do quite well.

I'm doing the same thing.

I'm very transparent about that.

I'm positioning myself, buying things at a discount, buying stocks at a discount, doing

my research on which stocks I want to buy, what I don't want to buy, I'm very selective.

But there is a wealth gap, there is, it's here.

The poor people who either don't have money or they don't understand how money works,

they are becoming more poor in America, that's a fact.

So what we do, what we do to help with that is that we serve people, we bless people.

We don't point fingers and say, wow, you missed the boat.

It's free.

You could be on this boat too, but you chose not to, no.

What we do is we lend a hand to them.

We minister to them.

We feed them.

We feed the hungry.

We cloth the naked, right, Jesus says that this is the test that separates the goats

from the sheep.

People who go to hell and people who go to heaven, what separates them is not how often

you went to church, but it's whether your religion was pure and undefiled.

Did you care for the orphans and the widows in their distress?

Did you clothe people who were naked?

Did you feed people who were hungry?

Did you give water to people who were thirsty?

So I'm going to read a little bit more on the Jettany books.

It's a really, really great article.

So just to give you a little bit of context for what's going on in Florida, and this is

being replicated across America.

The woman who wrote this, she said, my family and I were homeless for over a year and a

half.

The same programs that were developed to help the disadvantaged are destroying the lives

one family at a time and does not solve the homelessness crisis.

Did you hear that?

We have to understand this.

This is from somebody who is living out in the streets.

They know better than any of us.

Trust me.

She said the same programs that were developed to help the disadvantaged are destroying

lives one family at a time does not solve the homelessness crisis.

Gloria started reaching out to numerous politicians in the last 18 years to offer common sense

solutions to combat this problem.

Gloria believes that social class is one of the biggest hurdles that the lower class has

to deal with.

It's exactly what I was just talking about.

Gloria even has proof of this.

For years, Gloria's fight to help the lower class has been dismissed by the government

officials who refuse to even meet with her to discuss to address these issues.

Housing a crisis like this is just as big as the fentanyl problem in the state if not

bigger.

Affordable housing has affected 70% of the lower and middle income people.

Enter DeSantis has attacked almost every problem except housing in the state of Florida.

Care and action ink is mostly supported by private donors along with a few small donations

from working class people as well as a few continual major donors such as the late Bob

buyers from Shalfan, Pennsylvania.

Alan and Megan Camisa from San Diego, California, Larry and Tammy Klum from Ohio, and Lewis

Dominguez from Florida.

So it's a handful of donors that are making this possible.

Not the government, basically the messages, government get out of the way, we're here

to serve.

I love this.

I love that this started as a grassroots movement and it started with one family, with one woman

who then brought in her husband and her two sons and they are absolutely changing the

world.

They're changing the world as we know it.

They're making the world a brighter, better place and they're going to continue to scale

this.

I mean, every year, this organization just gets better and better.

And I think that's so incredible.

Care and action USA, I'll link to all of these links in the show notes and I just, I want

to pray for Gloria and her family.

I want to pray for the people living in homelessness as these numbers continue to grow.

It's a problem.

It's not going away.

You can see it.

All of us instinctively know it.

If you're from a city or if you drive into cities, you see the homeless encampments.

They're all over the place and in the past five years, they've grown like I've never seen

ever in my lifetime.

You know, I'm in my mid upper forties and I have never seen the amount of homeless encampments

every time that I go into any city, it doesn't matter where it is, what time of year it is,

how cold it is.

It doesn't matter.

I've never seen the amount of homelessness that I'm seeing now.

So it's here, it's here to stay.

The question is, what are we going to do about it?

Are we going to be the glory of varguses?

Are we going to open our eyes and our hearts to see the problems that's on the street?

I pray that we do.

I really, really pray that we encounter homeless people and that we have a heart for them and

that we bless them beyond measure.

The American people can do it.

The money is there.

We have the wealth in this nation to turn it around.

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