{"id":47128,"date":"2014-11-30T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-30T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/nbc_pastors_stint_on_the_street_opens_eyes_to_plight_of_homeless\/"},"modified":"2014-11-30T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-30T16:00:00","slug":"nbc_pastors_stint_on_the_street_opens_eyes_to_plight_of_homeless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=47128","title":{"rendered":"(NBC) Pastor&#39;s Stint On The Street Opens Eyes to Plight of Homeless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The pastor of a Sacramento megachurch had already raised the money he sought for a program to provide food and shelter to the homeless. But Rick Cole, who began the fundraiser with a stunt where he would live on the streets, couldn&#8217;t leave after only a few days. So, he spent the next two weeks living life as the homeless do \u201d\u201d and the experience opened his eyes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve walked past people that stay in some of the places of homelessness. And really almost not even noticed them, not considered their plight and what&#8217;s going on in their life. Now I was living among them,&#8221; Cole told NBC News.<\/p>\n<p>Unrecognized by his new neighbors, the 57-year-old pastor spent his days looking for food and worrying about where he&#8217;d sleep at night. He didn&#8217;t preach he didn&#8217;t proselytize. He just listened. &#8220;I think I began to experience how people ignore others. I became the one ignored. People walked by me like I didn&#8217;t exist.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/pastors-stint-street-opens-eyes-plight-homeless-n257951\">Read it all<\/a> or watch the video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pastor of a Sacramento megachurch had already raised the money he sought for a program to provide food and shelter to the homeless. But Rick Cole, who began the fundraiser with a stunt where he would live on the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=47128\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,39,42,175,168,419,435,154,184,177,88,34,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-anthropology","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-evangelicals","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-poverty","category-theology","category-urbancity-life-and-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}