“I don’t want the same people to come year after year after year for food and clothes. I want Alfonso to call me one morning as I am getting ready for work and have him say, ‘Louis, don’t come in. There is no one here. No one needs us anymore. I guess I am going to go home and look for another job.’ That is my dream. And we are working on how to get there; what there really looks like; what might we do to further empower the people of our community.” –Louis Powell, Executive Director of Santa Maria Urban Ministry, sermon from the Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost
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