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Goodwill
Rescue Mission offers help and hope to North Jersey’s urban
poor and dispirited.
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For mind and body:
food, clothing, shelter, training and teaching. |
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For soul and spirit: the life-changing
message of God’s love revealed in Jesus Christ. |
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David Carter stood in front
of White Castle Hamburgers, singing rap songs for pocket
change, when a car screeched by. Someone inside began firing
rounds into the restaurant’s window, sending a bullet
through David’s left thigh.
Getting hurt was nothing new for David, who had lived on
the streets of Newark for nearly two decades. "I went
through a lot of stabbings," he explains. "It
was part of just being out there on the streets and being
in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong people."
But this time was different. David was almost 40, and he
was tired and sick. He knew he needed help — and freedom
from the loneliness and danger of the streets.
David’s troubles began in 1982 — the year his
mother died; he discovered his girlfriend with another man;
and his apartment burned, destroying everything he owned.
"That’s when I turned to alcohol and marijuana,"
he says.
For 18 years, David holed up in hallways, garages and cars,
keeping himself alive — and drunk — on the little
he made doing odd jobs.
On the day of the White Castle shooting, however, he realized
he couldn’t live like this any longer. He whispered
a desperate prayer: "Please, God, guide me and lead
me."
A week later, David came to the Mission looking for a meal.
Instead, he found a Savior and the freedom he desired so
much. "I learned Jesus welcomed me just the way I was,"
David remembers.
After graduating from GRM’s long-term recovery program,
Project Emmanuel, last November, David stayed at the Mission
working in customer communications and ministering to homeless
men.
"I see brothers come into the chapel who used
to be my friends. They say, David? You’re not the
one who was sitting on the corner drinking wine, are you?
Man, you look good! I tell them, Man, there ain’t
nothing out there for you. Turn your life over to Jesus.
I’m a walking testimony!"
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