Pastor Banned From Feeding Homeless Because He Doesn't Have A Food Truck Permit

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Every other Saturday Rick Wood delivers hundreds of hot dogs and bottles of water to homeless people in need. But the people who rely on Wood's generosity may soon be left empty-handed.

Wood, who is a pastor at the Lord’s House of Prayer in Oneonta, Ala., has been feeding the homeless for the past six years without a glitch. But, last month, the city told Wood that he had to halt his mission because it had passed an ordinance that regulates food trucks, Think Progress reported.

Though the ordinance pertains specifically to retailers, the city said that it still applies to Wood and that he has to obtain a $500 permit in order to continue helping the homeless.

"I'm just so totally shocked that the city is turning their back on the homeless like this," he told ABC 33/40. "It's like they want to chase them out of the city. And the homeless can't help the position they're in. They need help."

But Wood has vowed to continue his service, like many other advocates who have faced similar bureaucratic measures.

Last December, Churches on the Street -- a mobile ministry in St. Louis -- was ordered to stop serving hot food to the homeless until it secured a permit, an expense that would cost the small-scale operation $150 to $300 annually, the Riverfront Times reported.

And last summer, members of Love Wins Ministries, an organization that feeds breakfast to anyone in need on weekends in Raleigh, N.C., when no soup kitchens are open, were threatened with arrests if they didn’t cease their service.

Rev. Hugh Hollowell, a pastor and director at Love Wins Ministries, said he simply couldn’t be deterred from helping those who are desperate for food.

"We will feed people," he wrote in a blog for HuffPost. "I am, after all (however imperfectly), a follower of Jesus, who said himself that when we ignore hungry people, we ignore him."

 

unbelievable

 

smh...

 

You mean you think that feeding the homeless is a solution? How can they face the reality of their situation if they aren't hungry?

You strike me more as the 'teach a man to fish' type.

 

feeding someone and encouraging them to check into a hospital, fake suicide intentions and drug them up is not the same thing...

just to be clear jbunny...soup kitchens, food banks, shelters, pro-rated electricity, pell grants for education etc are just some of the ways to supplement or help those in need

look who wants to argue? hi pot :smt006 meet kettle

 

Unbelievable...

And this is someone who's actually trying to do something good for a change.

 

Where is the con-servative Christian outrage over this? After all, this is big government preventing a good Christian from practicing his religious beliefs isn't it?


Oh wait, that only applies when they're discriminating against gays or making things harder for the poor and minorities. My bad.

 

SMH

Just think of all the illegals SELLING food without a permit.

 

Motherfuckin best post I've seen in weeks

 

Anyone know how we can contact these people? I got fifty bucks to donate to keep them going. Anyone else care to join me make things better or will we continue to sit in shock ad bad shit happens?

 

I'd be willing to bet that someone has already given the city their money for this guy cus the story has been out for a little while.

 

Alabama. Conservative local government officials. Fake Christians.


Not really that surprised.

How the fuck is this guy giving out FREE FOOD from a truck classified as violating city ordinances for food trucks??

Shit is so crazy in the deep South. Maybe we should have let them secede from the Union.

You'll never see this story on Faux News.

 

Everything is a racket. They don't care that this guy is doing good deeds for the les fortuante,so long as they (city govt.) can make a profit from it.

 

True story