Homeless children get $5.6 million pledge from Orlando First Baptist
March 14, 2011|By Jeff Kunerth and Kate Santich, Orlando Sentinel
CBS News/60 Minutes
Brent Trotter, president and CEO of the Coalition for the Homeless, was in church Saturday evening when a guest preacher began to challenge members of the congregation to open their hearts and wallets to homeless children.
"Finally," Trotter thought, "the church is recognizing that it has a role in solving this problem. I was excited just to hear him address the issue."
That wasn't the half of it. When the preacher took up a special collection for the homeless, the Saturday service alone pitched in $560,000.
And by the time First Baptist of Orlando added its Sunday services into the mix, it had netted an astounding $5.6 million.
Trotter — whose nonprofit agency has been promised a share of the funding — called it "legendary." Others used terms such as "historic" and "phenomenal."
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Homeless children get $5.6 million pledge from Orlando First Baptist
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