((PKG: SKID ROW CHURCH))
((Banner: A Church Without Walls))
((Reporter: Mike O’Sullivan))
((Camera: Genia Dulot, Mike O’Sullivan))
((Adapted by: Zdenko Novacki))
((Map: Los Angeles, California))
((Main characters: 3 male))
((NATS))
We pray, oh God. In the mighty name of Jesus, we pray that
your will will be done.
((Stephen “Cue” JN-Marie, Pastor, Row Church))
For 14 years, we do it every Friday. Around this time, we
come out and we feed people, right? We feed them first the
spiritual word of God, we call it and then, we give them
physical food. We let them know that “Hey, you don’t have
to come to listen to the word of God in order for us to give
you food. If you just want to come when we’re serving, you
can come when we’re serving. You don’t have to listen to
me. I’m nothing special. I don’t have nothing great to say to
you except for what’s in the word of God.”
((NATS/MUSIC))
Someday, Someday.
((Kayo Anderson, Music Minister, Row Church))
The hardest hit place in Los Angeles, still praising God, still
giving him the glory, still coming out on Friday nights. And
what I’ve started to notice is happening is that more and
more people are coming back every week.
((NATS))
((Stephen “Cue” JN-Marie, Pastor, Row Church))
There are all kinds of people who come here. There are
people who are housed. There are about 9,000 people who
are housed right here in Los Angeles. And what’s in Skid
Row, what’s called Single Residency Occupancies, right
there are little small apartments, kind of like the size of a jail
cell, a small jail cell.
((NATS))
((Kevin Floyd, Homeless Shelter Resident))
There’s a lot of good people down here, but it’s like the has-
beens, the ex-gang members, the ex-pimps or prostitutes,
ex-parolees, ex-probation or their family just forgot about
them. So, they end up coming down here. It’s something
down here and it’s kind of like Paul, when he said in the
church, during the, excuse me, “you can stay down here or
you can go to heaven”. When you come to Skid Row, you
have to put on your Ephesians 6:18, your whole armor of
God. Because even when you don’t want to do something,
you see somebody doing something, so you end up wanting
to do it.
((NATS/MUSIC))
((Stephen “Cue” JN-Marie, Pastor, Row Church))
About 400,000 people are at risk of facing eviction due to
COVID-19 and all our elected officials are doing are passing
eviction moratoriums. Well, after the moratorium, somebody
has to pay that rent, right? And so, after the moratorium, all
landlords are going to do is proceed with evictions, right, with
the eviction process. And so, we’re asking them to cancel
rent.
((NATS))
((Kayo Anderson, Music Minister, Row Church))
It’s small movements like this that will shift the
paradigm. We can’t focus on the hate. We can’t focus on
what’s going on in Washington D.C. We need to focus right
here at home, individually with each person you meet and
see.
((NATS))
((Banner: A Church Without Walls))
((Reporter: Mike O’Sullivan))
((Camera: Genia Dulot, Mike O’Sullivan))
((Adapted by: Zdenko Novacki))
((Map: Los Angeles, California))
((Main characters: 3 male))
((NATS))
We pray, oh God. In the mighty name of Jesus, we pray that
your will will be done.
((Stephen “Cue” JN-Marie, Pastor, Row Church))
For 14 years, we do it every Friday. Around this time, we
come out and we feed people, right? We feed them first the
spiritual word of God, we call it and then, we give them
physical food. We let them know that “Hey, you don’t have
to come to listen to the word of God in order for us to give
you food. If you just want to come when we’re serving, you
can come when we’re serving. You don’t have to listen to
me. I’m nothing special. I don’t have nothing great to say to
you except for what’s in the word of God.”
((NATS/MUSIC))
Someday, Someday.
((Kayo Anderson, Music Minister, Row Church))
The hardest hit place in Los Angeles, still praising God, still
giving him the glory, still coming out on Friday nights. And
what I’ve started to notice is happening is that more and
more people are coming back every week.
((NATS))
((Stephen “Cue” JN-Marie, Pastor, Row Church))
There are all kinds of people who come here. There are
people who are housed. There are about 9,000 people who
are housed right here in Los Angeles. And what’s in Skid
Row, what’s called Single Residency Occupancies, right
there are little small apartments, kind of like the size of a jail
cell, a small jail cell.
((NATS))
((Kevin Floyd, Homeless Shelter Resident))
There’s a lot of good people down here, but it’s like the has-
beens, the ex-gang members, the ex-pimps or prostitutes,
ex-parolees, ex-probation or their family just forgot about
them. So, they end up coming down here. It’s something
down here and it’s kind of like Paul, when he said in the
church, during the, excuse me, “you can stay down here or
you can go to heaven”. When you come to Skid Row, you
have to put on your Ephesians 6:18, your whole armor of
God. Because even when you don’t want to do something,
you see somebody doing something, so you end up wanting
to do it.
((NATS/MUSIC))
((Stephen “Cue” JN-Marie, Pastor, Row Church))
About 400,000 people are at risk of facing eviction due to
COVID-19 and all our elected officials are doing are passing
eviction moratoriums. Well, after the moratorium, somebody
has to pay that rent, right? And so, after the moratorium, all
landlords are going to do is proceed with evictions, right, with
the eviction process. And so, we’re asking them to cancel
rent.
((NATS))
((Kayo Anderson, Music Minister, Row Church))
It’s small movements like this that will shift the
paradigm. We can’t focus on the hate. We can’t focus on
what’s going on in Washington D.C. We need to focus right
here at home, individually with each person you meet and
see.
((NATS))
