Dream Center To Fight Possible Ban On Feeding Homeless

Galatians 6:9 KJV And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

The Los Angeles Dream Center is mobilizing opposition to a potential ban on feeding Los Angeles’ homeless residents.

L.A. City Councilman Tom LaBonge introduced a motion that would prohibit all organizations, including religious ones, from providing outdoor food services to the needy.  LaBonge said such activities “get in the public’s right of way” and they can have “negative impacts to the surrounding community.”

The Dream Center and supporters have started a petition drive to show that the public does not support the restrictions on feeding those in need.

“If feeding were to be banned or restricted, it would cut off our lifeline to not only feed the homeless but families,” Pastor Matthew Barnett told The Christian Post.  “Tens of thousands of people would be impacted. Mobile trucks are the only way to reach people. We’ve been doing this for nearly twenty years. Mobile outreach meets people in their world and that’s where the impacts are made.”

The National Coalition for the Homeless, based in Washington, D.C., said they will be mobilizing to help the L.A. effort.

“It’s mean-spirited to deny hungry people food and wrong for the city council to ban charitable acts,” Jerry Jones of Coalition said. “If volunteers want to feed homeless people, the city shouldn’t be throwing up roadblocks, they should be thanking them.”

3 thoughts on “Dream Center To Fight Possible Ban On Feeding Homeless

  1. No LaBlonge! You will NOT succeed! You will turn and go back the way you came! The blood of Jesus is against you! The Holy Spirit that you have blasphemed is against you! We are against you! There is nothing left for you but defeat in the mighty name of Jesus, whose I am and who I serve. You will melt away and come to nothing like snails melting in the hot sun, be gone now, in Jesus’ name!

  2. This is all a part of Revelations. The globalist agenda to destroy anything that is pure, holy, lovely, and of a good report. The New World Order is advancing rapidly as we race toward the rapture of the church. We should fight it with eery fiber of our being but the sad reality is this will all eventually come to pass when the church is taken out. The NWO will demand absolute allegiance to the world government during the 7 year tribulation period. I pray for this ministry that the city council get out of it’s way and stop interfering with the Lord’s work in Jesus Name!

  3. Economically, look at it this way. Does City Council not realize how much churches relieve the financial burden on government/ citizens as when churches provide cost of feeding and assisting families in need? City Council is “looking a gift horse in the mouth” or “cutting off their nose to spite their face. To even think of this action is stupid. Heavens to Betsy: those Council members & inconvenienced public, should be celebrating and honoring, with parades, and donations, all the religious centers that have such good, sympathetic volunteers in their city for caring enough to foot the bill and work hard to see that the needy people in THEIR community have sustinance. Council members need to walk a mile in poor peoples’ shoes & experience life as a needy family with no money to buy any necessities of life.

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