By Sara Shelton

Home looks a little different down on L.A.’s Skid Row.  There are no white picket fences, no meticulously manicured lawns, no picturesque homes lining the blocks. Here, the sidewalks are littered with wilted cardboard boxes and dilapidated camping tents that provide shelter to the nearly 8,000 homeless people who lay their heads down each night on the streets of this dispirited area of Los Angeles.Years ago, Ron Thomas was among these nameless faces making his home on the streets and sidewalks of Skid Row.

 “I was homeless…. dirty, hungry, in need,” Thomas recalls. “I was smoking crack cocaine and my life was a mess.”
Yet in an instant, his life changed. As he sat one afternoon on a local park bench, a little girl approached Thomas to deliver one simple message of truth: Jesus loves you.

“I knew then without a shadow of a doubt, this was my way out: through the Lord Jesus Christ.”  Full Article

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