Atlanta Adult Entertainment: Inner-city ministry builds a place to heal
Posted on February 20th, 2010 in Atlanta adult entertainment
Deel, white-haired at 49, grew up near Pulaski, Va., the son of a Church of God pastor who worked regularly at missions overseas. The son came to Atlanta in 1992 to serve as associate pastor at a Doraville church before accepting a six-month assignment at the Midtown Mission Church of God.
He was supposed to shut the ailing church down and sell the property. To the contrary, he expanded the church and moved with his wife and five daughters, newborn to 11 years old, into the church building, leaving an idyllic home in Stone Mountain behind. Why? Living elsewhere “loses something in translation,” he said. “When I go home and tell the story, it’s not the same as when they’re here.”
So instead of pulling her children to a neighborhood school in a little red wagon, Rhonda Deel heard junkies and prostitutes trying to bash her windows in at 4 in the morning.
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