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Hands and Feet initiative puts faith into action

Posted November 28th, 2017

For the Rev. Dr. J. Herbert Nelson, seeing large numbers of homeless people in one city was eye-opening. The genesis of the Hands and Feet initiative came from Nelson, stated clerk of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), after his experience at the 222nd General Assembly (2016) in Portland. He had never seen so many homeless people in one place.