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I was interviewed by the Kingman (AZ) Daily Miner <\/em>newspaper today. In relation to Hispanic immigration, I said this is a tremendous spiritual opportunity for us to help some 12 million people by not only offering amnesty, but doing everything possible to make sure these people receive a living wage, have adequate housing, equal opportunity… It is the essence of the Gospel message, I said… After the interview, the reporter told me if I was interested in seeing more of the ‘essence of the Gospel message,’ I should call Pastor Kelly Fallis here. So I did… Pastor Kelly Fallis is the executive director of the Cornerstone Mission Project in Kingman. Cornerstone is a 30-bed homeless shelter. It is a Christian faith-based project that relies solely on donations. Cornerstone provides shelter, food, job training, education help… It’s a holistic approach to helping someone get back on their feet in a solid way, said Pastor Kelly. One dimension that is missing with Cornerstone is a drug and alcohol rehab option. So Pastor Kelly has set out to do something about that. One of Cornerstone’s board members had connections to the local Taco Bell. And last summer, Pastor Kelly took up residence on the restaurant’s roof with a bull horn and a mission. He never left the roof for the next 15 days, no shower, a lengthening beard, the whole thing. What’s more, this was in August and in 110 degree heat. CNN<\/em> did a naitonal story. Part of their footage showed Pastor Kelly continually called from the roof for people to donate for a rehab. And they did. He raised $60,000 — and lost 30 lbs. (Well, I’d imagine after awhile practically anyone would get tired of just tacos.) What’s more, Pastor Kelly told me he would have stayed up longer — but Hurricane Katrina hit. His motto is we must be as “proactive” as possible for the Lord… And this motto, Pastor Kelly believes, should be translated into our nation’s general policies as well. As an example, he noted there are scores of people regularly starving in Africa, in large part because of drought and lack of water for irrigation in general. Pastor Kelly wondered why America couldn’t build a trans-oceanic pipeline(s) [just as we built the Alaska pipeline] to carry fresh water to Africa for irrigation and other needs. Note:<\/strong> Money, indeed, could be spent on this pipeline; or for that matter, it could be spent on desalinization plants to convert ocean water to fresh water. (Africa is surrounded by water.) At the end of our last tour, there was a front page article in the Monterey Herald <\/em>explaining the Monterey Bay area was just about to start a desalinization project to convert some of the water from the Pacific there to fresh water for the Monterey Peninsula. Inother words, we have the technology — and we have the money… A couple weeks ago I noted that the Bush Administration is on the verge of proposing we spend hundreds of billions of dollars in the next couple decades to update our nuclear arsenal, including new plutonium for many of the warheads we already have. I, on the other hand, believe it would make more (spiritual) sense to move the focus away from trying to protect ourselves even more here in America — while all these people are starving in Africa. I believe the Bible verse most apt in this case would be: ‘…he who is willing to lose his life for the sake of the gospel, will save it.’<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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