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Jul 2022
35m 48s

Matthew Martin, From Homeless to Hero

HERITAGE RADIO NETWORK
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Matthew Martin is a remarkable man. A Lutheran minister who spent much of college homeless, he's managed to mobilize thousands of volunteers who come in to work on an "assembly line" in a local church to package meals that have fed over 39 million people over the past few years. This spring, over a million of the meals went to Ukraine.

Photo Courtesy of  Matthew Martin.

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