Faith On 4 Wheels: What I Learned Riding Through Trenton With A Pastor Who Refuses To Look Away

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When I stepped off the Amtrak platform in Trenton, New Jersey, toward the end of last semester, the cold air hit me like a warning. 

It was the kind of cold that sits in buildings that haven’t had heat in years. Mark Broach, pastor of the Trenton Deliverance Center church at 1100 South Clinton Avenue, was waiting in a moving truck packed so tightly with supplies it looked like a mobile lifeline. Inside were clothes, shoes, food, toiletries, blankets, and even mattresses.