The Virginian-Pilot
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VIRGINIA BEACH
It could take a courthouse to get a homeless man back on his feet.
Since early 2008, Bob Hart would finish up his shift as a greeter at a Virginia Beach Kmart, drive his car behind the building, and try to catch some sleep.
Hart's fortunes changed when he got a job through a temp agency earlier this year, working at the Virginia Beach courthouse as a custodian.
"I really, really think that God sent me here to this job for a reason," said Hart, who just turned 53.
Hart's recent troubles began after he lost his apartment and a job supervising custodians in the Virginia Beach school system in 2007 after he was found sleeping in his office.
Once Hart arrived at the courthouse, however, word of his predicament quickly got around.
Another custodian started bringing in lunch for Hart. His boss lent Hart $500 to get another car when his died on the way to the courthouse.
And a docket clerk from Commonwealth's Attorney Harvey Bryant's office also heard about Hart.
"One of the custodians told me he was homeless and needed some help," Jacque Veasley said.
She joined with several people from her church to put Hart up in an Oceanfront hotel for a few weeks.
They're now also helping him pay for a more permanent place to live.
"It's nothing that we've done at all," Veasley said. "God ordained every bit of this situation."
Jen McCaffery, (757) 222-5119, jen.mccaffery@pilotonline.com
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correction
i ment to see "he might be sleeping behind the store not i" i should have proof read before i sent. i was just out raged when i read this article.
why
If he could stay off the lottery machines he would not be homeless. God is good, and everyone thinks they are helping but they are only enabling
a church did something good
A church group did something good--that is what they do. For all the atheists posting here or are condemning God and churches and the people who attend them please tell me what organizations you belong to and what you have done for your fellow man.
Thank you VP.......
Wonderful story.......wonderful outcome!
Some of these hateful "posters" are the reason we can't say Merry Christmas or have a Christmas Tree anymore!
The article is ambiguously written...
"Hart's recent troubles began after he lost his apartment and a job supervising custodians in the Virginia Beach school system in 2007 after he was found sleeping in his office."
Unclear is whether he was fired for sleeping "on the job" and then lost his apartment because of the job loss or just sleeping in his office (during non-work hours) after losing his apartment. In the 1st case, getting him another job on the taxpayers dime seems questionable, in the second, OK.
Charity is a fine thing for the church with its resourses. It's not so noble when it's done with money extracted from taxpayers.
help?
What difference does it make whether the man lost his job and apartment first or last. It's gone. I do not remember anything in this article that stated taxpayers helped this man get a job. He got it on his own. He was a taxpayer then and a taxpayer now so what taxpayer dollars are helping this man. People are helping with the money they worked hard for no agency, grant money or social services helped this man with housing or the hotel room, or money to get his car fixed, genuine concerned citizens that you should learn a lesson from.
OH...
The point, which apparently eluded you was that if the man was sleeping while "on duty" (read "while being paid to work") he probably deserved to be discharged and his following difficulties were self-induced.... Apparently irrelevant to you but perhaps of interest to those who were/are paying for his services. As to whether "taxpayers helped this man get a job" who do you believe pays for the custodial services at the courthouse?
God sure did have a hand in
God sure did have a hand in this one. People from the church (i.e. the body of Christ) got together and helped the man out. God was in the man and God was in the helpers. Atheists do not understand what the body is and how it is part of God. And they will argue to ends earth defending that they are nothing more than a pile of atomic doo-doo. Imagine that, a bunch of atoms arguing that they are nothing but atoms.
Yeah the same god that
Yeah the same god that allows molesters to rape and murder innocent children. Where is that god then and dont give me this crap about he gave man the choice to do what he did, the child didnt have a choice to be raped and killed. That is not a god to worship, that is a god to condemn
So basically
what your saying is that it wasn't the people thinking for themselves that this man needed help but that they were made to do it because "god" told them to which implies that people cant think for themselves. Seriously when are people going to wake up and realize that the capacity to do good or bad or both is built into each person and it ultimately comes down to impart how that person was raised and in how they think and view the world that they act on either of these potential capacities.