Alan Graham

It's the reality of the whole world that we live in, in a microcosm there at the Community First Village.

Well, that's right.

Look, we go everywhere every day all the time, and we're safe.

We live a great life.

But that guy over there, like... Well, this is what we have to... You know, when you look at the purpose of Mobile Loaves and Fishes, our vision statement, the thing that drives our organization is that we...

empower communities into a lifestyle of service with the homeless, not to and for, with the homeless.

This metaphorically is the same thing as pulling over and helping the guy change the flat tire.

There's a guy on your street corner and up underneath that bridge that you pass every day.

Can we pull over and help them change that flat tire?

That's what this is all about because the government – we have to quit yelling at the mayor and the city council to go and fix this problem.

This is what we do.

Right.

Okay?

We need government to come alongside of us to do this, but look, this is a human issue and the government is not coming into your bedroom tonight to tuck you in.

You know, we need a human-to-human, heart-to-heart connection between people who are broken and battered and come from a trauma background that you and I – I mean a battlefield background that you and I can't even begin to understand.

Did you see where Gavin Newsom issued an executive order today to clear all the camps in California?

Well, we don't know, but it comes out of that.

Well, you know, it's a political move for sure, but it's related to that Supreme Court ruling, the Grant Pass v. Johnson ruling that the Supreme Court just did.

And so it's an interesting byproduct now of what we're going to witness next.

You know, what was interesting is I had a woman that worked for us a few years ago, and she was a Ph.D., English, classic, very, very smart, learned person.