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Eric Pellini looks at Victory Outreach’s attempt to get drug users off the streets in Kensington.
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I can tell you spent a lot of time on this story and it shows. The entire piece reminded me of something you would see on the New York Times website. This story makes me wish I wasn’t working with the Historical Society. Great job Eric.
I attend that church and that is so alsome and that topic you guys talking about its called the mens home that program is so good and many of our pastors in victory outreach was apart of that program and look at them now have their own businesses and have family’s their lifes has really changed from that program so be encourage to tell people that are homeless or drug addicts to be part of that program really life changing god bless
Victory Outreach North Philadelphia is an amazing church where lives are being transformed on a daily basis!