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Christian "charity" really slumlords

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According to their website, Global Ministries Fellowship PAC "exists for the purpose of providing affordable housing for low to moderate income residents around the country." The express purpose of their housing ministry is "not only to provide safe, decent, and sanitary housing,"

Seventy-year-old resident John laughs at the idea. "This is Tanzania back here," he says, waving broadly towards the litter-strewn courtyard and wildly overgrown hedges. "Just yesterday we killed a snake outside our door.

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Anyone walking through Goodwill Village hopes GMF takes better care of the residents spiritually than they do physically. Drifts of garbage stand next to dumpsters overflowing with every manner of refuse rotting in the 95-degree heat. Young men sit on coolers and stacked pallets playing dominos in the shade of water oaks. It is cooler outside than inside, where the air conditioning has yet to be repaired. Other units have box fans crammed into the windows surrounded by blankets and duct taped into place to at least circulate the hot air inside.

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Even worse for Elma and Miracle is their kitchen sink, which lies gutted and stacked in their front room between their goldfish aquarium and television. Two months ago, when a gas leak was reported, management for Global Ministries Fellowship tore out Elma's sink and disconnected her stove and hot water heater, leaving her home a disaster and a huge hole in her wall. No one has been back since.