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in Skid Row, a middle aged Korean guy

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stands on the street corner. Pastor Tim

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Park is tall, 61 with

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a big smile and a dark tan from being

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outside all the time. He waves

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people towards his church, a white tent

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with folding chairs. Yes,

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they'll be prayer, but perhaps the biggest draw

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is the food. It was prepared at the Korean

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Make a church where Park works Downtown Glory

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Church of Jesus Christ. That's where I find

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him hours earlier, making 100 20

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sandwiches in the kitchen with volunteers

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like Hyun Suk, Lee Wei,

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My own race. And then we

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put the know

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him. Lee, who's

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retired from running a liquor store, spend

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$70 each week to buy the sandwich

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supplies. Just tell me

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that you can help homeless people, so

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I'm just following this order next

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to her 78 year old young school, Whoa! Expertly

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wraps the sandwiches and yellow paper. She

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says she feels deeply for homeless

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people. Yet both

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women still believe a city plan to

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put a shelter in Koreatown was wrong

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will join some of the protests last

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summer that helped to kill the plan. She

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doesn't think a shelter belonged in such a busy

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part of the neighborhood. We agrees

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a lot of people around there

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so that its alleged

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in the area park withholds

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judgment. Homelessness is extremely rare

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among Koreans, so it's not well understood.

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So many people have a good heart, but

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they don't know howto there with the homeless people.

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That's why so many people, they just avoid

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them or they just keep them a food and they

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run away.

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Park says he sees homelessness differently

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because growing up in Korea, his parents

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ran an orphanage. Homeless people reminded

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him of the orphans who became his friends.

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These people have no power to

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raise their voice. Right

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before he was a pastor, Park ran

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a termite control company. Then, at age

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36 he says, God spoke to him in a vision.

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He went to seminary and got hired a glory

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church of Jesus Christ. It was a few

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years in 2012 when the

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senior pastor wanted someone to minister

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to the homeless people camped right outside

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their church.

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All the other pastors, they shut their

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mouths and they don't say anything

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because they are afraid, right?

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Parked, raised his hand and so began

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a homeless ministry that has grown to include weekly

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service is at MacArthur Park in Eagle

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Rock. He's one of the most recognized

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preachers on Skid Row, but when

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it comes to Koreatown and putting a shelter

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there, he too, spoke against

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it.

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I'm past the Timothy Park. I'm also

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a missionary for homeless people Los

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Angeles.

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Here he is at City Hall.

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We have to come up with some ideas

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that we can have Ah, women situation.

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Both benefit for the homeless people

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and to the community people,

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Park says. The Koreans, he knows, need

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more time to get used to living

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by a shelter.

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They're not educated. That's why my mission

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is that I need to train

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the Korean community, people who

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the homeless people are on how

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to live together.

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Park says he visits different Korean churches

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to talk about his homeless ministry. He does

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this on the radio to with his own program

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on a Korean Christian station. His

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big dream is that his own church will one

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day open its doors to homeless people, but

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until then he has no choice but

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to go to them. During

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his service on Skid row, part challenges

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someone to come up and recite the 10 Commandments.

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David Sanchez takes the mic and does

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pretty well. You shall not

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covet your neighbor's house. It's

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been six months since Sanchez, a former

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trucker, first came to Parks Ministry.

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I really like Private Park is really genuine.

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Other than the ministry and meals he can get on Skid

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Row, Sanchez stays away. He

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feels safer sleeping on cross town buses

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on a ride. A few months ago, he stopped

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off in Koreatown, and who

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should he bump into? But Pastor Tim and

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I have been have food stamps, and

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I said, Oh, you know, let me buy you a hamburger

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Sanchez says that was the best feeling

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being able to break bread with

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his pastor. I'm Josie Wong.