Joshua Lopez-Padilla, pastor of the Blythe Central Seventh-day Adventist Church, and his parishioners are doing what they can to help some of the more than 100 unhoused people living locally. “Lopez-Padilla, 28, and volunteers from his congregation have been driving the streets—passing out food and water, sometimes ferrying people to an air-conditioned church,” write Ruben Vives and Akiya Dillon for the Los Angeles Times.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://spectrummagazine.org/news/2023/california-desert-adventists-shelter-unhoused-scorching-heat-and-more-news