The Rev. Rick Cole of Capital Christian Center rode light rail back to his Rosemont megachurch Saturday and delivered a sermon based on his experiences living on Sacramento streets for two weeks to raise money for the area’s winter shelter program.
He arrived ready to preach at the church’s Saturday evening service still wearing the dark hooded sweatshirt, black baseball cap and jeans he’d had on for days. He smelled ripe. His face was covered in scraggly stubble. And he struggled to keep his emotions in check as the tension and exhaustion of two weeks sleeping in an alley, and wondering where his next meal would come from, drained away.
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