In Camden's Tent City Wednesday, the homeless were cleaning house, gathering scant belongings and preparing to leave, at long last.
"People are excited, they're going to have an opportunity to have a house," resident James Ludey.
Amir and Micah Khan, father and son, pastor and his partner are those residents are thanking for the help. Micah was inspired to film this unlikely, unfortunate community. He showed the video to his father last Friday.
Amir, moved to tears by what he saw, took the story to his congregation.
"Sunday, I went before the church and I talked about how the scriptures talk about, if we shut our ears to the poor and God, basically, shuts his ears to us," Amir said.
And that congregation, Solid Rock Worship Center in Clementon, opened its ears and wallets. Congregants raised $25,000 in minutes. Days later, with their donations, it became $250,000, which is enough to put Tent City's 50 some residents under actual roofs for a year.
On Thursday morning, the homeless here will board busses bound for a hotel, a day of pampering, then treatment, and training and an actual home.
Organizers say they will leave just one tent standing in memory of Rex, a resident who lost hope several weeks ago and took his own life. They say the tent will stand to show that there is hope and there is help.
