Pastor serving the ‘least of these’ in places ‘nobody wants to go’ answers God’s call

December 3, 2024

A Southern California Baptist Church pastor says she took her ministry to the streets and homeless encampments so she could fulfill a Divine call to “serve the least of these.”

The Christian Post reports that Kathy Huck spent two years serving as a pastor at Second Missionary Baptist Church in Simi Valley before launching her homeless outreach ministry About My Father’s Business (AMFB).

Huck says she felt God’s call while volunteering with a group of friends to distribute resources to the homeless, telling the Christian Post, “I’ll never forget it. I was standing on Topanga and Nordhoff, two streets in the San Fernando Valley. And the Lord just said, ‘Pastor Huck, your ministry starts here.'”

AMFB provides resources to individuals living on the street, including tents, clothing and food and spends roughly $3,000 a month carrying out its mission.

According to the Christian Post, the ministry is staffed primarily by a team of 20 volunteers and partners with other organizations such as the Hollywood Food Coalition.

Huck emphasizes that AMFB strives to build trust with the people they serve and to treat them with dignity, saying, “I love what I do because I think it’s the bottom rung; it’s the basement. It’s the place nobody wants to go. I call us the janitors. Nobody wants to be where we are, but it is ground zero because you can’t understand what people need until you understand who they are, where they are, how they live.” 

Photo: top, Credit: About My Father’s Business