Trendsetters

WeHome by Erica Ciccarone

Jan 6, 201836:07Government & Organizations

Joe Bradford had already survived poverty, prison, and kidney disease when a little girl asked him to be her father. Now, "Papa" Joe runs a ministry called Elijah's Heart out of the community center in J.C. Napier Place...

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