Pastor Fights Health Woes To Feed Needy

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Pastor Fights Health Woes To Feed Needy
Rev. Joe Romero Says Food Requests Have Surged

POSTED: 5:56 pm MST November 26, 2009
UPDATED: 6:06 pm MST November 26, 2009

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- An Albuquerque pastor going through kidney dialysis is pushing through his own problems to provide food for his community.

To those who don't know him, he's The Rev. Joe Romero, but to the people he serves--- he's a saint.

“What's your name?” asked Romero.

“Mary,” the woman said.

“God bless you, Mary,” Romero said.

The people he feeds line up around the block at Romero's Church of Philadelphia, waiting to get their food box for the week.

"We were giving food before but not to this degree," Romero said.

The church distributes 200 food boxes filled with meat, fruits and sweets several times a week. Romero said they've received more applications for the food boxes since the economy tanked.

While volunteers assemble the food packages at the church, Romero gets hooked up to his dialysis machine.

"I'm on dialysis, but that don't hold me back," he said. "That's going forward."

He said he's been pushing through his health problems for the past two years so that others who are without food may eat. He said he calls it leading his flock by example.

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[Jean]

Good for him. Glad he has the energy to do that for others.