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Initially, York worked out of the basement of Cody's Bookstore on Telegraph Avenue. The First Presbyterian Church provided York and family a house at 2427 Haste Street. The house quickly became the physical location for the ministry that involved establishing a switchboard and providing emergency services. The house was filled with people. His wife Joy relates that it could take her hours to walk from the front of the house to the kitchen and then find no food. One note from York's journal reads: "Lord, it's 10am - the phone is ringing and it is time to get up. We didn't get to bed until 6. Why so early Lord? Downstairs is already full of people--the thirty kids who crashed on our floor last night and the thirty more who have just come in . There's nothing to eat Lord--too many to feed. Our children are awake--but they have no home. Give us strength Lord to do it again today. Help us to love the persons and not relate to them as the mob who have invaded us. They have no bed, no house, no food--just the street!. Help us to share without resentment--for we have all this and more."
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