“If I would see you out here beating up somebody I would have to get involved because I know what it was to get beat up like that. “One of the things all my life is, I always took up for the underdog,” Holloway says. Within every person who fills a plate, lands a job or kicks a habit, he sees the Lord beckoning. William Holloway, founder and chief executive officer of the sprawling Little Rock Compassion Center that dominates a full city block near the state fairgrounds.įrom his hardscrabble upbringing, through addiction and recovery, to his search for meaning through ministry, he says, the Almighty has systematically stepped in to provide gentle and not-so-subtle nudges along the path of life.Įven now, as the center hums about its daily mission of unbinding people from the toxic molecules of their lives that leave them homeless and often hopeless, God’s still talking to Holloway, through each of the hundreds of people the ministry serves. For nearly 80 years, God has had a way of keeping in touch with the Rev.
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