Hope for the Homeless and the Poor - HE FOUND LIFE'S PURPOSE

 Martin began to search for the meaning of life when he was 20 years old. "I investigated religions and philosophies and took drugs," he said, "hoping to fill the emptiness I felt within, but to no avail." He lived in California, U.S.A. for a while and then went to Hawaii. "I thought I had found paradise," he recalled. But beautiful scenery did not fill the void. "I became so overwhelmed with depression," he recalls, "that I even contemplated suicide." It was at that point in his life that we wept controllably and begged God, "If you exist, please help me to find you."

Martin remembered that earlier he had seen a sign that read Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses." He decided to go there to attend a Christian meeting. "I walked in with long and a beard, I had the clothes I had been wearing for months," he said. Nevertheless, I warmly welcomed." Martin accepted a Bible study and regularly walked from his "home" on the beach to the town square to have his Bible study there.  

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