From making a great living in a satisfying job to struggling to survive in the wake of COVID, Malcolm is grateful for the opportunity he found here to start over: “LifePath, it did what I needed it to do for me!”
A hardworking local man, Malcolm says, “I have a couple degrees—and a job to cook: I’m a chef by trade, been doing it for 30 years . . .
“When COVID hit, it wiped out everything. The food business? It just demolished it.
“I said to myself, ‘Wow, I’ve got to start all over again.’ So, I started going to warehouses and being a machine operator and so forth. They’d hire for a while, then lay you off.
“Or you’d come to these agencies, and they would hire you for a while then lay you off,” he shares, recalling how the long, grueling months with no sense of hope, no chance of a future, left him feeling “tired, you know? Just one job to another—a constant struggle,” he sighs.
But at his lowest point, he found his way to LifePath—and the will to start over again, vowing “to keep fighting, get up, dust myself off, you know what I mean? I woke up!”
“LifePath’s done a great deal for me:
allowing me to have somewhere to sleep without
being on the street . . . a place to wash my clothes,
shower, and clean myself up.”
And by God’s grace, Malcolm also began rebuilding his life in our care, starting with the meals, help, and hope he found here, thanks to new friends like you . . .
“Everything was in place,” he says—recalling how he marveled at his newfound blessings . . . ‘Was this planned by God?’ Because everything I needed, I got to have!”
And today? “I want to go out and see what the world has to offer. That’s what I’m about. I’m about changing—life change.”
And Malcolm understands from the direction he has experienced here that, “It starts with me first: I want to stop the chain of coming here, coming to these places, coming to these spaces.”
Malcolm shares his gratitude with hearts like yours who make this ministry possible for neighbors in need across York County: “LifePath, it did what I needed it to do for me!” Thank you!
