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Podcast: This Is Nashville
Episode: Remembering Charlie Strobel, Room In the Inn founder and homeless advocate
Description: Few people make the kind of impact on a city that Charlie Strobel did.
On a winter night in 1985, Father Strobel, then pastor at Holy Name Catholic Church in East Nashville, saw people gathered in the parking lot trying to endure the cold. He invited them inside, and gave them food and shelter for the night. From this, the program he called Room In the Inn began. And so did his dedication to serving people who are experiencing homelessness, which would never waver — even as Room In the Inn grew from an informal arrangement between churches into the...