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Have a Little Faith: A True Story

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2009

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Part 3, Chapter 32 Summary: “Church”

At home in Detroit, inspired in part by his visits with the Reb, Albom decides to create a charity for people without homes. He visits various local shelters to decide whether to offer them financial support.

Albom pays one such visit to the I Am My Brother’s Keeper Ministry run by Pastor Henry Covington. Arriving at the large, dilapidated Gothic church building, he is caught off guard by Henry’s “extremely large” appearance.

Part 3, Chapter 33 Summary: “From a Sermon by the Reb, 1981”

In an excerpt from one of the Reb’s sermons, a small girl at an airport whose family is moving leans on her belongings. A woman expresses her sympathy, assuming that the girl does not have a home. The girl retorts, “But we do have a home […]. We just don’t have a house to put it in” (110).

Part 3, Chapter 34 Summary: “September: What Is Rich?”

The doctors decide it would be too risky to remove the Reb’s tumor from his lung, so he returns home. During a visit three years after the diagnosis, the Reb shows off his new walker to Albom.

Albom reflects on the Reb’s humble lifestyle. The Reb grew up in a poor family. When his father gave him a new suit for his Bar Mitzvah, he was embarrassed to learn that it was handed down from rich relatives.

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