What This 5-year-old Did When He Encountered a Homeless Man brought Diners to Tears

Jeremy Burns : May 20, 2015
Charisma News

"Watching my son touch the 11 people in that Waffle House tonight will be forever one of the greatest accomplishments as a parent I'll ever get to witness." -Ava Faulk

(Alabama)—A young Alabama boy's unbridled faith and desire to reach out to a homeless man made a difference in more ways than one. (Photo: Ava Faulk with her son, Josiah Duncan/WSFA 12 News)

Five-year-old Josiah Duncan was dining at a Waffle House with his mother, Ava Faulk, when he began to ask her questions about a homeless man he had seen outside.

After Faulk answered his questions, explaining, among other things, that the man didn't have a home, Josiah became distraught when he realized the man didn't have any food.

Determined to do something about the man's plight, the boy insisted that his mother buy the man a meal. Moved by her son's heartfelt plea, she agreed.

"He came in and sat down, and nobody really waited on him," Faulk explained in an email to WSFA News. "So Josiah jumped up and asked him if he needed a menu because you can't order without one." (Photo by Ava Faulk/via WSFA News)

Initially, the homeless man, who remains unidentified, was going to eat a cheeseburger, but when Faulk and Duncan told him he could have anything he wanted, he ordered the works.

"'Can I have bacon?'" Faulk remembered him asking. "And I told him get as much bacon you want."

But before the man could dig into his meal, Josiah insisted on blessing the food.

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