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It was a course that nobody had yet taken and one that people even warned him against; but he was to cut his own path in the wilderness or as he calls it, ‘the road less trav-eled.’ He believed that God could make a way where there was no way; that with God anything was possible and that people and places weren’t hopeless, they just didn’t have any hope. In 1980 he moved to Bushwick, Brooklyn, which at the time was one of the poorest, most dangerous drug and gang infested neighborhoods in all of America. Those brave steps forward cost him dearly, yet none of the violence, disappointments or struggles through the years deterred him; he was locked in and committed to the climb. Unrelenting, he pressed forward, as pioneers always do. And a pathway through the wilderness was carved and history was made. Minist ry 1996 - OPERATION HOLIDAY HOPE BEGINS. 1997 - SUMMER CAMP STARTS IN NYC. 2000 - METRO PHILIPPINES OPENS. 2003 - PASTOR BILL SHOT IN ROBBERY. 2005 - METRO SOUTH AFRICA OPENS. NOW EXPANDED TO UGANDA. 2008 - METRO ROMANIA OPENS. 2009 - WARM FEET PROJECT STARTS IN ROMANIA. 2012 - METRO KENYA OPENS. 2012 - FEEDING PROGRAMS & WATER TANKS IN KENYA. 2012 - METRO INDIA OPENS. 2013 - METRO MINISTRIES CHANGES TO METRO WORLD CHILD. 2013 - METRO INDONESIA OPENS. 2014 - METRO HAITI OPENS. 2015 - METRO PERU OPENS. 2015 - METRO GERMANY OPENS. 2015 - SUMMER CAMP STARTS IN THE PHILIPPINES & KENYA. 2017 - METRO COLOMBIA OPENS. 2017 - PASTOR BILL SHOT IN SYRIA. 2018 - MARKS 50 YEARS IN FULL-TIME MINISTRY. Solutions • 37