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There is a godly remedy to the kind of marital tragedies caused by spousal infidelity we’ve been reading so much about lately – The Junebug Café.

The first Saturday of every month at 5 p.m., Michael Lewis, pastor of Redeeming Hearts Outreach Center, transforms.

The ordinarily ‘Dapper Dan’ shuns his domestic gear for a yellow hat, orange mosaic vest, and a multi-colored turquoise tie. His normal, well-spaced smile sports a wide gap, and on his affect-free face hangs taped-together eye glasses that look like they could have been made from Coke-bottles.

Workers in Venice, La., help clean up the oil spill. A UMNS Web only photo by Tracy Johnson.

Not long ago, Freddie Redmond was homeless, living in the streets of Atlanta. Now he spends his days on a beach in Mississippi, part of a team that will be cleaning up after the recent oil spill.

And he’s praising God for his new career.

Redmond is one of 75 low-income workers trained in hazardous waste removal by programs at two United Methodist-related historically black colleges.