‘To be a light in darkness'
Old building is now a refuge

 
By Carla Hinton
Published: April 6, 2008

A downtown Oklahoma City building adjacent to City Rescue Mission has been transformed from a crack house to a church house.

The bustling effort to repurpose a squalid apartment building at 823 W California was started a year ago by the new owner, who bought it without realizing it was a notorious haven for criminal activity.

As Californian Tim Ulrich painted the walls of the dilapidated building, a prostitu...


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