A mystery benefactor who helped 150 area families with $100 cash donations through the holiday season last year will take up his cause again this year, and is looking for others to join him.
Harvey Miller, who served as senior pastor at Antioch Fellowship Church for 17 years, told the Democrat on Thursday that the man, whom he described simply as “a successful area businessman,” contacted him last September looking to help needy families through the holiday season.
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