Hayward Bass insists it wasn’t his idea.
Once the senior pastor of Shady Grove Baptist Church, he retired five years ago, but agreed to stay on part-time at the request of his successor.
The church’s homeless ministry started with an outside group who, seeing the large homeless population along Bells Ferry Road in north Marietta, wanted to use Shady Grove’s kitchen to feed them, Bass said. Then other churches and organizations started calling, asking to lend a hand…