Life at New Life Evangelistic Center

Reverend Larry Rice, right, chats with Tom Branham, who came through Rice's career television training program at New Life Evangelistic Center in St. Louis. Branham has now been working with Channel 24 KNLC for 13 years. (Kit Doyle)

Over 100 emergency shelter beds are available for men on the fifth floor of the New Life Evangelistic Center in St. Louis. (Kit Doyle)

Samie Labon restocks digital converter boxes being given away Tuesday, May 19, 2009, at New Life Evangelistic Center in St. Louis. Labon, who is the head of security for the shelter, is in a two-year-program and has a single room at the facility, where he has been since December 2008. (Kit Doyle)

Tom Branham edits video for Channel 24 KNLC Tuesday, May 19, 2009, at New Life Evangelistic Center in St. Louis. Branham, who came through a job training course, has been with KNLC for 13 years. (Kit Doyle)

Larry Rice waits for dinner Tuesday, May 19, 2009, at New Life Evangelistic Center in St. Louis. (Kit Doyle)

Larry and Deborah Rice eat dinner on the women and childen's floor of the New Life Evangelistic Center Tuesday, May 19, 2009, in St. Louis. (Kit Doyle)

Harriet Davis, right, receives a free digital converter box Tuesday, May 19, 2009, at New Life Evangestic Center in St. Louis. Michelle Hayes, left, and Renetta Taylor are both in the facility's 90-day-program. (Kit Doyle)

Reverend Larry Rice welcomes women and children to a hot dinner Tuesday, May 19, 2009, at New Life Evangeslistic Center in Cape Girardeau. (Kit Doyle)

Bill Siedhoff in St. Louis. (Kit Doyle)

People wait in line for digital converter boxes being given out Tuesday, May 19, 2009, at New Life Evangelical Center in downtown St. Louis. (Kit Doyle)

Reverend Larry Rice at the New Life Evangelistic Center in St. Louis. (Kit Doyle)

Andy Martello in St. Louis, where he is a neighbor of New Life Evangelistic Center downtown. (Kit Doyle)

The back of New Life Evangelistic Center in downtown St. Louis on Locust St. (Kit Doyle)

Roger Wood, right, sits in Locust Park Tuesday, May 19, 2009, in downtown St. Louis. Wood stays at a variety of shelters in St. Louis, including New Life Evangelistic Center. Some local residents claim that homeless people overrun the park, which is next to NLEC. (Kit Doyle)