Getting to and from his factory job 23 miles away in Rochester Hills, he\u2019ll take a bus partway there and partway home. And he\u2019ll also walk an astounding 21 miles. \u00a0<\/em>Five days a week. Monday through Friday. \u00a0<\/em>It\u2019s the life Robertson has led for the last decade, ever since his 1988 Honda Accord quit on him.<\/em><\/p>\n The article highlighted that despite his difficulties, he sets the standard for attendance at his workplace, according to his supervisors.<\/p>\n \u2026So, what gets him past dangerous streets, and through the cold and gloom of night and winter winds? \u00a0\u00a0<\/em>\u201cOne word \u2014 faith,\u201d Robertson says. \u201cI\u2019m not saying I\u2019m a member of some church. But just before I get home, every night, I say, \u2018Lord, keep me safe.\u2019 \u201c<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n See the full article at Detroit Free Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n This tenacity and drive got him national attention, including a feature as the ABC News \u201cperson of the week\u201d<\/a>. It is reported that a 19 year old college student named Evan Leedy saw his story and started an online fundraiser that eventually amassed $350,000 and a new Ford Taurus (See, for example, this follow up article<\/a> from CBS news).<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/body><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An\u00a0inspirational story came out in January about a Detroit man named James Robertson, who trudged miles to get to work every day: Getting to and from his factory job 23 miles away in Rochester Hills, he\u2019ll take a bus partway there and partway home. And he\u2019ll also walk an astounding 21 miles. \u00a0Five days a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[92,93,91],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspirational-stories","tag-detroit","tag-evan-leedy","tag-james-robertson"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions\/155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}