All Saints Page #4

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your grandparents built.

How can you sit there chewing $30 steaks

and let our people starve?

MAN:
Um, let me remind

all of you that Thursday night

we'll have our fund-raising bake sale.

- Preacher.

- What?

You...

you sure didn't sugarcoat

things in there, did you?

Occupational hazard.

Lander Boyd, Boyd's Feed and Seed.

I'm an elder down at Riverview.

We've got a little job service program

for the... for the members,

and we just got in 24 jobs stripping chickens

at the Pardee Poultry plant in Murfreesboro.

Now, you all are welcome to 'em.

That's... that's mighty generous of you.

Well, I grew up in All Saints.

That was back before

I could afford $30 steaks.

What is that, 10... 10, 15 miles from here?

About 10 miles. Your folks got cars?

(ENGINE STARTS)

Hot dog!

Hey! We got wheels! (LAUGHS)

Wheels!

Thank you, Forrest.

Hey, what's your deal?

Why won't you let me thank you?

Save it.

All Saints has been helping poor people

since before you were peeing your diapers.

Fine. Forget it.

Hey, you know, Ruth left the church.

Why'd she do that?

No future in it.

All we've got left is memory.

Why haven't you left?

Maybe I ain't as strong as she is.

Hang on. Forrest, wait.

(HORN HONKING)

You ought to go take care of

what you come here for.

It's 19 from the ground.

What's it gonna be?

- Commercial space.

- Yeah, big box.

- Toilet paper by the ton, huh?

- (LAUGHTER)

Yeah.

It's bad positioning on the water.

We'll have to relay it from the street.

Hey, good news is, you might get to

spend next Sunday on a golf course.

We'd be out of here next week?

If we sign the papers,

knock all this down in August.

You know, some of our members,

they have a garden out back.

They can keep that going

until you guys bulldoze, right?

Well, yeah, that's gonna be a problem.

Insurance.

Well, they're refugees. They need

the extra food for their children.

We just have to haul all this away.

I mean, the garden's not much,

but it might provide the kids

with a regular breakfast this summer.

Reverend, we'd love to help, but...

We answer to a higher power, too.

All State.

Guys, we're not gonna let a technicality

stop us from feeding hungry kids, right?

(SIGHS) Reverend, this store is

gonna be good for everybody.

I mean, a year from now, there'll be dozens

of jobs that your people can apply for.

(MAN EXCLAIMING)

Look at these beams.

Nice little bonus check there, am I right?

Oh, look at that glass.

You know, I bet these...

These light fixtures are worth a ton alone.

- Yeah.

- We could sell a pew to somebody.

Well, if you want to, you can have those.

Hey, hey, hey, hey. No, no, no.

Come on. Let's go, get out.

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