"The thing we try to emphasize is building relationships based on trust and loyalty," says Daniel R. Bryan '02, who leads FAST this year along with Chang and Julie L. Rattey '02.
One such relationship Bryan has developed is with a man whom he went to visit in jail in February of last year.
"It was truly an amazing experience for me," Bryan says. "Now [he] and I have some kind of bond."
When Bryan saw the man again after his release from jail in December, the man was very excited.
"[Those] Christian boys came to visit me in jail. They were the only ones who visited me," the man said.
FAST is fundamentally a Christian program, though its members may not mention religion in every encounter with the homeless.
The program is run through Harvard-Radcliffe Asian American Christian Fellowship (AACF), though many of its members are not part of AACF.
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