[Anderson turned his life around at the San Diego Rescue Mission, where he kicked cocaine, became a Christian and rose to become the mission's interim director in the early 1990s. In 2000, he took over the Richmond mission.] When I was a successful businessman in Florida, I had no tolerance for homeless people. I could have been Scrooge, ... Now, the people I had no tolerance for, the people I thought would be better off dead, are the people I serve and love. John Anderson