(AP) -- DETROIT - The Rev. Henry Covington, who set aside years of drug abuse and lawbreaking to serve God and the homeless at a decaying church in Detroit, has died. He was 53.
Detroit Free Press columnist Mitch Albom says Covington died Tuesday in New York City, where he was visiting after appearing with Albom a day earlier on NBC's "Today" show.
Albom was with Covington's family on Wednesday evening and says a cause of death hadn't been determined.
Covington was one of the people that Albom wrote about in his 2009 book "Have a Little Faith."
Covington was senior pastor of I Am My Brother's Keeper Ministries. His funeral is 11 a.m. Tuesday at Covington's Pilgrim Church. Viewing is Monday from 5 p.m. until 10 p.m.
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