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What will summer be like without the usual VBS, camps and youth mission trips?

Christian professionals and families partner to experiment with innovative approaches to youth formation in a socially distant environment.

By G. Jeffrey MacDonald Journalist and UCC minister

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Mother Emanuel five years later

In the national aftermath of recent racist violence, a church and a community continue the work of healing as they mark the five-year anniversary of the Charleston massacre.

By Stephanie Hunt Journalist

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Interfaith advocacy groups collaborate to help the nation's vulnerable

Partisan divides may mark politics in Washington, D.C., but faith-based lobbyists there find ways to work together for the greater good.

By Edie Gross Journalist

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A campus ministry opens a pay-as-you-can deli just as the pandemic hits

When the students at the Baptist Student Ministry in the Rio Grande Valley opened a deli near campus, they knew it was innovative. What they didn’t know was that their restaurant would become a vital source of meals for people in need.

By Elizabeth Le'anani Coffee Community engagement facilitator, H.E. Butt Foundation

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Proclaiming the liberation narrative of God through church art

A Chicago church has installed a trio of stained-glass windows to help its members reclaim their past, honor their present and look ahead to their future.

By Celeste Kennel-Shank Journalist

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Affordable housing rises where a church building once stood

After a period of discernment and community engagement, a congregation takes a risk and finds its way back home.

By Edie Gross Journalist

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'Business is the calling God has ordained for me to do'

John Gasangwa, an entrepreneur who grew up in a refugee camp, uses his business training to create jobs in remote western Rwanda. Arise Rwanda Ministries has developed the coffee trade as well as educational and microlending opportunities for people living in the region.

By Bruce Buursma Journalist

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How do you build trust between a community and its immigrants? Nonprofit uses four steps to turn strangers into neighbors

The Stranger to Neighbor model is at the heart of FaithAction International House’s work building community by helping U.S.-born residents connect with recently arrived immigrants.

By Camila Molina Journalist

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A North Carolina nonprofit helps churches convert property from liabilities into assets

Leaders of a community development corporation believe that even struggling congregations can survive and thrive if members take stock of their assets and put them to use as resources for their communities.

By Yonat Shimron Journalist

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A Texas congregation caring for immigrants gains a new understanding of Christianity as a 'trauma-healing movement'

For the past three years, members of a Mennonite church in San Antonio have welcomed people crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. The experience has changed them and their understanding of the gospel.

By Patton Dodd Journalist

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