Author

Fiona Soltes

Journalist

Fiona Soltes lives outside Nashville, Tenn. She has been a professional writer for more than two decades, and her work includes newspaper and magazine articles, books, Christian resource materials, corporate histories and arts coverage.

The greatest gift

By Fiona Soltes Journalist

For 18 years, the Sixty-First Avenue United Methodist Church in west Nashville has operated the Last Minute Toy Store, a powerful sign of this small congregation’s incarnational presence in the world.

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