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Creativity and trust are hallmarks of a robust effort by churches and their partners to provide vaccinations in communities of color
Four churches in New York City delivered more than 30,000 vaccinations to people in their neighborhoods by sponsoring clinics, listening to people’s concerns and sharing their stories.
Link to author Genine Babakian
By Genine Babakian
Journalist
Incubator for discipleship
Rather than investing in a single, institutionally driven project, an Austin church is inviting parishioners to come up with innovative ways to serve their city — and providing initial funding.
Link to author Edie Gross
By Edie Gross
Journalist
Welcoming the stranger: A church ministry blossoms into a nonprofit that walks with refugees
Almost 30 years after beginning its ministry to those who’ve fled their home countries, a San Diego church has seen its community strengthened by shared leadership and a willingness to adapt.
Link to author Kate Morrissey
By Kate Morrissey
Journalist
Robert Rueda: Students in the Rio Grande Valley are ‘an incredible gift to the United States’
Campus minister Robert Rueda inspires students with his message that their experience prepares them to be leaders. Then they get to work.
When the pandemic closed schools, an existing network of congregations and others jumped in to offer meals — and more
Churches, government agencies and nonprofits that already served struggling families responded to the pandemic by ramping up their shared mission beyond providing children with summer meals.
Link to author Dan Holly
By Dan Holly
Journalist
Twenty years after 9/11, was all of this for nothing?
Even though so much seems lost, hope’s birth is possible, writes a military chaplain who served in Afghanistan.
Link to author Mel Baars O'Malley
By Mel Baars O'Malley
U.S. Army chaplain
The Gallatin hotel as an economic engine for ministry
A real estate developer who has transformed Nashville churches into boutique hotels has created the Rooms for Rooms program, which donates a portion of hotel profits to organizations working with people experiencing homelessness.
Link to author Fiona Soltes
By Fiona Soltes
Journalist
Keith Wasserman and Christine D. Pohl: How hospitality and faithful discipleship make for good work
For 40 years, Good Works has served people living in poverty in southeastern Ohio with respect and dignity. In a new book, founder Keith Wasserman and ethicist Christine D. Pohl explore what makes this ministry an authentic expression of Christian life and discipleship.
Darla Deardorff: Grassroots peacemaking can begin with sharing stories
How we tell our stories and how we listen to others can help us see beyond differences, according to an expert in international education and intercultural competencies.
Evangelism and the Spirit at Pentecost
In his contribution to a new book on evangelism with immigrant communities, the director of the Bethlehem Institute of Peace and Justice writes that Christians should look to the Holy Spirit rather than pressure or power in their witness to others.
Link to author Andrew F. Bush
By Andrew F. Bush
Director, Bethlehem Institute of Peace and Justice
