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How church volunteers are preparing for the next natural disaster

Wyatt Massey

August 27, 2019 |

Chattanooga Times Free Press |

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Response Location: United States, Decatur, Alabama

Rather than wait for disaster to strike, a network of churches across the Southern United States brings volunteers together to pack buckets with the essentials to prepare for families whose homes have been damaged by tornadoes or hurricanes. Though often the supplies run thin in the aftermath of a storm like Hurricane Florence, the church communities manage to get buckets out to those in need much quicker than other networks, who struggle to gather supplies after the storm has hit.

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Overcoming the stigma of divorce at a church

Wyatt Massey

August 16, 2019 |

Chattanooga Times Free Press |

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Response Location: United States, Chattanooga, Tennessee

For many experiencing divorce, a safe place to deal with frustrations and stigma is important. In Chattanooga, Tennessee, religious institutions are stepping in to provide support groups and classes like DivorceCare, which can focus on children, single parenting education, and grief sharing.

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How Chattanooga churches are making changes to go green

Wyatt Massey

July 22, 2019 |

Chattanooga Times Free Press |

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Response Location: United States, Chattanooga, Tennessee

Churches in Chattanooga, TN are taking steps to make their spaces more environmentally -friendly and -conscious. Places like St. Paul’s Episcopal Church and Grace Episcopal Church are taking on initiatives like motion-detected lighting systems, upgrading faucets to curb usage, and creating raised beds for community gardening. While they’ve made great strides, they’ve also reckoned with the challenge of creating making such unique spaces, with its high ceilings and stained-glass windows, more green.

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Finding refuge in north Flint: This sanctuary for women is building futures by mending spirits

Alexandria Brown

July 17, 2019 |

Flintside |

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Response Location: United States, Flint, Michigan

In Flint, Michigan, the N.E.W. in St. Luke’s N.E.W. Life Center provides education, employment training, and emotional support to women and some men who live in the "throw away zone," a term coined to describe the impoverished areas of Flint’s north and east sides and beyond the city limits into Beecher.

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These Millennials Got New Roommates. They're Nuns.

Nellie Bowles

May 31, 2019 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United States, Burlingame, California

For millennials looking to gain a stronger sense of commitment to social justice and service work, religious traditions can provide a helpful framework. The Nuns and Nones program in Burlingame, California, places young participants into convents. In exchange for low-income housing, the young people help provide care and company for the aging sisters, while also drawing lessons from their participation in—and devotion to—service work.

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Sisters support Nigeria's migrants traumatized by trafficking

Patrick Egwu

May 30, 2019 |

Global Sisters Report |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Benin City

Nigeria’s Committee for the Support of Dignity of Women has helped hundreds of human trafficking victims with temporary shelter, economic aid, and reconciliation with their families. The faith-based program visits schools to warn youth of the dangers of trafficking if they migrate to other countries to flee Nigeria’s poverty. For those who have fallen prey to traffickers and returned home, the program gives them the support they need, including the means to start their own businesses, so that they can again live sustainably and safely in their homeland.

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"A sense of belonging" for Latinxs in recovery at the West Kensington Ministry

Diana Cristancho

May 28, 2019 |

Temple University |

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Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

For members of the Latinx community seeking treatment for substance abuse, much needed resources, like Spanish-speaking counselors, can be hard to come by at recovery centers. In Philadelphia, faith-based organizations like West Kensington Ministry are filling the gaps by providing peer and community support.

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From Fatal Shots to Farm Plots: These Guns Are Given New Meaning

Monica Humphries

April 23, 2019 |

NationSwell |

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Response Location: United States

For people wanting to dispose of their firearms, RAWtools offers a unique opportunity. Understanding that the process can be challenging and emotional, they recycle weapons into gardening tools through their Swords to Plowshares initiative. By offering this, the faith-based organization seeks to shift the narrative around gun ownership and find new ways to address conflict.

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Young Life at the Border

Bekah McNeel

April 22, 2019 |

Christianity Today |

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Response Location: United States, El Paso, Texas

For undocumented youth who commute between El Paso, Texas and Juárez, Mexico for school, finding a community to connect with and feel safe in is especially challenging. The Christian youth organization Young Life is there to fill that gap in immigrant students' lives by offering emotional and spiritual guidance as well as a support system that deals with any and all issues that arise, whether citizenship-related or not. The group has mentored hundreds of high school students whose lives straddle the border over the years, and many of those credit the group with helping them make sense of their "messy" lives.

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When public restrooms fail, rent them out as churches?

Anthony Langat

February 14, 2019 |

Devex |

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Response Location: Kenya, Kibera, Nairobi

On World Toilet Day in 2014, the Kenyan government promised to build 180 public toilets in an ambitious move to combat the issue of public sanitation. The program went well once the keys were handed off to the National Youth Service of Kenya as a means of income, but issues quickly arose that could not be resolved because of a lack of further funds. The youth has since transformed their toilets into a rental space for local churches, such as Christ Miracle Church for All Nations in Laini Saba.

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