Church Mobilization
Catalyst of Hope Forum Gathers Community Leaders to Shine a Light
BEDFORD — Campus West hums with conversation as nearly 400 men and women sit down to lunch. The crowd is a mixture of City Officials, School District Representatives, Pastors, Small Business Owners, Nonprofit Employees, and Corporate Shot-Callers. CEOs rub elbows with volunteers who live below the federal poverty line. It’s an eclectic group; the kind…
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Cultivate: Community Through Celebration
The Community Garden thrums with life, murmuring in the morning light as enthusiastic Tarrant County kids dash from one thrilling sight to another. The aroma of barbeque and sugar hangs thicker than the humid air on this patch of vibrant green grass tucked away behind a line of trees on Industrial Boulevard. Another brutal Texas summer…
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The Workers Are Few
BEDFORD — The skies have opened over Texas in the final weeks of May, but that hasn’t stopped Harvest Christian Academy from pouring out into the community. Dozens of students hurry across the beaten stones and water-weary grass of the 6 Stones Community Garden, wheelbarrows loaded high with mulch and rake-wielding peers in tow. Their…
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New Hope Baptist Church Spends Spring Break on Mission with 6 Stones
BEDFORD — It’s the first true day of spring break, and something is very wrong. A collection of middle school students from New Hope Baptist Church in Austin, Texas have trekked north for their vacation. But they’re doing anything but rest. While other youth groups are having lock-ins and hitting the slopes of distant mountains…
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The Real Magic of Christmas
If there’s one thing we malign at Christmas time, it’s the busy-bodied lack of focus that comes with the thousands of commitments we seem to make as soon as the Thanksgiving Turkey is wrapped in foil and dropped, without ceremony, into the fridge. From that moment until the serenity of Christmas morning, it’s all about to-do…
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