It’s hard to imagine a more unassuming City Hall than the simple rectangular brick building in Everman. Mayor Ray Richardson is ready and waiting in the lightly appointed entryway when I arrive. Craig Spencer, the city’s Director of Emergency Services, follows right on his heels. Both men have agreed to give a driving tour of…

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The Southern Baptist Convention is in town. Over the weekend, churches from across America came to North Texas for Harvest America. Men and women from California, Ohio, and Missouri teamed up with local churches to launch Community-Powered Revitalization (CPR) in Arlington and Everman. As a result of the partnership, 135 volunteers transformed 5 homes. Everman…

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It’s amazing. No matter how many times we put on a Community Powered Revitalization (CPR) event, you never hear the same story twice. Sure, there are common threads. Veterans. Single moms. Survivors. But the details make every homeowner different. That’s the beauty of CPR. There’s a person behind every hammer and every nail. In the…

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Aside from the rainbow-colored devices behind her ears, you’d never know that there is anything different about Ruth’s daughter. I watch for a while as she reviews vocabulary cards with her mother, sounding out syllables as she traces each word with her fingers. She might have been born deaf, but she runs and plays, giggles…

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Text by Jonathan Hollon, Volunteer I have worked on a number of houses for 6 Stones through the Community-Powered Revitalization (CPR) program. I don’t really remember dates or seasons, but I do remember the houses and I do remember the people. The first was in Bedford. The homeowner ’s daughter and granddaughter lived with her…

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