Dave and Linda Lewis are exactly the kind of people you would expect them to be. One owns Rita’s Italian Ice, the other runs the preschool program at First United Methodist Church in Euless. The former is gregarious and excitable; the living embodiment of a sugar rush. The latter speaks in hushed, soothing tones as…

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It’s 7:00 am on a Saturday and the halls at Shady Brook Elementary hum with subdued energy. Teachers pop in and out of the shadowy hallway, working to set up their classrooms before the main campus lights are even flipped on. Shannon Gauntt, the principal, sits in the glow of her office window, checking emails…

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Text by Neil Cole, founder and executive director of Church Multiplication Associates & CMAResources. It used to be so easy to determine who was successful and who was not. Bigger was assumed to be better. I suggest that those days are quickly evaporating, and that standard never was an accurate metric of true success in the Kingdom…

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In the next few months, thousands of people will come to the New Hope Center in search of food and clothing. Loyal gardeners will battle the summer sun in our Urban Farm. And volunteer teams from local churches will continue with the most important, least publicized, most impactful work of all: follow-up. Our services are…

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We’ve been lied to. It’s unclear where the deception began. Somewhere along the line, though, we all started thinking that we couldn’t work together. Couldn’t serve side-by-side with people who were different from us. We separated. We segregated. As a people, as a nation, and as individuals, we stopped collaborating with anyone who wasn’t exactly…

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