Text by Jason C Dukes, Church Multiplication Minister I sit in coffee shops a lot. Sometimes in meetings. Sometimes writing and creating and strategizing. Occasionally, I’m simply answering emails, all by myself. In those alone times, I don’t eavesdrop, but it’s impossible not to hear the conversations around me. If I had to boil down…

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Every year, I ask myself the same thing: “how can we tell the story of Community-Powered Revitalization again without re-telling it?” There’s only so many ways to show people painting a house before it all starts to feel familiar. But it’s important to me that everyone understands that CPR is anything but commonplace. In the…

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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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BEDFORD– Last week, almost 400 men and women from organizations all around North Texas gathered at Campus West, a face-lifted venue on Industrial Boulevard. Built by a church, maintained in partnership with a nonprofit and bordering a major highway as well as a community garden operated in part by the city itself, the setting could…

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