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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Heat crashes over the Urban Farm in waves, pooling in the thick air above the 6 Stones parking lot before the uncertain breeze carries it across to the rows of organic crops. Hunched over the budding foliage, Charlotte Banks and her mixed class of Trinity High School students don’t bat an eye. As the school…

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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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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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