As Southern California’s housing crisis continues to fuel homelessness across the region, a number of churches, particularly Black congregations, are stepping up to build affordable housing on their church land.
Even in a pandemic, a faith-based nonprofit provides emergency help, hands-on training and necessities to South Carolina’s homeless.
The Dream Center, which was recognized in WORLD’s 2020 Hope Awards, was launched in 2012 by a team of seven volunteers, middle-aged men and women in the Greenville, S.C., area who wanted to tangibly live ...
Today, more than 300 missions are part of Citygate Network (formerly Association of Gospel Rescue Missions), which is based in Colorado Springs, Colo. John Ashmen, Citygate’s president, says one of the country’s best missions can ...
City’s official coronavirus policies tend to incentivize destructive behavior
Tensions continue to rise in San Francisco, where the COVID-19 pandemic has exasperated the challenges of an already overflowing homeless population. While Christian ministries struggle to serve the community, city officials scramble to come up ...
Like a rough piece of wood that needs sanding before it can be used in a piece of furniture, lives are being transformed through Purposeful Design, a not-so ordinary carpentry shop in Indianapolis. While ...
James Whitford has seen the growth and struggles that come with helping the poor escape the endless cycle of poverty, addiction and incarceration. For 20 years, Whitford and his wife, Marsha – who both founded the non-profit Watered Gardens Ministries, in Joplin, Missouri – have helped equip those entangled in that struggle to escape through finding a ...
