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Together We Rise: Flattening the Curve of Inequity

This video features stories about leveraging local assets and resources to create a future of equity.

Whatever the problem, community is the answer!

This is a quote from Margaret Wheatley that I have used often. I have grown over the last 15-20 years to believe this quote with...

A Gift Isn’t A Gift Until It is Given

How have you seen gifts manifest in your community and church during the pandemic and social distancing? It has been so inspiring to me...

Love Your Neighbor

Portland First United Methodist Church in Portland, TX has been on a journey to “connect and reconnect with the neighborhood around the...

We want to be known as great neighbors!

Bethel UMC is in west San Antonio and is over 100 years old. A team from the church just completed the core training for Transformational...

God did not call me to be a property manager

This article is reprinted from September 21, 2017. “God did not call me to be a property manager.” While I may not have spoken these...

A Most Difficult Concept for Christians

This article is reposted from July 17, 2014. One of my favorite resources for Communities of Shalom is the book titled Building a People...

Does rugged individualism limit our ability to build community?

This article is reposted from March 18, 2013. This week I had the pleasure of a visit from Stanley Gitari Imunya and Mary Karimi Gitari...