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Being Matthew 25 explores innovative ways Denver-area churches are helping their neighbors into housing

Posted September 16th, 2022

Churches in the Presbytery of Denver are reaching out to their neighbors without homes in traditional and even system-altering ways, including a successful effort to get the Aurora City Council to alter zoning on a tract of land to permit development of much-needed affordable housing in what’s become the seventh most expensive place in the nation to own or rent a home.

The story begins with no transportation and no dry tennis shoes

Posted August 21st, 2019

When talking about his work, Mark Hare knows how to capture your attention. A mission co-worker in the Dominican Republic, he was sharing the details of his project with Mouvman Peyizan Papay (MPP), a grassroots organization in Haiti. At the heart of his presentation was the goal of introducing Community Health Evangelism (CHE) in the ecovillages built in Papaye, about 75 miles north of Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

Nebraska Presbyterian Foundation announces more than $141K in grants

Posted June 10th, 2019

When Nebraska Presbyterian Foundation sold one of its two retirement communities in 2017, its board was determined to help make a difference in Nebraska churches and communities by beginning an outward focus on its annual grant awards.

Despite fire at Philly church, ‘the church of Jesus Christ is very much alive’

Posted September 23rd, 2016

Five weeks after fire ravaged a century-old Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia, those affiliated with the church have responded with resilience. For more than a century, Good Shepherd Presbyterian Church stood tall in the city’s Overbrook neighborhood. Now only the charred outer walls of the building remain after fire raged through the church during an early Monday morning in late August.