Welcome House Expansion Set to Expand Efforts to Combat Homelessness in North Carolina 18 December, 2020 - 22:40
By Caleb Mynatt Taking beds to do an apartment set up for newly arrived refugee family
As a very well-known faith-based charitable organization in North Carolina, Welcome House has had a tremendous impact on hundreds of people. Now, with expansion in sight, they’re calling on local communities and congregations to help them impact thousands.
Founded by Kim and Marc Wyatt, Cooperative Baptist Fellowship field personnel in Raleigh, Welcome House has become known around North Carolina because of its results. Originally created to assist refugees and immigrants who had recently migrated to the United States, what was a small operation in Raleigh expanded to eight houses around the state. Now, as the flow of refugees and migrants into the United States has slowed, Welcome House is looking to broaden its reach.
Baton Rouge church joins CBF-National Baptist Hurricane Recovery Efforts in Lake Charles, La. 18 December, 2020 - 22:40
By Caleb Mynatt
As the winds stirred and the sky turned to black on August 27, 2020, the citizens of Lake Charles, La., were confronted with a reality that is all too familiar.
Hurricanes hitting the Louisiana coast have become an almost annual occurrence these days, but not often does a Hurricane Laura, a Category Four storm, barrel towards the Gulf Coast. The residents of this small city in the southeast part of the state prepared for the worst, and also readied to start a clean-up process that has become far too common.
Houston church provides timely Advent offering to Matamoros ministry 16 December, 2020 - 22:10
By Elket Rodríguez
Shared understanding of weakness and vulnerability prompted a Houston church to support a ministry to refugees in Matamoros, Mexico just across the border from Brownsville, Texas.(Left) Agustín Morales, deacon of Templo Bautista de South Houston and (right) pastor David Deulofeu
As Pastor Eleuterio González responded to the COVID-19 outbreak that forced him to close an immigrant shelter in Matamoros, Pastor David Deulofeu prepared to bless González’s ministry with winter provisions warm clothes, blankets, towels and bed linens as well as food and school supplies.
Guests
The Most Rev. Michael Curry is Presiding Bishop and Primate of The Episcopal Church. He is the author of
Dr. Russell Moore is President of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, the moral and public policy agency of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination. He is the author of
Transcript
Krista Tippett, host: We’re in a tender spiritual moment as a country widely feeling our need for re-grounding and healing both alone and together. But calls for social repair and unity are also meeting an understandable wariness. The last years have been bruising all around. So of course I leapt at an invitation to be in a forward-looking conversation with two religious thinkers and spiritual leaders from very different places on our Christian and cultural spectrum: Michael Curry, the Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church of the U.S., together with Russell Moore, the president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission – essentia