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  • Volusia County couple offers clean start to homeless residents

    March 21, 2024 |

    Daytona Times |

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    Response Location: United States, New Smyrna Beach, Florida

    A mobile shower facility called God’s Bathouse stops at churches in Florida to provide a safe environment for people experiencing homelessness to take a hot shower and address their health maintenance needs.

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  • A roof overhead can make or break a college degree for young Coloradans

    February 19, 2024 |

    KUNC |

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    Response Location: United States, Fort Collins, Colorado

    LuMin, a Lutheran ministry organization, provides subsidized rooms to college students struggling with housing insecurity. Though the program can only accommodate a fraction of applicants, students who have received housing say it has enabled them to focus on their studies rather than on making ends meet.

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  • Western Oregon church hosts residential huts in parking lot as part of its housing ministry

    February 16, 2024 |

    Episcopal News Service |

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    Response Location: United States, Springfield, Oregon

    St. John the Divine Episcopal Church's overnight parking program offers those who are temporarily unhoused a place to stay, typically by camping in their cars or RVs. Recently, the Church partnered with local social service agencies to add three semi-permanent housing huts to their parking lot. Residents staying in the hut have access to amenities in the Church, like a kitchen, and are welcome to stay as long as they need to until they decide to move into more permanent accommodations.

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  • How a Methodist Church Accidentally Became a Refugee Shelter

    February 16, 2024 |

    Sojourners |

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    Response Location: United States, Tukwila, Washington

    Riverton Park United Methodist Church has become a shelter for people navigating the immigration and asylum process, hosting 200 to 500 people in the past year. The church recently received $500,000 in donations, spending the majority of it on supplies, staffing, legal assistance and other resources and services to continue supporting refugees.

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  • Diocese of San Joaquin nears its renewable energy goal, with 95% reliance on solar power

    November 08, 2023 |

    Episcopal News Service |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    The Diocese of San Joaquin in California worked together with a developer and local utilities to install solar panels at 14 of its locations to make 95% of its energy use renewable.

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  • Will Speer Found Hope Enough to Share on Texas's Death Row

    October 23, 2023 |

    Texas Monthly |

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    Response Location: United States, Texas

    Twenty-eight death row inmates have gone through the Texas Department of Criminal Justice’s Rehabilitation Programs Division’s Faith-Based Program. Over a year and a half, they take classes, participate in community discussions, and attend religious services that encourage a sense of purpose, help them find inner peace with God, and inspire them to make a difference in the prison.

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  • Black churches play a key role in connecting communities to broadband internet

    October 06, 2023 |

    Religion News Service |

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    Response Location: United States, Mississippi

    Black Churches 4 Digital Equity partners with local congregations and clergy members to connect people with internet access helping them get signed up with the Affordable Connectivity Program, which provides discounted internet access and a one-time discount for laptop, desktop, or tablet purchases for those whose income is less than 200% of the federal poverty line. Through community outreach and events, local clergy have helped more than 230,000 households enroll in the program.

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  • Faith-based maternity homes ‘create a haven' in states with strict abortion laws

    October 03, 2023 |

    Stateline |

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    Response Location: United States, Chilton County, Alabama

    Selah’s Oasis is a maternity home that provides housing for pregnant women and new, single mothers. The Center offers pregnancy resources including free pregnancy tests, ultrasounds and parenting classes, as well as Bible study, baby supplies and counseling against abortion. At maternity homes, women can stay for the duration of their pregnancy, as well as for several months, or even years, after giving birth. Selah’s Oasis serves about 400 people per year, but due to increased need, they’ve already met that goal by September and are expecting the number to climb to 500 to 600 people by the end of the year.

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  • Burgers but no beers: Emigrant Gap restaurant is connected to drug-alcohol recovery program

    September 21, 2023 |

    Sacramento Bee |

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    Response Location: United States, Emigrant Gap, California

    The Sierra-Pacific Teen Challenge program supports people in recovery from drug and alcohol abuse with robust skills training, employment, on-site housing, and peer support. Of those who complete the program, about 85% remain clean and sober after 5 years.

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  • One congregation's path to carbon neutral offers case study as diocese, denomination work toward 2030 goal

    August 04, 2023 |

    Episcopal News Service |

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    Response Location: United States, Davis, California

    St. Martin’s Episcopal Church went carbon neutral. After installing an eclectic heat pump system, the California-based parish regained momentum on a years-long renewable energy path, updated all its appliances to eclectic, and installed another solar array.

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