At Love Mercy Do Justice, we look for ways to join God in making things right in our broken world. Part of the work of justice – of making things right – is to take a closer look at roadblocks …
Category: Community Development
Justice Discipleship Pathways in the SEC
The Southeast Conference is creating justice discipleship pathways for SEC churches through a newly formed SEC Justice Institute. The mission of the Southeast Conference Justice Institute (SECJI) is to form discipleship networks of certified justice advocates and activists in Southeast …
Grace in the Gap
by Nancy Sneller, Pastor at Bay Covenant Church, WI
Bay Covenant Church located in Green Bay, Wisconsin, is ideally located for ministry—a university campus, a homeless shelter, and the Brown County jail are all found in our immediate neighborhood.
Our …
Homework in the Garage
by Heather Chapman, co-founder of UNIDOS, San Juan Capistrano, CA
California’s 39% Latino population is rising, and in the Capistrano Villas it is about 95%. Yet in many ways, this community lives trapped behind a one-way glass. Many in this …
Cov Enterprises – Fleurish Industries
by Adam Gustine, LMDJ Director of Ministry Initiatives
Fleurish Industries is a social enterprise led by folks at Canal Street Church in New Orleans. Canal Street, along with their non-profit The Restoration Initiative, imagined a neighborhood where people experienced life …
Affordable Housing – City Covenant Church
by Adam Gustine; Director LMDJ Ministry Initiatives
Over the past two years, the ECC has developed a new approach to collaboration between local church, conference and Covenant Offices centered on affordable housing in low income communities. The pilot project was …
Center of Life: Remembrance and Hope
by Laura Garvey, Great Lake Conference. Featuring Pastor Tim Smith, Keystone Covenant Church, Pittsburgh, PA. Story reposted from the Great Lakes Conference newsletter.
Pastor Tim Smith lost track of how many boys and men he had eulogized and buried – …
Book Review: Where the Cross Meets the Street
By Leeann Younger, co-planting pastor of Cityview Covenant Church in Pittsburgh, PA. She is a proud wife, adoring mother and currently obsessed with being in “the room where it happens”.
In Where the Cross Meets the Streets Noel Castellanos shares …