One More Season
In 2019, Detroit city officials tagged over 10,000 vacant lots for demolition. Among them was a crumbling property on Heidelberg Street that a retired schoolteacher...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Luke 13:1-9.
In 2019, Detroit city officials tagged over 10,000 vacant lots for demolition. Among them was a crumbling property on Heidelberg Street that a retired schoolteacher named Martha Hayes had been watching from her porch for seven years. "Every spring I'd think, somebody ought to do something with that lot," she told a local reporter. Nobody ever did. Then her church's urban ministry coordinator, James Whitfield, proposed something unexpected.…
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