The Coat Closet at Grace Avenue
For three years, the congregation at Grace Avenue Community Church held a January fast. They posted their prayer schedules online, printed devotional booklets, and filled...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Isaiah 58:1-12.
For three years, the congregation at Grace Avenue Community Church held a January fast. They posted their prayer schedules online, printed devotional booklets, and filled the sanctuary for midweek services. It felt holy. It felt right. Then one February morning, Pastor Linda Nguyen found a teenager asleep against the church's back door, wearing a hoodie too thin for a Michigan winter.…
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