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When James Warmack was 17, a staff member from Greater Cleveland Youth For Christ took him to the new Metro Alliance Church and introduced him to Pastor Juri Ammari. That began a relationship that has endured some dark days, and that illustrates the hard work of carrying out the GreatRead More

A diverse movement is unifying churches and impacting neighborhoods / At 3 o’clock on a Wednesday afternoon in Cleveland, the kingdom of God breaks out. A schoolteacher and two pastors from different denominations are talking at the kitchen table in the Family Ministry Center, where they share workspace. Julie Jones,Read More

Hays Pure Water Offers Life from Crossfield News on Vimeo. WASHINGTON, Iowa – The little graves dotting the rural African village gave John Hays all the proof he needed that he had brought his crazy invention to the right place. It was 2006, at a leper colony in Tanzania. TheRead More

Small business boosts Hays Pure Water Foundation’s bottom line BURLINGTON, Iowa — Of all the places TJ Widbin would love to visit, the back of a semi trailer stacking bottled water probably doesn’t make the list. But today, the 26-year-old software salesman is doing his other job – delivering bottlesRead More

After quake, children’s home struggles to regain footing All photos by Adam Malooly PORT-AU-PRINCE – Boxes fly off the truck as four men pass them, one to the next, through Eveline Louis Jacques’ front door. The guys laugh and joke with each other as the boxes stack up in Eveline’sRead More

  Floods caused by torrential rains wreaked havoc along Colorado’s Front Range in September 2013. We reported from two of the hardest-hit areas. VIDEO: Huge damage, huge response STORY / PHOTO GALLERY: Scenes from a disaster VIDEO: A pastor offers advice to churches responding to a crisis

Margie Davis picked through debris in what used to be her back yard. She’s lived in the tiny mountain community of Glenhaven, Colo., for 16 years. Saturday (Sept. 21) was her second time back to the house she shares with her husband, mother and father-in-law, since flood waters overwhelmed theRead More