Church makes scripture-centered fight against neighborhood displacement the core of its mission

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Besides growing a church with new converts to Christianity, New City Church’s central mission is to slow, stop, and even turn back the negative effects of gentrification in urban Minneapolis communities.

Embracing the power of story

“Despite the Rio Grande’s unmistakable capacity to both give and strip away life, there is yet a more formidable power in Hidalgo County, Texas, and it flows from within.”

We share a new series in BNG’s Storytelling Projects “Resilient Rural America”.

Listen to the stories of the more than 268,000 in Hidalgo County living below their federal poverty threshold and you will learn that the Rio Grande waters are rarely hospitable to newcomers, most of whom must take on the slow, agonizing work of rebuilding life from scratch on the other side.

Along the Texas-Mexico border, overcoming poverty requires spiritual liberation

A Mexican immigrant’s harrowing rise from poverty in Hidalgo County, Texas

We created Storytelling Projects because we believe stories, rooted in the Jesus Story, have the power not only to inform but to transform people and communities. They can be sources of spiritual insight, imagination, creativity and hope for all who seek justice and mercy.

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