Helms Jarrell, co-director of the QC Family Tree intentional Christian community, had given crystal-clear instructions for the youth group’s annual trip to Boone, N.C. They had just hauled a van-full of Enderly Park teenagers up from Charlotte and the group…
For this intentional Christian community, seeking the world’s healing means battling gentrification close at home
Enderly Park is blistering under an unseasonable September heat, and Frank Byers saunters across Tuckaseegee Road to the rec center where he likes to play cards with his neighbors. He doesn’t use the crosswalk, but in many ways he’s earned…
What is QC Family Tree?
QC Family Tree is an intentional Christian community forming relationships and seeking justice alongside residents of the Enderly Park neighborhood of Charlotte, N.C. Since 2005, co-directors Greg and Helms Jarrell have called the Queen City home and sought wholeness with…
Video: What does justice look like in Enderly Park?
Helms Jarrell speaks about the long, ambiguous path toward justice as well as finding hope among her neighbors. In this series on QC Family Tree, we learn how the Jarrells are organizing to combat gentrification, which increasingly threatens long-time Enderly…
Video: How is QC Family Tree seeking justice in Enderly Park?
Greg Jarrell discusses the role of imagination in a justice-seeking life. In this series on QC Family Tree, we learn how the Jarrells are organizing to combat gentrification, which increasingly threatens long-time Enderly Park residents with rising property value and…
Video: What do you love about Enderly Park?
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Video: How is QC Family Tree on the path toward justice?
Cornelia Hagens, volunteer with the QC Family Tree youth group, speaks about what justicelooks like for children and teenagers in Enderly Park, Charlotte, NC. In this series on QC Family Tree, we learn how the Jarrells are organizing to combat…
Video: Why are you fighting for stable housing in West Charlotte?
Frank Byers speaks about his experience with gentrification and displacement, and why his community is fighting to maintain stable housing in Enderly Park. Frank is a long-time Charlotte resident and chair of the West Side Community Land Trust. In…
Photo Gallery: QC Family Tree in photos
All photos taken in this photo gallery of QC Family Tree are by Lesley-Ann Hix Tommey. [Best_Wordpress_Gallery id=”6″ gal_title=”Family Tree”] In this series on QC Family Tree, we learn how the Jarrells are organizing to combat gentrification, which increasingly threatens long-time…
N.C. Baptist convention denounces racism, but not the Confederate flag
The Baptist State Convention of North Carolina denounced racism in a resolution adopted at its annual meeting, but stopped short of endorsing the Southern Baptist Convention’s call to refrain from public displays of the Confederate flag or statements by SBC leaders supporting the removal of Civil War monuments.
Baptist school in spotlight after soda-throwing incident at NBA game
Students at California Baptist University gathered on campus Oct. 9 to send a counter-message to a racially charged viral video they say is giving the private Christian school controlled by the California Southern Baptist Convention a bad name.
SBC president, CBF pastors join in call to remove Confederate statue
The president of the Southern Baptist Convention joined more than 170 black and white clergy, including Cooperative Baptist Fellowship pastors, in Memphis, Tenn., in an open letter Sept. 13 seeking permission from the state or local officials to remove a Confederate monument from a city park.