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Stories from the inner city

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An Everlasting Welcome

For our friends in Bakersfield, California, Easter can be an invigorating time of year. Cool, dry winter days lengthen into warm, bright days of spring. Produce crops are sown with

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Helping Us Both

“Bob,” a homeless man, rings our doorbell most nights. He lives nearby in a boarded up house. I met Bob late last summer. He frequently walked by my house, and

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What Does This Mean?

“What does this mean?” Sierra held up the gospel bead bracelet she’d been given. Imogene smiled as she looked at the girl. A few weeks earlier, Imogene had been driving