Indianapolis Recorder
If your next-door neighbor’s house caught on fire, would you be concerned? Pastor John Girton of Christ Missionary Baptist Church is teaching community members how to weaken the “flames” destroying our city’s most vulnerable neighborhoods, including violence, unstable family situations, health inequality and unemployment.
“Where I live, everyone’s house might include people from different cultures, backgrounds and ethnicities, but if a house catches on fire, that is everybody’s issue, no matter how many fences you put up separating one house from the next,” said Girton. The pastor founded Unite For Change in 2015 with the goal of equipping leaders from urban communities with the platform, skills and resources needed to turn their neighborhoods around.
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