In 2017, Glendale United Methodist Church didn’t look like it was going to survive long. But committed lay people, a dedicated pastor and radical inclusiveness turned things around.
Hannah Buchanan, a pastor at Highland Park United Methodist Church in Dallas, writes about grief and serving in a community that has been “shaken to its core” by deadly flooding.
The Rev. Cristin Cooper had the goal of selling Mason jars of homemade soup at the local farmers market to help Soup Church, a dinner church she and her husband started in their apartment. But her soup-making business, Coop’s Soups, has proved effective in building community and sparking spiritual conversations.
