Churches Address Housing Challenges
Contributing Author Sharon Grisby of The Lab Report Dallas provides a thorough assessment of how churches in Dallas and Charlotte address housing challenges in their cities.
Key Elements of the Article
Demonstrate Your Faith in the Community. Seek opportunities to connect with your local community and neighbors.
Invest in Your Longtime Neighbors. Buy surrounding land and properties.
Partner With Local Agencies. Affordable housing and crime stopper organizations to address local crime.
Read the full article How Churches are Surviving and Serving Through Housing.
Recommendations for Faith Leaders
- Build relationships and partnerships with advocated in local agencies. Local agencies can provide insights, resources, and access to unique servant opportunities
- Identify local challenges to solve. Problems such as food insecurity, lack of affordable housing, even crime can be address by the church with creative serving.
- Partnership is serving. View these business partnerships as servant leadership.
Conclusion
A concluding thought from the article –
“I don’t think you expect a church like little old Newell to do something like this,” Conner says. “But God can use your church or your synagogue or your mosque. … You just have to have people willing to say, Let’s risk it together.”
