Global Grace Café

Download or read book Global Grace Café written by Elizabeth Colmant Estes and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The decades-long story in this book, about an undocumented family's struggle to stay together in Central New Jersey, dramatically revitalized a 150-year-old church that committed to help them. In 2001, its elderly congregation had dwindled to a few dozen members, and they were considering closing. Today, hundreds of new members, of numerous ethnicities and global origins, crowd into its pews. The church leads an affordable housing corporation that owns more than twenty-five properties in seven municipalities for veterans, women aging out of foster care, developmentally disabled adults, homeless youth, and chronically homeless individuals. More than 160 rental units serve refugees, asylum seekers, and re-entering citizens who may be unable to secure an apartment due to poor (or no) credit history and temporary unemployment. But this story is about far more than church revitalization. It is about a devastating, decades-long war that the United States continues to wage against immigrants, asylees, and refugees. Superhuman feats kept a single family intact"--