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This scholarly, well-crafted ethnohistory is a first in the field of public health. It illustrates a process of faith-based health coalition development and maturation. The Coalition's remarkable resilience is rooted in its identity as a multicultural family of God. The examination of racism is riveting in its realism and redemption. --Harold G. Koenig, MD, MHSc, Director, Center for Spirituality, Theology and Health, Duke University Medical Center, USA; and Adjunct Professor, King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia, and Ningxia Medical University, China This book is a lighthouse for all who are in faith-based community health ministries ... The people come alive in these pages ... you see God shining through them ... Yes, God still does miracles ... --Verna Benner Carson, PhD, PMH/CNS-PC, President, C & V Senior Care Specialists, Inc., and Associate Professor, Towson University, USA Karen Hahn and her collaborators have produced a fascinating cultural, sociological, and historical analysis of enduring compassion in action ... This book ... integrates a myriad of perspectives with integrity and depth ... Dr. Hahn's transparent self-exploration ... is refreshing and challenges us all. --Mimi Kiser, DMin, MPH, RN, Senior Program Director, Interfaith Health Program, and Associate Faculty for Research, Hubert Department of Global Health/Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, USA .. . Timeless and profound, it is a priceless gift for faith communities ... A spiritual treasure! --Paula Lilja, DNSc, RN, Faith Community Nurse and Educator for the Evangelical Free Church of America-ReachNational Compassion and Justice, Minneapolis, MN, USA

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Activist Dr. Karen Hahn tells a compelling story of community transformation through a faith-based health coalition. This book features lessons learned in working together to renew a distressed, inner-city neighborhood. It weaves dozens of people's stories, photos, and scholarship into one master story. This artful tapestry invites viewers to reexamine poverty and abundance, power and privilege, racism and multiculturalism. It instructs and inspires as it reveals the inner workings of a caring, Christian community.

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