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The Importance of Home and Mission Field in the Urban Poor
In 2007, I joined a group called Servants. International network of Christian communities in which everyone feels called to live and minister among the urban poor. The downtown East Side is just four by eight city blocks; at home on any given night, you'll find 5,000 neighbors struggling with drug addictions. And it didn't take long before my neighborhoods brokenness broke me. "I had no idea how to make peace, bring peace to this neighborhood," he says.