tag: urban ministry

A few years ago, we discovered our house had a drainage problem. We learned that if nothing was done we’d have some serious structural problems. With little money and even less knowledge, my wife and I watched a couple of YouTube videos and decided we could fix the problem ourselves…

I live in a neighborhood that, to the world outside it, is virtually invisible. Places like my neighborhood in East Dayton are almost never depicted in TV shows or in movies — if they are, they are represented as alien places into which the protagonists enter with some peril…