Over the next decade, a congregation of about 150 people invested $1.5 million of its own money in community development projects that brought over $10 million of investments into their neighborhood. They partnered with state and local government, businesses, congregations, and individuals to build fifty-six single-family homes, forty units of subsidized senior housing, a restaurant, and a community center, which houses a preschool, an after-school program, a gang-prevention program, and a reentry program for people coming home from prison. And twenty-five years after their leadership retreat,
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