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Its that time of the year again where people gather to drink hot chocolate and walking Christmas Tree Lane with friends and families .
We’ve been serving the Fig Garden community during the Christmas Tree Lane walk nights for the past several years. Each year the Fig garden campus uses this…
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Every week over 2000 students get to hear the Gospel through our 90 on-campus Fellowship of Christian Athlete (FCA) clubs.
Here are just a couple examples of what God is doing through FCA in the Fresno area this 2019 school year so far.
20 Students received Jesus on Sept 18th at Reyburn…
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It has been 7 months since we landed in Addis Ababa and began our new lives here in Sodo, Ethiopia. We moved to Ethiopia to be part of PAACS, whose mission and vision is to train and disciple African surgeons for Africa.
This 16-month-old girl had recurrent lung infections and stunted growth…
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Janie Richmond
When a church is welcomed onto a public school campus, it’s an honor to step in and serve. Since 2002, The Well has been involved with Susan B. Anthony Elementary School near downtown Fresno. This partnership was the inspiration to form Every Neighborhood Partnership (ENP) and help other churches…
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Danny was not just a typical teenager in our neighborhood; he was a known gang member. It was clear that he had a hard life and a hardened heart. Our neighborhood is filled with “Dannys”; guys that hate school, have dysfunctional homes, are gang affiliated and have criminal records. They end up dead…
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Brenna M is a Global Intern who has been living in Peru for the last year. Here is an update on her summer break and entering in year 2. If you want to hear more about who she is and what she is doing, click here.
Wow! The past two months flew by and it is amazing that I have already started the…
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It has been a huge year for Every Neighborhood Partnership (ENP). Fresno’s a city that has many exciting moving parts.
This year our Neighborhood Development team launched a leadership cohort in Southwest Fresno. Each district selected two representatives from their neighborhood to attend the…
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Costa Rica Team Member
Our home base located in Desamparados, a town in the capital province of San Jose, has a population of 5 million people. Fitting enough, the name of the town means “Fatherless” or “Abandoned.” This seemed to be a central theme for our home town and the three other locations we had sites in: Los…
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Costa Rica Team Member
One of the things I wanted to learn by coming to Costa Rica was the commonalities and differences between my own Mexican culture and the Tican culture. There are words and phrases that they use that I don’t normally use, and vice versa! But there is a common value that I believe both Latino cultures…
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Costa Rica Team Member
For almost a year I got to look forward to going on this Exposure Trip to Costa Rica, and now it’s finally here!
I did not know what to expect going into this trip. I had no idea what my host family was going to be like, the food I was going to be eating, or what God wanted to teach me while I…
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