Special project: United Nations of Faith

In the “United Nations of Faith” series, The Christian Chronicle takes readers inside congregations working to embrace and serve diverse communities:

Unity in Chicago

• ‘It’s the same Jesus’: After a three-year pandemic delay, a Chicago unity service brings together Christians who worship in English, Korean and Spanish.

• Church food pantries respond to increased need amid migrant surge: Churches of Christ in Chicago look past the politics and focus on serving new arrivals from Latin America, Ukraine and beyond.

Christians enjoy a potluck meal at the Northwest Church of Christ in Chicago.

Welcoming refugees

• How a Russian immigrant came to serve Ukrainian refugees: A Houston church develops a thriving outreach to families fleeing the war.

• Sharing love — and Christ — with refugees: Since the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan two years ago, an Oklahoma church has worked to help its new neighbors.

• How a grassroots ministry to Afghan refugees ‘snowballed’ into something big: A Texas church’s outreach started with one couple compelled to ‘do something.’

• They were the foreigners: Brazil experience shapes former missionaries’ outreach to refugees and immigrants.

Ranaa Darmaan shares her family’s photo album with Jo Harmon during a visit.

New York melting pot

• Upper West Side Story: Diverse congregation in New York counts members from five continents — but no Jets or Sharks.

• A diverse church full of conversion stories: Far from the Bible Belt, a Long Island congregation led by first-generation Christians works to reach the lost.

• A blessed visit to a Ghanaian immigrant congregation: For Christians in the Bronx, love transcends any language barrier.

Members of the North Bronx Church of Christ worship on a Wednesday night.

Brazilian missionaries in U.S.

• ‘God doesn’t see the borders’: Brazilian missionaries follow immigrants to Florida.

Maikon Borba, center, prays with Mexican, Brazilian and American Christians.

African immigrant congregation in Minnesota

• ‘Divine power’ saves Nigerian native preacher: Churches in the Twin Cities area rally around a minister severely burned in a grease fire.

Richard Inyang in his office at the Roseville Church of Christ in Minnesota.

BOBBY ROSS JR. is Editor-in-Chief of The Christian Chronicle. Reach him at [email protected].

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