New Chapter Ventures | Placemaking & Adaptive Reuse for Churches Transforming church spaces with our neighbors. New Chapter Ventures provides expert guidance on adaptive reuse, helping churches create sustainable economic opportunities.

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Join the church movement reshaping our neighborhoods—embracing love and creating community to house our neighbors and recognize our shared humanity.

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As congregations across the country shrink, churches offer space for homeless shelters Congregations with underutilized houses of worship are trying to convert them to affordable housing or homeless shelters. There are significant challenges.

The idea that there's that much land available to go after some of these real important issues in our communities is exciting. ~~Mark Elsdon, RootedGood, in an interview with NPR

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There are weeks when you wonder what happened. What did I achieve? You can be so blinded by activity that you forget what you've actually done. For self-encouragement I've listed what I've done this week. It's been really useful. What have you done? I'd love to see.

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RootedGood exists to equip churches, leaders, and church-related institutions with resources and processes that build confidence and capacity as we imagine and become something new for the good of the world.
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Episode 9 of the Igniting Imagination podcast, guest-hosted by Shannon and Mark E. of #RootedGood with guest Joe Bowling, may be found here: conta.cc/4jOnEwK.
Listen to "How Can Church Property Serve the Neighborhood?" @englewoodcdc
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