Local Treasures
How a Covenant church Plant in Monterrey evolved into an empowering community resource.
How a Covenant church Plant in Monterrey evolved into an empowering community resource.
In the midst of the pandemic, chaplains have access to people and places other pastors do not. We minister from inside to a world that is hurting.
Patty Burchell says she has a vivid memory of a promise she made to God in seventh grade: “I will go.” From that moment on, she trusted God to call her into various fields of Christian ministry. Today she serves as the first female station manager of KICY radio in Nome, Alaska, a ministry of the Alaska Conference, where she broadcasts the gospel to a vast region of western Alaska and the Russian Far East.
In the room that evening were gathered four generations—a rare gift in many contexts, but after listening to 1619, I was acutely aware of how impossible this would be for many of the families whose stories Hannah-Jones recounts.
