Wendover Housing Partners Gets Approval to Build Central Florida’s First Permanent Supportive Housing Community
The City of Sanford Planning and Zoning Commission approved the project on September 6, clearing the way for construction to begin in December. The project, called Warley Park, will be an 85-unit multifamily affordable housing community for homeless
50 Most Powerful 2018: Philanthropy & Community Voices
Hunter left Northland last year, the church he built into one of the largest in Central Florida, to become a full-time volunteer helping homeless families in Central Florida. …His goal: “to knit together an entire community response to effectively help those who are needy and homeless.”
There’s a Very Simple Reason Evangelicals Love Scott Pruitt
In 2007, the Rev. Joel Hunter formed a creation care team at his Northland evangelical megachurch in central Florida. “Creation care” describes a movement within the U.S. Christian community to better steward God’s creation, aka the Earth—it is, in short, environmentalism for the faithful. Many embraced Hunter’s initiative. Many did not.
Children’s Trust Campaign Gaining Momentum Quickly Receives 500 Petition Signatures for Mayor Jacobs and Commission
“The Children’s Trust is not an effort to discredit the millions of dollars Orange County currently spends on our children,” said Dr. Joel Hunter, former Senior Pastor at Northland Church and current Chairman of the Community Resource Network.
Central Florida Tackles Homelessness: Onward, and Upward, Homeward.
Central Florida tackles homelessness: Onward, and upward, homeward
Shelley W. Lauten was tapped to be chief executive officer of the Central Florida Commission on Homelessness in October 2016. The Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board recently reached out to Lauten to ask about the rewards and frustrations of her tenure. Q: Looking back, what was your greatest challenge?
Faith and Nonprofits: Can you create a partnership?
Faith and Nonprofits: Can you create a partnership?
Dr. Joel Hunter of the Community Resource Network explains how nonprofit leaders can partner with the faith community.
Life after Northland Church
Life after Northland Church
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Church network seeks to guide homeless families to self-sufficiency
Church network seeks to guide homeless families to self-sufficiency
When homeless people come to Altamonte Chapel, the congregation welcomes them to worship and offers the help it can: a meal, a ride, maybe some new clothes. But the small church doesn't have the resources to get them off the streets permanently.
Evangelicals Join Forces in October to Pray for Victims of Gun Violence on Survivor Sunday
Evangelicals Join Forces in October to Pray for Victims of Gun Violence on Survivor Sunday - Standard Newswire
The Dietrich Bonhoeffer Institute joins with prominent church leaders and the Prayer Warriors Against Gun Violence social network to launch nationwide remembrance on October 15, 2017"God bless Prayer Warriors Against Gun Violence, Rev. Rob Schenck and the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Institute for organizing a national prayer effort appropriately titled Survivor Sunday.
