Pastor Joe Caruso started his job in 2008 at Grace Church in Akron, Ohio — not in the church offices, but at summer camp. He jumped in for a week alongside kids from Urban Vision, a nonprofit that’s been working in Akron’s economically distressed, but beautifully diverse, North Hill community since 1992. Grace, a multisite suburban congregation of around 3,000, has partnered with Urban Visio
Issue
The Work of God, Side by Side
How the promise, and theology, of parachurch partnerships can serve church and community.
This story is from Common Good issue 08.