red that the entire earthly ministry of Jesus was devoted to empowering ordinary people to live extraordinary lives --people who had been given no hope of overcoming their infirmities by the religious authorities were healed as often by their own faith as by the miraculous activity of our Lord.
Trilby UMC is one example of a dynamic, growing church. In spite of its location in what Pastor Rose Grindheim Sims describes as "Florida's greatest poverty pocket, a multi-ethnic, high-crime area of despair." The church's success in transforming itself from a dying body of less than a dozen active members to a congregation which numbered more than 220 in just four years can be attributed to ministering to the needs o
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