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Last Friday, members of the PHP Advisory Committee and staff, along with colleagues from Presbyterian Disaster Assistance and the Presbyterian Committee on the Self-Development of People, met with Rev. Angela Johnson of Grace Hope Presbyterian Church to learn about the many ways the congregation is serving Smoketown, one of Louisville’s oldest historically Black neighborhoods.

From a monthly mobile food pantry in partnership with Dare to Care, to community organizing through CLOUT: Citizens of Louisville Organized and United Together, to efforts to transform unused property into a senior living facility. Yesterday, Grace Hope also hosted a Guns to Gardens event, where community members could surrender weapons to be cut, melted down and transformed into garden tools or art.

Grace Hope is truly living up to its name, addressing immediate needs while also working toward long-term solutions to hunger, poverty and injustice in the community.