The Community Resource Center at St. Andrew Lutheran Church, Mahtomedi, Minn., connects hundreds of needy families in the northeast Twin Cities suburbs to the help they need.
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| Kayleena (left), Monisa and Roxanne get a hug from ELCA pastor Sarah Breckenridge at the Community Resource Center, a ministry of St. Andrew Lutheran Church, Mahtomedi, Minn. The children can spend the day in the center while their parents work on their housing stability plan. |
Four years ago, St. Andrew's members already were working hard to lessen poverty in the inner city. But with the downturn, the church was getting calls from the neighborhood, where services were scattered, nonexistent or hard to get to.
"People were feeling lost," said Kellie Cardinal, center director.
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