California fires
Adventists’ new North American leader hopes to leverage the denomination’s ‘strength of diversity’
By Adelle M. Banks — October 2, 2020
(RNS) — ‘We can't distance ourselves from it because it's a part of who our church is,’ G. Alexander Bryant said of Adventists facing racial tensions.
In Northern California, churches step up to shelter fire evacuees
By Alejandra Molina — October 30, 2019
(RNS) — CrossWalk Community Church in Napa and Petaluma Valley Baptist Church in Petaluma are two houses of worship that have opened their spaces for evacuees of the Kincade fire in Northern California.
Survivors of California’s unending fires cook up Thanksgiving for latest victims
By Paul O'Donnell — November 20, 2018
(RNS) — Rallying more than 100 volunteers, three women who have lost homes or family members to fires plan to feed 1,000 people on Thanksgiving Day.
As wildfires rage, California town rallies for material, spiritual help
By Yonat Shimron — August 20, 2018
LOS ANGELES (RNS) — Even if the fires are mostly contained, with about 1,600 structures, mostly homes, consumed, the community will rely on churches, parachurch organizations and individuals to lead the way.
A Jewish summer camp burns
By Jeffrey Salkin — October 11, 2017
The fiery loss of Camp Newman reminds us of the power of Jewish camping.
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