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No ambulance brings a community chaplain to the scene. They are already there. They live three streets over, know the pastors and the police shift commanders by name, and get the call when a family loses a home to fire or a neighborhood loses a teenager. Community chaplaincy is the quiet backbone of...
Community chaplains work in the ordinary places where people already live: neighborhood centers, shelters, food banks, disaster sites, small businesses, and civic gatherings. They do not wait for people to walk into a hospital or a station house. They go to the corner where life happens and stay lon...
