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- ↑ Cox, Meg E. (August 10, 2007). "Evanston commune hits 50". Chicago Tribune . Retrieved November 27, 2020.
Shuford, who joined about 400 people in Evanston last weekend for the fellowship's jubilee reunion, believes it has become the oldest urban Christian commune in the U.S. because it has been able to shift the focus of its vision while holding onto the vision itself: 'the idea of being a community.'
- ↑ Varela, Celina (2010). "Reba Place Fellowship: Portrait of a New Monastic Community" (PDF). The Center for Christian Ethics at Baylor University . Retrieved November 27, 2020.
Members of the oldest urban Christian community in America frame their daily lives around honest and loving relationships, the full sharing of resources, active witness to God's justice and peace, practical service to those around them, and a visible common life.
- ↑ "Reba Place Fellowship". Reba Place Fellowship's website. Retrieved October 3, 2020.
- ↑ "Reba Fellowship". WTTW. 2005.
- ↑ Jackson, Dave; Jackson, Neta (2012). Living Together in a World Falling Apart. Castle Rock Creative. 395 in Kindle edition.
After distributing personal and family living allowances, they used the remainder 'to further God's Kingdom,' whether by (1) meeting the needs of a family within their own group who had no wage earner, (2) supporting a person within the group who had been designated to give time in a nonpaying ministry, (3) or by underwriting needs and ministries outside the community.
- ↑ Epstein, Nadine (December 30, 1986). "Refugees find sanctuary in Canada. `Overground Railroad' helps Central Americans get around US law". Christian Science Monitor . Retrieved November 27, 2020.
Reba Place runs the 60-church Overground network in conjunction with Jubilee Partners, a Christian community in Comer, Ga.
- ↑ deFiebre, Conrad (May 9, 1986). "Churches are refugee stops on Overground Railroad". Star Tribune .
It's called the Overground Railroad, a 100-percent legal alternative to the Central America sanctuary movement.
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