In addition to bringing healthy food to North Flint, the co-op was the first step toward a broader vision of community-first development and cooperative economics.

Given Fair Food Network’s deep work in Flint with our Double Up Food Bucks SNAP incentive program, we recognized early on the importance of this grocery project. People in poor neighborhoods just didn’t benefit from the dollars that came in then.”īeyond financing, we’ve been honored to know and partner with Pastor Flynn over the past five years through our work with the Michigan Good Food Fund, a statewide collective of partners working together to improve health and economic opportunity by investing in local food entrepreneurs. “Lots of funding following (the water crisis) went into downtown projects. “I’ve challenged every politician that said they cared about the Black and Brown communities when the water crisis was going on,” he says. It’s called the North Flint Food Market and the model relies on membership, with individuals investing as co-owners of their local grocery store, which will carry pantry staples along with meats, dairy, and fresh produce, with an eye toward sourcing from local farms.ĭespite the deluge of attention following the water crisis, Pastor Flynn found fundraising for the grocery store to be a long-haul adventure. Says Pastor Flynn, “This is a place where corporations come and go at their will. Instead, spurred by residents, they decided to build a new grocery store - one that was owned by the community, not by a corporation. Nor was he going to beg them to come back. Pastor Reginald Flynn, a Flint native who returned to the city 13 years ago to minister at the Foss Avenue Baptist Church congregation, was not surprised. The Bible teaches it.After the Flint water crisis in 2014, the last two major grocery stores left the city’s northside, leaving residents without healthy food when it was needed most to mitigate the effects of lead poisoning. The Church’s ministerial priesthood is an essential part of the plan for salvation. In this engaging, live, two-disc set you will learn that Jesus did not abandon the form of Old Testament priesthood but elevated and transformed it, giving priests of the New Covenant his own authority to lead, to teach, to forgive sins, and most of all, to stand in his place and re-present the once-for-all sacrifice that he offered on Calvary. That mission has its roots in the Hebrew priesthood, which exercised leadership over the people and offered sacrifices on their behalf.

He shows how Sacred Scripture, beginning with the Old Testament, not only teaches a common priesthood of all believers but reveals a plan for a ministerial, hierarchical priesthood-a holy office instituted by Jesus that carries out its mission in the Church unto this day. In his audio presentation The Bible Blueprint for the Priesthood, apologist and teacher Karlo Broussard plumbs the evidence and presents a compelling case that the Catholic priesthood is in fact biblical to the core.

Who’s right? Who does the Bible say is right? Most Protestants think that the only priesthood-at least the only one taught in the Bible-is the common priesthood made up of all Christians, and so the Catholic idea is just another false “tradition of men.” Catholics believe that Christ instituted a ministerial priesthood specially ordained to teach and sanctify his people.

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