Rev. Beth Bostrom is director of spiritual formation and chaplain at Metropolitan Ministries, which addresses homelessness through prevention services and self-sufficiency shelter programs. Bostrom chairs the board’s Governance Committee. She is a former Bread for the World Hunger Justice Leader and a local Bread Team member. Bostrom’s previous ministry experience includes serving as pastor of Roseland United Methodist Church, as campus minister at the University of Miami, in pediatric chaplaincy in Atlanta, and in case management with persons experiencing homelessness in Tallahassee. She holds a Master of Divinity from Candler School of Theology at Emory University and is an ordained minister in the United Methodist Church. Bostrom is United Methodist. Sarasota, Florida.
By Jordan Teague, senior international policy advisor
In just five years, Kenya reduced its...
“As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, continue to live your lives in him, rooted and built up in him and established in faith.” These words from Colossians 2:6 remind us of the faith that is active in love for our neighbors.
The Bible on...
Dear Members of Congress,
As the president and Congress are preparing their plans for this year, almost 100 church leaders—from all the families of U.S. Christianity—are...
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