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Growing Relationships
by Carol Gruber
Hazel Wilson saw a need in the community of Dillon, South Carolina, a small town plagued with inner city crime, drug addiction and teen pregnancy. Hazel is the pastor at New Bethel Presbyterian Church in Dillon. Behind the church are government-funded, low-income apartments, where Hazel and church members observed young children wandering the streets in the summer, nowhere to go while their parents were at work.
“There are no recreational facilities for children,” Hazel explains about Dillon. “There is no YMCA, no skating rink, no bowling alley. God didn’t just place us there to pray about it and see what happens.”
In addition to their prayers, find out what Hazel and members of New Bethel Presbyterian Church did to create a safe, nurturing space in their neighborhood. Read the full text of this article in the September/October issue of Horizons.
Carol Gruber, a lifelong Presbyterian, is author of the book, Cleft in Two: A Story of Miraculous Healing (Nashville: ACW Press, 2000). She has a degree in English from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She has worked as a newspaper reporter and managing editor of a newsletter for realtors.
Photo of Hazel Wilson, pastor of New Bethel Presbyterian Church in Dillon, South Carolina.
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