'A vision to love': Church merger in Tarrant seeking to serve despite challenges

The Alabama Baptist

'A vision to love': Church merger in Tarrant seeking to serve despite challenges

Amos Crews, senior pastor of new merger Pillar of Hope Church, took a drive through the deteriorating Tarrant community that is the church’s newfound home. “This community, quite frankly, looks like a war zone,” Crews said. “Abandoned properties, burned out houses. And our wheelhouse of ministry has been the hopeless, the helpless, those folks (some) would cross the street to get away from. “That was who Jesus reached out to throughout His minis…