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Add Comment Alvin Brown responds to pressure to keep campaign promise he made to interfaith group! Click here to read article http://jacksonville.com/opinion/blog/403455/matt-dixon/2011-11-10/alvin-brown-responds-pressure-keep-campaign-promise-he ICARE was featured on WJCT's First Coast Connect with host Melissa Ross. Visit here and listen to the May 25 edition. ICARE recently made the front page of the Florida Times-Union's Metro section. Here's the article: ICARE churches unite to tackle Jacksonville's social struggles By Jeff Brumley The economy had been in the tank for some time already when the Rev. Kathryn McLean and her small Westside congregation found themselves overwhelmed by waves of people struggling with foreclosure, unemployment and hunger. "We had never seen the likes of the number, and the intensity and depth of need coming to our doors almost every day," said McLean, pastor of Lake Shore Presbyterian Church. "We helped a lot of people - inside and outside the church - and we were exhausted." |
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