Melanie Gering is a young Nazarene pastor currently serving in Raleigh, NC. She talks about her church, Tapestry, and their non-profit, Neighbor to Neighbor. . This episode is sponsored by A Plain Account. A Plain Account is a free Wesleyan Lectionary Commentary that seeks to provide a heterogeneous perspective of homiletical based commentaries from the Revised Common Lectionary. Find out more at www.aplainaccount.org. The resources Melanie mentions are: The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander The House I Live In on Netflix Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie