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  HELP AND HOPE. Silencing the Stigma: JPS Citizens Healthcare Academy Changes Pastors’ Perspective on Care in Tarrant County. From President and CEO Dr. Karen Duncan’s surprise pop quiz at the inaugural JPS Citizens Healthcare Academy to Tarrant County Commissioner Rodrick Miles’s closing remarks connecting health care with faith care, one message became clear: JPS is not the hospital many people remember from the past. About 20 pastors and faith leaders from communities across Tarrant County—many with some of the county’s poorest health outcomes—took part in six weeks of training. They learned about JPS services and met with leaders across the network, exploring topics that included trauma care, women’s health, mental health and jail health care. Some pastors entered the academy uncertain about the quality of care JPS provides. After listening, asking questions and learning about the network’s work, they left with a renewed sense of confidence in JPS and a better understanding of...

HOOK ’EM HOPE: NEW MOUNT ROSE THANKSGIVING TURKEY BOWL BRINGS PARTNERS TOGETHER ON NOVEMBER 21ST. More than 100 turkeys, fresh ground beef, and community support will help fill neighbors’ bowls with blessings for their souls. This Thanksgiving season, New Mount Rose Missionary Baptist Church is bringing community partners together to share food and hope with local families. The annual Thanksgiving Turkey Bowl will take place Saturday, November 21, 2026, at 3 p.m. at New Mount Rose, 2864 Mississippi Avenue, Fort Worth, Texas 76104. This year, Horns4Hope will join New Mount Rose, Midwest Food Bank, Blessings from Burleson, and the faith community by providing fresh ground beef for the church’s Turkey Bags of Blessings. The team plans to distribute more than 100 turkeys along with the bags. Founded in 2020, Horns of Hope is a Texas-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit headquartered in Santo. The organization provides USDA-certified ground beef to food-insecure families, seniors, and individuals ac...

A MARATHON MISSION: MADISON HOGAN III’S MILES OF MEMORIES. By Pastor Kyev Tatum, Sr. Some people are built for sprinting. Madison Hogan III was built for the long run—and for a life of service that carried him from the track at I.M. Terrell to Vietnam and into the neighborhoods of Fort Worth. Hogan still holds I.M. Terrell’s mile record. But the distance that defines his life reaches well beyond the track. He served as a United States Marine during the Vietnam War, worked for the U.S. Postal Service as an automation clerk, and spent decades documenting the people and events around him with a camera. He has been retired from the Postal Service for 16 years. Link:  https://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/crime/article245521480.html His induction into the 2027 class of the Prairie View Interscholastic League Hall of Fame will bring those miles together: the athlete, the veteran, the photographer, the historian, and the neighbor who believed his community deserved to be seen and remem...