Church Alliances Serve Those Facing Homelessness & Addiction

Church Alliances Serve Those Facing Homelessness & Addiction

In Trinidad, Colo., 200 miles south of Denver, Clay Mason leads a 12-member ministerial alliance. But his move from Texas to Trinidad, a city of 8,200 bisected by Interstate 25 and the Purgatoire River, was not about ministry. He and his wife, Mary, arrived in their RV eight and a half years ago to pursue nontraditional cancer treatments, which Clay believes cured him. They initially felt unwelcome at a local church in their denomination, the Ch…