<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/magazine/fall-2011/connecting-church-and-community.html" dsn="news"><pubDate/><title>Connecting Church and Community</title><excerpt>When Pastor Carley Friesen ’76 helped Mt. Tabor Presbyterian Church create a coffee house in an unused fellowship hall, she didn’t write a business plan. “Instead, we decided to open an amazing space and see what the community wanted to develop there,” she says.</excerpt><author/><image>
            
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