The Art of Restoration Amidst Detroit’s Ruined Walls
YVETTE ROCK OF LIVE COAL GALLERY
In her ability to see a place for what it is and what it could be, Yvette Rock is unique among artists who in recent years have tried to capture the fall and rise of Detroit. It helps that the painter, collagist, and photographer lives there, with her husband and four children. “When I go and photograph buildings that are abandoned . . . I start thinking about who lived here and what happened,” notes Rock, owner and director of Live Coal Gallery. “I know that someone was really affected by this. That there’s a person who lost their home.”
In her mixed-media installation “The 10 Plagues of Detroit,” it’s these people as much as Detroit’s social and economic challenges that come to the forefront. And it’s these people, says Rock, whom God has called to be “repairers of broken walls and restorers of streets with dwellings” (Isaiah 58). In this film, our first documentary shot on location in Detroit, Rock describes how the Isaiah passage informs her own work—and sustains her hope for the restoration of her city.
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The Story of Faith behind Bartell Drugs
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The Pharmaceutical Social Enterprise
SCOTT BOYER OF OWP PHARMACEUTICALS
Scott Boyer set out to create a sustainable business model that could be profitable while also doing good work. The result was OWP Pharmaceuticals. Watch their story to see the impact their work is having that is far beyond profits.
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Investors have a hard time finding and investing in high-quality companies that share the same values they do — especially Christian values. That’s why we connect companies with investors through a Christian business pitch competition where business leaders can use their wealth and experience to change the world and make an impact. Learn more at www.thelionsden.us and www.thelionsdendfw.com
Seeing an Impact in Children’s Eyewear
BEN HARRISON OF JONAS PAUL EYEWEAR
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Managing the Risk of Business for the Poor
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Beacon of Hope
DAN MEYER OF NEHEMIAH MANUFACTURING
Inspired by Nehemiah Manufacturing, a pioneer in creating “second chance” employment for returning citizens leaving incarceration, the Beacon of Hope Business Alliance is expanding job opportunities for those who are harder to hire. Over time, its mission is to expose 2,500 new jobs each year to the Fair Chance population in Hamilton County, Ohio, by creating awareness, providing a proven employment process, and cultivating an ecosystem of social support. On the web at www.beaconofhopeba.org, Beacon of Hope is generating employment opportunities at a dramatically larger scale than any single company ever could.
This is a story of second chances. To learn more about how your company can change lives and invest in people like this, please visit www.BeaconOfHopeBA.org.
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Many employees who come to Nehemiah Manufacturing just need a chance to prove themselves. They may show up with a spotty work history – or no work history – or a record blemished in some way. These hard-to-hire candidates are invisible to most companies. But not to us. Because we know giving people a chance is the right thing to do.