Summer 2018 - After praying for Paul DeCelles to be healed of cancer for more than a year, the women of the Allendale walking group met him in person during a July Action trip. From left: Dorothy Anderson, Gladys Moore, Paul DeCelles, Patti Deakin and Regina Brown.

 

Over the past few months the People of Praise has received a great deal of attention in the press. Here, we aim to correct the record and provide clarity on a few important points.

 

We just didn’t have a childhood. Our only sense of being a child was when we were at the People of Praise.

 

Now Beth sees neighborhood families, rich and poor alike, playing alongside one another in the new park.

 

The 2018 Action conference aimed to address, as one participant put it, “universal questions that all teens have been asking themselves”.

 

They cleaned the house from top to bottom, refinished floors and painted. “I have never felt God’s love that much,” Maricruz says.