Stories Of Hope

It’d always seemed to Kempton Turner that East St. Louis was the kind of place people leave. After all, his hometown has a murder rate 19 times the national average and two out of every three kids here live below the poverty line. But this is not a story about the kind of place people want to leave. This is a story about a city where a man who once left as a prodigal son is now welcomed back as a modern-day Nehemiah. January is Poverty Awareness Month. Find out how you can help strengthen communities at SendRelief.org.