A few years ago, Faith in the Valley leader Carmen Ojeda was taking an ESL class in her community of Dos Palos in Merced County when some classmates began sharing their concerns around language and involvement barriers in their children’s…
What would it take to solve the housing crisis for the Central Valley (and California as a whole)? Many of the answers are in Vienna, Austria. Since 2009, Vienna has been ranked 10 times as the most livable city in…
How can we create a better Central Valley where faith and justice can be used to help the people who need it the most? This is the question that the Rev. Dr. Frederick Douglass Haynes III—a prophetic pastor, passionate leader,…
Spring to early summer brings us many beautiful sacred days and seasons pulling us into encounters with the Holy. Our sacred traditions move us to return to that which grounds us and shapes us and forms us into better neighbors,…
In this Justice Revival Lecture, we invited Professor Najeeba Syeed to lead a discussion with us about how to explore models of justice that place agency and power in the hands of the community. Najeeba is the first director of…
Michael Baldwin is a member of Faith in the Valley’s Board of Directors and resides in Stanislaus County. In 2018, after serving 26 years of a double-life sentence, Michael settled in Modesto to use his life experience to bring healing…