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Here's an interesting article about the Fellowship, the mysterious organization behind the C Street boarding house that has been so much in the news in recent years.
Excerpted from “FRAT HOUSE FOR JESUS; [SIZE="-1"]The entity behind C Street.[/SIZE]” by Peter J. Boyer, The New Yorker, SEPTEMBER 13, 2010
… [SIZE="+2"]T[/SIZE]he core mission of the Fellowship, however, is interpersonal ministry to the powerful, meant “to turn their hearts to the poor.”
For the past forty years, this mission has been largely driven by one man, a layman from Oregon named Doug Coe. …