42 Distillation Guidebook Co-Lab • 9.18–9.19 2025 Playwrights ashley sparks and Mark Valdez are creating a trilogy of plays on housing and community development. They are working on their second play about faith communities and their potential to respond to the housing crisis. This is a fictional email from ashley to Abby Goldfarb, Executive Director of the Lehigh Conference of Churches, a faith-based housing services non-profit. Dear Abby, I’ve just returned home from visiting several churches to talk about housing. This week, we chatted with Presbyterians and Methodists. It was so inspiring. Thank you for connecting us with other faith leaders! Our work is frequently done through “you should go talk with so-and-so” recommendations. Your suggestions paid off with some hilarious and some heartbreaking stories. We have been humbled hearing about congregations really wanting to be in “sacred partnership” with the community. A Likely Combination: Faith, Theater, and Defining Home CONNECTION
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