Keith Wasserman is founder and executive director of Good Works, Inc., a nonprofit ministry that, for more than forty years, has worked alongside people in rural Appalachia to build a community of hope among those struggling with poverty, isolation, exclusion, and homelessness.

Christine D. Pohl is professor emerita of church in society at Asbury Theological Seminary. Her other books include Living into Community: Cultivating Practices That Sustain Us and Making Room: Recovering Hospitality as a Christian Tradition.