Cover Story - Leaps of Faith

by Paul Singer and Brian Friel

Sat. Jan. 6, 2007


Charlie Reed is the director of Biblical Concepts in Counseling, an organization in Cheyenne, Wyo., that sounds like an unlikely place for the federal government to invest your tax money. But Reed's group, which has provided Bible-based marriage counseling to a hundred couples in the past year, got $5,000 from the Health and Human Services Department's "Compassion Capital Fund." The money paid for a computer, Web site design services, and a consultant to help the group draft a fundraising and growth plan.

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