Aron Ranen

Aron Ranen is a journalist with the Associated Press.

Racial Unity Still a Focus Years After N.C. Church Merger

In 2016, The Refuge Church, a mostly white multisite congregation, merged with a predominantly Black church and hired its pastor, the Rev. Derrick Hawkins, to its ministry staff.

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