Tanks

About to go to prison, and now has a church

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Reach City Church is a church plant led by Pastor Leonard Tanks (interviewee in video) that is located in the Hough neighborhood on Cleveland's east side. 

Ever since moving out of Hough when he was little to a surrounding suburb, Pastor Tanks has wanted to move back to Hough. After giving his life to Jesus in the midst of a court trial, he has been dreaming and praying towards planting a church in this neighborhood, a community where 49.1% of the people are poor. As Pastor Tanks says, "it's not a sustainable place, but it's a statistically ripe place for the gospel".

Pastor Tanks and his team went through BHITC's Transform216 (T216) Church Planting Bootcamp in 2019 and now Reach City Church is LIVE and located at 2310 Superior Ave. in Cleveland.

God is doing so much through him and his core team! Through the strategic planning and mentoring provided by BHITC's T216 Bootcamp, they're feeling more equipped and supported to move forward in what God has called their team into.