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It's interesting because really in Reading is sort of a tale of two markets.

You know, there's everyone within the Bethel bubble who tends to go to their own coffee shop

and to attend, you know, their own Saturday outdoor market.

You can go to a Saturday outdoor market and you literally will only see people in their

hipster clothing, you know, worship music playing in the background from a live band.

You go down the street to another market.

It's a completely different crowd.

It's the local Reading crowd.

There's no worship music.

There's no hipster clothes.

There's just fresh roots and vegetables.

So it's sort of like there's actually two alternate markets happening.

And this is one of the things that people are concerned about.

Yes, Bethel is bringing in new life and new blood and new dollars.

But how many of those dollars are actually just circulating within members of the church?

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I'm Tara Jean Stevens.

Episode 2.

The City of Reading.

As I settle into this exploration of Bethel Church in Redding, California, what I'm quickly realizing is that as much as this season is about a church and its people,

it's also about the growing influence and impact that this church has on the city itself. So on this episode,

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