Courtesy of Carla Crudup
Held on September 30, 2025, from 6 pm to 7:30 pm, the Amazing Grace & Resource Fair event was a raging success, and the Christian Fellowship Congregational Church was bulging at the seams that evening with pastors, congregations, law enforcement and various community members. The Amazing Grace Subcommittee was established to address the high substance overdose death rate amongst certain populations within the County of San Diego. Presently, the highest overdose death rate is within the African American population. Both our Hispanic and Native American communities have an elevated overdose death rate.
The Subcommittee first established a “Train the Trainer” event amongst pastors only on July 30th, 2025. Thereafter, the pastors shared their experience with their re