Instead of going home after a long night at a Dec. 10 Fort Worth City Council meeting that gave Mercy Culture Church the green light to build a shelter for human trafficking survivors, lead pastors Landon and Heather Schott went to church.
More specifically, the couple visited the fire pit they anticipate will be part of the altar in the chapel of The Justice Residences. The Justice Reform, a nonprofit and “housed vision” of the church, plans to build 100 beds for survivors on the church’s property northeast of downtown, just off Interstate 35W.
Now, five months later, the Schotts revisited the site alongside hundreds of congregants, county leaders and attendees for the shelter’s May 9 groundbreaking ceremony. The pair serve as public faces of the Fort Worth-based megachurch, which frequently earns headlines for its outspoken political views…