Early on Sunday mornings, while it's still dark outside, a line begins to form outside Nast Trinity United Methodist Church in Over-the-Rhine. Big urns of coffee brew, gallons of orange juice chill, hundreds of eggs are scrambled.

        Breakfast is served to the homeless members of Nast Trinity's community. Sunday worship has begun.

        Nast has been in Over-the-Rhine for more than 150 years. As the neighborhood has changed, and facets of the church have changed, its reason for being hasn't, says Jerome J. Manigan, a member of the congregation.

        Mr. Manigan says Nast Trinity tries to keep up with the times, to keep up with Over-the-Rhine's needs.

        Recently he and pastor Bruce Hinckley facilitated a United Methodist District conference on race and class issues. Early in September, the church participated in a community-wide dialogue on racial problems that was televised. And, since the unrest following the fatal shooting of Timothy Thomas, church leaders have walked the streets and prayed for their community.

        Sunday services begin with the 8 a.m. breakfast, then devotions, worship and fellowship. Whites, blacks, Hispanics are represented in the congregation.

        There are traditional hymns and spirituals like “Amazing Grace” and “I'll Fly Away,” and some more contemporary, even reggae-flavored, tunes performed by the Nast Trinity Group.

        “Before the morning is over, hundreds of Cincinnati's dispossessed will find ... food for their bodies and nourishment for their souls,” Mr. Manigan said.

        “They will leave knowing that they are valued and seen as an important part of God's kingdom.”

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