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Elsewhere in today’s newspaper, you can read about a new community effort to reopen the People’s Clinic, a defunct agency that served the health needs of people without resources for medical care. Pay heed to how the effort proposes to fund a reopened clinic, because it puts the fiscal responsibility right where people of faith gather.

The steering committee for the reopening drive has sent letters to 225 churches in Texarkana, seeking funds for an operating budget that would allow the People’s Clinic to reopen next spring. Organizers want to be sure they have adequate financing to...