"For Nylton Andrade, preventing home foreclosures is not just a personal priority. It’s a matter of religious faith.

Andrade, who was laid off from a teaching job at Boston’s Madison Park High School in June, is hoping to save his family’s house in Brockton after falling behind on mortgage payments. But the evangelical Christian is also part of a faith-based effort to prevent foreclosures for millions of others across the United States."