josh mankiewicz: here's the congregation of christ community church in the mid '90s. the photo shows what looks like a group of happy people. there's nick and dawn, senior pastors bob and robert, and craig and annette anderson, who had joined christ community to be closer to god, but also to do the right thing for each other and their growing family. it seemed like a warm and welcoming place. josh mankiewicz: annette and craig remember that when they first moved here, christ community church was a joyous place, a place of warmth, spirituality, and family. annette anderson: we were having babies. we were having a lot of things in common at that time. and it filled a great thing, right away. nick hacheney: so i'm going to preach, but before we do that, i'm going to ask craig and annette anderson to come up with their children. josh mankiewicz: the youth pastor, nick hacheney, oversaw the church welcoming of annette and craig's new arrival, their daughter grace, in 1997. nick hacheney: well, this is a special morning. it's a special morning for me. this is my first solo b

church of christ. he was curious about finding ways his church community could do more for the midland community, so he your church? and so -- >> reporter: wait, you went right away from lunch to let's have our whole church come over to the presbyterian church? [laughs] >> you might ask steve, but yeah, kind of. [laughs] that's how it happened. >> reporter: in those post-pandemic years, the friendship grew to four, and then this fall, during an election season where they saw a divide in their city and the country, an idea developed to reach across their own, major denominational lines. who made that suggestion to switch pulpits, and did anybody hesitate? >> we all hesitated. [laughter] >> i don't know who. >> we believe that the word... >> reporter: denominations have built their foundations over centuries, with leaders taking great care not to undermine a church's beliefs. >> i was a little worried, maybe, not because i didn't trust alan, but because we'd never tried this before. this was a grand and beautiful experience. >> reporter: on a sunday morning in november... >> would y'all please help me gi

church of christ. he was curious about finding ways his church community could do more for the midland community. okay if our whole church comes to your church? >> reporter: wait, you went right away from lunch to let's have our whole church come over to the presbyterian church? >> you might ask steve, but yeah, kind of. that's how it happened. >> reporter: in those post pandemic years, the friendship grew to four. and then this fall, during an election season where they saw a divide in their city and the country, an idea developed to reach across their own major denominational lines. who made that suggestion to switch pulpits? and did anybody hesitate? >> i think we all hesitated. >> i don't know. [ laughter ] >> i don't know who. >> we believe that the word -- >> reporter: denominations have built their foundations over centuries with leaders taking great care not to undermine a church's beliefs. >> i was a little worried, maybe, not because i didn't trust allan, but because we never tried this before. this was a grand and beautiful experiment. >> reporter: on a sunday morning in november -- >>

community. >> all of these new industries in the city are bringing in new real estate developers. in the past most was backed by the church of jesus christre are there but a shrinking part of the market. we will have more on that on the big show tonight. >> one of my favorite wrinkles about this episode is this convergence between sports, real estate, retail, housing, right? entertainment. >> it's all of t i mean, what you are seeing that's so interesting is how sports is driving all of this. you saw it as he said in atlanta and you saw it in washington, d.c. thousands of residential units coming in, residential, retail sales, restaurants and it's driving the growth of not just the economy of the city, but actually the entire real estate development around t entire new neighborhoods. >> and a young demographic obviously helps. >> of course. >> to get that audience going. >> a young more diverse demographic. >> exactly. hope you will tune in. salt lake city, 10:00 p.m. eastern time. thanks. >>> next hour the ceo of mongodb breaking down results. that's in the 11:00 hour eastern. first, let's get to kate rooney in arizona with more on what

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