b'STAY THE COURSEHow to survive a media stormby Reid LehmanT he first articles appeared in the Greenville News in early 2018, alleging Miracle Hill Ministries (MHM) would not accept samesex couples as foster parents. Although no such couples had yet applied, it is true Miracle Hill recruits only Christian foster parents, and fostering couples must live consistent with MHMs doctrinal belief on marriage. The news stories spawned a federal lawsuit and within three months, more than 1,300 stories about Miracle Hill and this controversy ran across the country, most of them negative. Many of the facts reported were untrue.\x02SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2022 WWW.CITYGATENETWORK.ORG 31'