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Lifestyle/Technology: Volunteer chaplain corps brings peace to Detroit schools | Susan Olasky

Brandy Baker/The Detroit News

For 44 years John H. Jordan ran Jordan Enterprises, a barber shop/beauty parlor/beauty supply/restaurant one block from Detroit's Northwestern High School. He cut hair for Motown greats like Barry Gordy and Aretha Franklin. His business survived the 1967 riots.

Now 82 years old and for the past 19 years the pastor of "Let Them Come Ministry," a church he founded in Detroit, Jordan is embarked on a new mission in his old neighborhood: bringing peace into the Detroit Public Schools.

It started last year when the school system decided to close some schools and bus kids from one side of Detroit into schools on the other side. He remembers: "Society said it wouldn't work . . . it would be a bloodbath. . . . We asked, 'What could we do as ministers to curb the tension that children would bring in from other schools?'"