Author: Gordon Govier

Financial Gifts Help Advance $1.5 Million Capital Campaign These are exciting times for the students of Lighthouse Christian School. With the beginning of the new school year just weeks away, a $1.5 million renovation of Lighthouse Christian’s new location at 6400 Schroeder Road (the old Intervarsity building) is nearing completion, and seven area churches have already committed to the capital campaign. The gifts of these churches demonstrate growing support from area Christian communities to promote the mission of solving the achievement gap among low-income minority students.

Financial Gifts Help Advance $1.5 Million Capital Campaign These are exciting times for the students of Madison’s Lighthouse Christian School. With the beginning of the new school year just weeks away, a $1.5 million renovation of Lighthouse Christian’s new location at 6400 Schroeder Road (the old Intervarsity building) is nearing completion, and seven area churches have already committed to the capital campaign.The gifts of these churches demonstrate growing support from area Christian churches to promote the mission of solving the achievement gap among low-income minority students.

MILWAUKEE — For Nicole Sponseller, a getaway to Milwaukee has typically meant trips to the zoo, museums or maybe a Milwaukee Brewers game at Miller Park. The 85-mile trip from Madison’s West Side has never ended at 40th Street and Hampton Avenue in one of the city’s most challenged neighborhoods. Nicole, 15, a soon-to-be junior at West High School, is part of a youth group from Asbury United Methodist Church on Madison’s Far West Side that spent a recent week scraping, painting, climbing ladders and immersing themselves in a part of Wisconsin that many try to avoid.

A conversation featuring Alex Gee, pastor of Madison’s Fountain of Life Covenant Church, and Henry Sanders, publisher and CEO of Madison 365, talking about being Black in Madison, the Justified Anger movement, and much more.   More from Madison 365 at: http://madison365.com/.

Vern Visick came to the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus to serve an ecumenical Campus Ministry, centered at Pres House, with a Danforth Study special assignment to study religion and politics, and student development around spiritual and ethical issues. He worked there from 1975-1998, and earned the Francis Asbury award for “creativity in campus ministry programming” in 1996. While in Madison he helped organize and then led for fifteen years the Agenda for a Prophetic Faith in Madison, the largest and longest running series of lectures on religion and politics in the country. And he did a lot more. Vernon Mansell…

MADISON (WKOW) — A local long-term care center is hoping to grow into a Therapeutic Interactive Intergenerational Neighborhood (TIIN). The idea was born from founder Karin Krause’s life experience.  Krause is the RN Executive Director at Hope and a Future on Madison’s west side.  The adult family home has been a pet project of hers for a long time, she says. After she saw someone close to her being referred to as a room number instead of her name in a nursing home, Krause knew she wanted to go into healthcare and make a difference.  “I’m just a praying sort of person,…

Mr. Middleton.  The very best of our community.  The right Dad for MOM.  The kindest person you will ever meet.  Role model. A community hero, and friend. Those are just a few of the words that have been used to describe Al Ripp over the past weeks. Our hearts broke when we heard that Al Ripp, Executive Director of Middleton Outreach Ministry, passed away unexpectedly on June 14, 2017.

  A growing Christian school on Madison’s west side held a “building blessing” on June 22nd to mark the beginning of renovations to its first dedicated school building. Currently operating from Lighthouse Church at 5202 Regent St, Lighthouse Christian School plans to occupy 6400 Schroeder Road (formerly owned by InterVarsity Christian Fellowship) by the 2017-2018 school year.

Luria Sampson had plans Saturday morning, and they didn’t include prayer – not at first. Driving east down West Center Street in Milwaukee, he was on a course for his daughter’s house, his thoughts focused on her safety in a city suffering through a surge in shooting deaths. But when he slowed for the stoplight at 51st Street, an unexpected sight gently altered his morning travels. Sampson, 59, stopped his car, and prayer found its way into his plans.

Habitat for Humanity of Dane County volunteers have been busy this spring with new housing developments in the City of Fitchburg. On April 18, about 15 volunteers from the Navy Recruiting District Chicago worked on houses at 2504, 2508 and 2514 Equity Lane to help “build strength, stability and self-reliance through shelter for families,” according to a news release. On May 5, Steve Stricker and more than 150 employees and volunteers from American Family Insurance and The Steve Stricker American Family Insurance Foundation framed two Habitat homes, one of which will be located on Unity Lane in Fitchburg, with future…