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Cally was desperately searching for medical care in September of 2020. She worried she might be pregnant and had no insurance coverage. And to make matters worse, the pandemic had made it incredibly difficult to access health care. “I called place after place. No one would see me. No one even offered help or suggested where I could go. ‘Sorry we can’t help you’ was what I heard every place I called. I was on my own and felt so alone. I can’t explain how desperate and afraid I felt.” Read the rest of this story. More stories about Care…

Alysin Amant, the Fitchburg Star – The City of Fitchburg will resume hosting meetings for local faith leaders at 8 a.m. on Tuesday, March 7, Mayor Aaron Richardson said during his report at the Common Council meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 10. The gatherings’ regular schedule was previously interrupted due to the pandemic. “It’s something where a bunch of our faith leaders, community members, a lot of staff and other officials are welcome to get together, talk about things they’re doing and try to coordinate where possible,” Richardson said. “We’ve done this for quite a while, but because of COVID, we…

By – Collaboration Project – For the second year, Leopold Elementary School has partnered with three local churches to support their students and families for Christmas. City on a Hill Church, along with the Church, and Christ Church hosted a Christmas Toy Shop on Tuesday, December 14, serving 50 families in the school community and neighborhood. Pastor Jeff Franklin of City on a Hill noted that the event was an unexpected blessing of the COVID-19 pandemic. Last year, with Madison public schools still closed, he was able to offer use of the church building to bring families in to shop…

By Marcio Sierra, pastor, Lighthouse Church – Hallelujah, the work of building a permanent food pantry at Lighthouse Church and Lighthouse Christian School Madison has officially started. We can’t wait for this space to be ready so that we can continue to serve more people in the community. Thank you Extended Hands Pantry for running this pantry and all the work that you have done to make this happen. We are happy to say that together, we have raised over 3/4 of the finances needed to complete this project. If you would like to invest in people through this great…

By Nicholas Garton – Capital Times – Ramiah Whiteside stood tall as a proud mentor of currently and formerly incarcerated people.  Whiteside, who volunteered in the restorative justice program run out of First Congregational Church of Christ in Madison, spent 25 years incarcerated in prison before getting out and paying forward the wisdom and tools he developed while inside. Whiteside knew what his presence meant to several of the current inmates who attend restorative justice groups and other related seminars. He was a beacon of hope for them because he embodied what they could become. Whiteside, who was taking classes…

A state-of-the-art $25,000 holiday light show at Sun Prairie’s Dunkin’ restaurant runs through the holiday season, all of the way to New Year’s Day. It’s a little bit of holiday self-promotion but it also is designed to benefit and bring awareness to The Elizabeth House. The Elizabeth House is a program of Care Net Pregnancy Center of Dane County, offering a home for young, single pregnant women wanting to make a new start and is provided at no cost to them. The Elizabeth House’s residential maternity program helps mothers build life skills and secure emploment, childcare, and housing. Their goal…

Daniela Jaime – Wisconsin State Journal – Imagine a Madison where the isthmus between lakes Mendota and Monona is a seeping wetland. Where cornfields stretch from Wisconsin Avenue to James Madison Park. Herds of deer gather on State Street, and waterfalls pour from Wiicawak Bay (formerly Squaw Bay) into the Yahara River. Before the first white settlers arrived in Madison in 1837, that imaginary place was real and called “Teejop” (“four lakes”) by the Ho-Chunk people, said Janice Rice, Clan Mother and Peacemaker of the Ho-Chunk Nation. Dozens of Indian mounds dotted the landscape, from Lake Mendota to Lake Kegonsa,…

A seminary-level preaching class – co-taught by two local pastors – is coming to Madison beginning this January. The class is being offered by the Madison Learning Community (MLC), an initiative of the University of Dubuque Theological Seminary. Beginning with this class, Proclaiming the Word of God, MLC will be offering one seminary-level course each semester to Madison-area pastors, church leaders, and others eager to deepen ministry skills. The faculty for this first preaching course will be Rev. Dr. Marcus Allen, pastor at Mount Zion Baptist Church, and Rev. Dr. Jessica Patchett, pastor at Christ Presbyterian Church. Both new and…

By Jim Polzin – Wisconsin State Journal – They are separated by only 14 yards rushing in the University of Wisconsin football record books. There’s Brent Moss at No. 9 in program history with 3,428 career yards and Terrell Fletcher one spot below him at 3,414 yards. There’s an entire generation of UW fans who either were not yet born or too young to appreciate the greatness of that special tandem. They may not know this: There was a time the Badgers had seven individual 1,000-yard rushing seasons; that number is now 35, a surge that began with Moss and…

By Gayle Worland – Wisconsin State Journal – If you’re tussling with a turkey and side dishes to serve to a Thanksgiving crowd — and are happy that you only do it once a year — just think about Michelle Ogilvie. Ogilvie, as a volunteer, cooks about 150 hot, full, hearty meals every week, then gives them all away. They go to feed people who are experiencing homelessness, often serving as their best meal of the day. Ogilvie does the meal planning, recipe-hunting, grocery shopping and all the cooking and baking in her Fitchburg home kitchen. On her days “off,”…