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News Release (Madison WI) – More and more students are attending college but they are looking for more than just getting an education. InterVarsity’s mission on campus is to help students complete their search for meaning and purpose in life through a personal relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ. The number of students finding new faith in Jesus Christ through the witness of InterVarsity staff and students has increased by 30 percent over the past five years.
USA (MNN) ― It’s only been a few weeks, but already Madison-based InterVarsity Christian Fellowship is excited about a new season of ministry on college campuses around the United States. Vice President of InterVarsity Jim Lundgren says, “We’re on 557 campuses across the United States. We have 866 chapters that involve about 37,000 core students and faculty.”
Over the past year two east-side Madison churches, Mad City Church and Lake City Church, worked through a merger to become City Church (located at 4909 E. Buckeye Road). Church mergers may be a growing trend, according to an article in Christianity Today.
Our church, The Journey Community, has been meeting at Brittingham Park for the last three summers and for every challenge inherent in this decision, a blessing of equal value is apparent. We initially started meeting at the park out of necessity. Our regular meeting place (the Senior Center on Mifflin) was renovating, so we relocated for that summer. It was fun and new to begin with. Then the challenges started to become more obvious.
It’s not everyday you see a governor blush, rarer still when your grandmother is the cause of it. Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker commemorated the 20th anniversary of Family-PAC’s Boat Cruise in Chicago on Tuesday and I had an opportunity to sit down with him. I invited my grandparents down from Sauk County, Wisconsin to meet the man they had voted for.
It’s not everyday you see a governor blush, rarer still when your grandmother is the cause of it. Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker commemorated the 20th anniversary of Family-PAC’s Boat Cruise in Chicago on Tuesday and I had an opportunity to sit down with him. I invited my grandparents down from Sauk County, Wisconsin to meet the man they had voted for.
The Midwestern Gentleman website, based in Detroit, Michigan, last week profiled Cottage Grove resident and entrepreneur Kenton Sorenson. MWG was attracted to the craftsmanship of Kenton’s leather work, as well as his modesty and confidence (“qualities that separate a Midwestern man from his counterparts”). Setting him in the footsteps of Johnny Appleseed, Federick Pabst, and Frank Lloyd Wright, is pretty exclusive company. But Kenton’s modesty and confidence is not news to those of us at madisonchristians.com. MC was, after all, Kenton’s idea. It was his idea to use this website to provide a service to the Christian community of Madison. Kenton was the…
Although the sounds of rock music roared from a stage in Veterans Park on Saturday, it was easy to tell this was not a typical Milwaukee lakefront summer festival. If the Christian lyrics of the songs weren’t enough of a clue, the sign on a tent near the stage was the giveaway. The sign said, “Prayer.” At most summer festivals here, the sign would have said, “Beer.” There was no beer at the Rock the Lakes festival Saturday, but there was lots of spirit.
Despite all the affected teenage rebellion, I continued to call myself a Christian into my early twenties. When I finally stopped, it wasn’t because being a believer made me uncool or outdated or freakish. It was because being a Christian no longer meant anything. It was a label to slap on my Facebook page, next to my music preferences. The gospel became just another product someone was trying to sell me, and a paltry one at that.
Tod “Doc” Mishler — a 75-year-old itinerant evangelist on horseback — is gearing up for his next long-distance trek after being reunited with his three equine traveling companions and clearing one legal hurdle following his arrest by Madison police who said his horses appeared dehydrated and underfed.