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MADISON, Wis (WMTV) – Members of the Madison community and beyond are still grieving the loss of UW-Madison Assistant Basketball Coach Howard Moore’s wife and nine-year old daughter, who died in a car crash over the weekend Howard and Jennifer Moore’s heart for their children, Jaidyn and Jerrell and for others, showed in their dedication to the community. The family’s pastor, Matt Metzger of Blackhawk Church Downtown, said the Moore’s attended there for around three years and their selfless love for others was apparent.

A ’57 Chevy had a prominent role in the sermon by Bob Lenz at the sixth annual community worship service at Brat Fest. Lenz is the founder of Life Promotions, which not only sponsors the Lifest Christian music festival in Oshkosh every July, but also his Dignity Revolution campaign in the nation’s public schools. Lifest also sponsors one of Brat Fest’s three music stages for the Sunday schedule to showcase Christian bands and musicians. Adjacent to the Christian music stage and new this year was the Ministry Marketplace tent, sponsored by the Madison Christian Giving Fund. More than a dozen…

The Salvation Army of Dane County is restarting a bid to redevelop its current building and perhaps surrounding properties on the Near East Side for a roughly $25 million project that would deliver a new homeless shelter, transitional housing units with support services, and income-based and non-subsidized apartments. The nonprofit Salvation Army, which operates two distinct homeless shelters in its current building, the former St. Patrick’s Catholic School at 630 E. Washington Ave., had introduced preliminary redevelopment plans for that site in 2016, but pulled back as it worked with its regional hierarchy.

After four-and-a-half years, Redeemer City Church finally has a place to call its own. “It’s a great space,” Nate Hobert, one of the congregation’s two pastors, said. On April 14, the church held its first service at its new-to-them building at 5356 King James Way, former home of a design company, after being hosted at Chavez Elementary since its inception in 2015.

CHICAGO (RNS) — Lutherans are speaking out and gathering in prayer after a student pastor at a church in Racine, Wis., was arrested last week by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Betty Rendón, who came to the United States from Colombia, was arrested by ICE on May 8 after her application for asylum was rejected. Rendón is a lay minister in the mainline Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, according to the denomination’s presiding bishop, the Rev. Elizabeth Eaton.

It’s two o’clock on a Monday afternoon and Roger Baker is online. He’s not checking the weather forecast or how the Bucks did last night. He’s looking for young men and women who are being trafficked in the Madison area. On that particular Monday, Baker, a detective with the Madison Police Department, found nearly 300. “It’s hard to know how many people are trafficked any given day,” Baker said. “It used to be on a street level—and it still is in some bigger cities—but here it tends to be online. And even though we’re looking for them and trying to…

On the first Thursday of May believers across our nation will gather and mobilize unified prayer for America. This year’s theme is “LOVE ONE ANOTHER” based on John 13:34. We are praying the love of God would permeate every sector of society and bring about godly transformation in the areas of government, military, media arts, business, education, church, family and for the next Great Spiritual Awakening in America. I, Joleen Helbig, WI National Day of Prayer State Coordinator invite you to join us in Madison, host your own prayer time, or attend one locally. The Madison National Day of Prayer…

Bishop Donald Hying has been named by Pope Francis to lead the Madison Diocese, succeeding the late Bishop Robert Morlino, who died in November, the Madison Diocese announced in a news release Thursday morning. Hying, 58, comes from the Gary, Ind., Diocese, where he has served as bishop since January 2015. Hying is a West Allis native and was ordained a priest in Milwaukee in 1989.

Katherine Hayhoe loves to talk about Jesus, which is not unusual for someone who was raised in an evangelical family and is married to a pastor. She also loves to talk about climate change, which is natural for an atmospheric scientist who directs the Climate Science Center at Texas Tech University. When she speaks she often combines the two topics, as she did last week at Upper House, on the University of Wisconsin campus. Which meant that a very religiously diverse audience heard a compelling Christian testimony, along with some compelling information on climate change. Her talk was co-sponsored by…

I was blessed with a surprise visit from Abdul and Jamal on Saturday. They had driven up from Chicago, Friday night and wanted to see me while they were in town. We met together for two hours at a coffee shop and were joined briefly by their brother Muhammad and his wife. Abdul and Jamal had viewed the two video links I’d sent them. One shared the faith journey of Al Fadi from Fundamentalist Islam to faith in Jesus. The other shared the faith journey of Nabeel Qureshi. They had never heard such testimonies before and were quite intrigued by…