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Each moment of Shelia Stubbs’ day is guided by a deep, unwavering faith in God. Prayer is not a daily activity for Stubbs, it’s a throughout-the-day activity. She prays when she wakes up, before she makes phone calls, before she does interviews–it keeps her balanced. “It’s her faith that got her here. Her faith in God, her faith in people, her faith in family, but most of all trusting and believing in God and following her conscience, her heart,” said her husband, Godfrey Stubbs. Read more of this story.

SUN PRAIRIE, Wis. (WMTV) — A shelter in Sun Prairie is working to help homeless single mothers and their children have a safe place to stay as they work towards finding a home of their own. On Sunday evening, Shelter from the Storm Ministries hosted Hearts for the Homeless, a fundraising event to benefit the shelter.

Three private Christian schools in Dane County will join the state voucher program this fall after years during which only one private school in the county offered spots for students to attend using a taxpayer subsidy. Abundant Life Christian School and High Point Christian School in Madison and Westside Christian School in Middleton have signed up for the statewide voucher program in the 2019-20 academic year, expanding the options for income-eligible Dane County students to receive a public voucher to cover private school tuition.

Kraig Kalka and Ken Brown, neighborhood officers in the central police district, rolled slowly down State Street on Wednesday looking for anyone who might be homeless. But State Street, normally bustling with students and pedestrians on a Wednesday afternoon, was a ghost town of mostly shuttered restaurants and stores. On a normal winter day, Kalka and Brown see about a dozen homeless individuals. On Wednesday, as temperatures plunged below 20 degrees with wind chills in the negative 40s, they saw none. “The collaboration that has happened in the last couple of years between the city, all entities: The Beacon, First…

The bottom line is there’s a tremendous gap between how many international students there are and how many international students we are reaching. Most of them are not being reached. One out of 300 people living in the United States is an international student. People living in college towns like Madison, Wisconsin, have a great opportunity to make an international impact for the Gospel.

The audience gathered in the Capitol rotunda Monday for Wisconsin’s annual celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. fell silent as Bernice Parks accepted the annual MLK Heritage Award on behalf of her daughter. Sandra Parks was killed this March at the age of 13 by a stray bullet fired into her home in Milwaukee. She had previously won an MLK essay contest, which she used to write about gun violence. “Please, please, I’m begging you, don’t forget my baby,” Bernice Parks said through tears. “I still look at her picture and say, how could this have happened? I still…

If Daniel Weiss has learned anything about the small towns of east-central Wisconsin, it’s that folks in the region he calls home care about what they eat. Say buzzwords like “organic,” “natural” and “superfoods” and — snap — people will organize fairs, farmers markets, farm-to-table workshops and debates about whether local free-range chickens have healthy social lives. “You can talk about fresh veggies and how important food issues are for their families,” said Weiss, leader of the Brushfires Foundation, a sexual-integrity ministry based in Omro, Wisconsin. “People in a secular society will bond together to talk about food and good…

The Madison Diocese is considering an investigation to learn how many substantiated sexual abuse allegations there have been against priests and other clergy members after the Green Bay Diocese announced Thursday that more than 40 priests there had abused minors. Meanwhile, Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul may also be considering an investigation involving sexual abuse by clergy.

For the last three decades, the Rev. Bryan Sirchio has operated a freelance itinerant musical ministry. But recently the 60-year-old felt it was time be less “itinerant and more grounded in a local community.” Sirchio decided to ground himself at the McFarland United Church of Christ.

When members of United Methodist Church of Whitefish Bay toured a local school in Ghana, they were shocked to see that the school’s library did not have any books. The empty room was furnished with nothing but a couple desks, some chairs and several piles of pamphlets.