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One day, you’re trying to refurbish a building on South Ingersoll Street that once was an upholstery shop, but had fallen into disrepair. Next thing you know, the renovated building, called Luke House, has served millions of free meals, provided with help from thousands of volunteers through the Community Meal Program, and three decades have come and gone. “How did that happen?” Paul Ashe said this week.
MADISON, Wis — A local organization that is run completely through donations has been providing mothers who are going through a rough patch in their lives a safe place to stay with their baby. “Jennifer,” a young mother, spent some time at the Elizabeth house because she found out her father’s house was facing foreclosure. She wanted to find a place for herself and her unborn child.
On Friday May 8th an unprecedented meeting of faith leaders was held in the Madison Urban Ministry offices. We came together over the systemic injustices that exist in our County and out of concern for our community. We know that as clergy and people of faith we are called across traditions to work for justice. Our meeting on May 8th represents the beginning of our work as a faith coalition, we recognize that there is much, much more to be done and we pledge to continue Tomorrow, Tuesday, May 12th at 2:30 p.m. the District Attorney will announce his decision regarding the officer involved shooting…
Gov. Scott Walker told a heavily — if not exclusively — Christian crowd gathered at the Italian Community Center in Milwaukee Thursday to go out and share their faith with the world, and to pray for their leaders in government and business regardless of party or position. “Always pray for our leaders so that God’s will will be followed rather than their own,” he said. Walker spoke at the annual Governor’s Prayer Breakfast, organized by the West Allis-based Christian publishing nonprofit ProBuColls Association.
The National Day of Prayer observance at the Wisconsin capitol drew about 100 men and women over the noon hour today, and consisted of more than just prayers. “We are praying with an ear to hear what the Lord has to say to us,” said Joleen Helbig, Wisconsin National Day of Prayer State Coordinator.Those present included lawmakers, businessmen and women, clergy, and others who are concerned about the strength of our state and national spiritual foundation. Also present was someone who may, in the long run, help change the spiritual climate in Wisconsin’s legislature.
The final words of a dying Christian father of three fatally shot during a Sunday walk with his family on a Wisconsin trail bridge were, “forgive the shooter,” his wounded wife has revealed. Erin Stoffel, 32, woke from a coma with a breathing tube in her throat on Tuesday just two days after she and her husband of more than a decade, Jonathan, 33, and their 11-year-old daughter, Olivia, were shot during a random attack on the Trestle Trail Bridge in the city of Menasha. While Erin survived the shooting, Jonathan and Olivia did not, and the first thing that…
In summer 2010, McFarland United Church of Christ went into “turnaround” mode. Founded in 1967 with its current home built in 1985, the church faced dwindling attendance and financial giving as well as diminished hope. State UCC officials matched an energetic new Janesville pastor, Kerri Parker, with the congregation. They clicked.
(Madison, WI) — InterVarsity Christian Fellowship is moving our national office on the west side of Madison to 635 Science Drive. The move this month is the eighth in InterVarsity’s 74-year history and is prompted once again by the growth of InterVarsity’s ministry—now with 949 chapters on 616 college and university campuses across the U.S.
Sonam Dolma with her son, Tenzing Teleay, 20, left, attend the blessing of their Habitat for Humanity home on the North Side of Madison, Wis., Friday, May 1, 2015. This is the 15th home that has been built since the UW-Madison Habitat for Humanity of Dane County Chapter was founded in 1993.
Few things are as central to understanding Scott Walker as his relentless political calculus and his evangelical Christian faith. Those two facets of the governor are coming together as never before in his all-but-certain bid for the 2016 GOP presidential nomination. They will be on full display Saturday when the two-term governor joins fellow would-be presidential candidates at the Iowa Faith & Freedom Coalition 2015 Spring Kickoff. So far, Walker’s folksy mix of faith and politics has resonated with evangelical Christian voters, a key constituency for Republican candidates.