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Brazil (MNN) ― What happens when missionaries go home on leave? Work usually stops until they get back, right? New Tribes Mission found a way around this in Brazil. Using a computer program called VSee, New Tribes missionary Barry Spor in Wisconsin can create Bible lessons in the Guanano language with a co-worker in Brazil.
The church on Madison’s Far East Side considers its nearly $7 million addition just one part of an ambitious two-year agenda.
The Rev. Philip Hougen, a former bishop of the southeastern Iowa synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, has been named interim bishop for the ELCA south-central synod of Wisconsin. He begins Wednesday. He takes over for Bishop Bruce Burnside, who has been charged with three felonies and one misdemeanor in the April 7 death of Maureen Mengelt of Sun Prairie, who was out for an afternoon run when she was struck and killed. Burnside is accused of hitting her while driving drunk.
Care Net Pregnancy Center of Dane County has secured state tax credit financing for a $6.4 million, 36-unit, mixed income housing project on the East Side, after failing to get financial support from the city of Madison.
Since making a plea for donations to help release a shipment of medical supplies stuck in an East African port, the Sun Prairie-based nonprofit Hope 2 Others has ratcheted up its plans for delivering health care to a poor region of Tanzania.
A distinguished Christian scholar wrestled with a conundrum of modern faith on the University of Wisconsin campus as part of the annual Geneva Forum lecture series. The question posed to Mark Noll, a professor of history at Notre Dame University and the author of The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind and other books, was “Christianity: Expanding Worldwide Yet Struggling in Universities. Why?”
Before the bombing in Boston and the explosion in Texas one of the top stories of the week, covered by most major media, was the death of singer George Beverly Shea. He died Tuesday, April 16, 2013, at the age of 104.I had interviewed Shea once, by telephone, almost ten years ago, and was surprised to hear him say Madison was “one of my favorite cities.”
madisonchristians.com was established to tell the story of Madison’s vibrant Christian community, particularly the evangelical Christian community. The activities of this coming weekend provide evidence of just how thriving that community can be here in “Mad City.”Our calendar shows a major conference at Blackhawk Church called Pulse, with a music focus Friday and Saturday. And a major speaker appearing on the UW campus Friday night, sponsored by Geneva Campus Church and InterVarsity. In addition, on the east side, there’s the monthly Friday night worship event called Gates of Glory at Living Waters Church in Sun Prairie.
The vitality of local private schools could help explain the muted level of interest in Madison for the publicly funded voucher expansion proposal in Governor Scott Walker’s biennial budget proposal…
A Janesville church plans to erect a 60-foot lighted steel cross where it will be visible from the freeway.