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By Tom Lin – InterVarsity Christian Fellowship – If you were in an InterVarsity chapter in college, you know InterVarsity focuses on developing student leaders who follow Jesus as Lord and see their campus as a mission field. But doing this for the current student generation, Gen Z, has seemed like a daunting challenge for some. How do you equip an un-churched generation that struggles with mental health into Christian leadership? Besides leading InterVarsity, I’m also a father of two Gen Z daughters. And I want to say at the outset, this generation has the curiosity, the heart, and the…
By Dcn. Kaitlyn Wallett – For the Collaboration Project – I moved to Madison in 2018 to help plant Christ Church Madison, having no connections in the city outside our little church plant community. I’d been on staff at our sending church for the last four years, alongside nearly two dozen incredible brothers and sisters, spiritual moms and dads, serving our congregation of 1000+, where I had worshiped since my first year of college. The shift to a brand new city, and a baby church with a two-person staff team was exciting, but also felt really isolating. I arrived in…
By Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra – The Gospel Coalition – Kenosha Christian Academy was supposed to be a church plant. “Throughout seminary, I had a growing desire to do ministry in a hard place,” said Justin Denney. After finishing his MDiv at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (TEDS), he came on staff at Crossway Community Church in Bristol, Wisconsin, as a church planting resident in 2018. Crossway knew exactly where they wanted him to go—into the Wilson neighborhood of nearby Kenosha, where they’d been running an after-school program for the past eight years. Read the rest of this story.
By Olivia Herken – Wisconsin State Journal – A new private Christian school will open in Verona in the fall of 2024 after the City Council reconsidered a rezoning request that had been denied in January. Impact Christian Schools plans to open the high school in the top floor of the Verona Athletic Center, 411 Prairie Heights Drive, in what had been a banquet space that has gone mostly unleased, Impact Christian Executive Director Charles Moore said. The space fits Impact’s desire to have a private school near Madison’s West Side and already includes a large kitchen and plenty of…
By Pamela Cotant – Wisconsin State Journal – Students at Holy Cross Lutheran School get a chance to play a musical instrument that most schools don’t teach. The seventh- and eighth-graders take a handbell music class for most of the school year. They sometimes play at regular church services at Holy Cross Lutheran Church or at chapel services and at other occasions. “I realized we are kind of lucky,” eighth-grader Isaac Abraham said. Read more of this story.
Madison WI (March 22, 2023) –What started in 2006 with one school, one teacher and twelve children, has now become a network of schools in Haiti that serve over 1,900 Haitian children and over 170 Haitian staff in nine schools. Madison business owners Doug and Lois Fearing, of Fearing’s Audio Video Security, became involved with Schools for Haiti in 2014. In addition to supporting individual children through child sponsorships, they host the Schools for Haiti Gala annually to raise funds for the non-profit. The 9th Annual Schools for Haiti Fundraising Gala & Silent Auction will take place on Saturday, April…
By Melissa Perry – Wisconsin State Journal – The largest Methodist congregation in Dane County has voted to break from the United Methodist Church over disagreements regarding gay marriage and gay leadership, leaving people on both sides of the vote brokenhearted and dismayed at the rupture in their church. Members of Asbury United Methodist Church, 6101 University Ave., voted 224-76 Sunday to separate from the denomination. In order to disaffiliate from UMC, two-thirds of those in attendance needed to vote to leave. Read more of this story.
We are sad to read of the passing of Rebecca Blank, who was chancellor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 2013 to 2022. She died of cancer on Friday, February 17, 2023. She was 67. The report of her death included acknowledgement of her skillful service as a gifted administrator and economist. It also noted that “Blank’s Protestant faith influenced other books she wrote, such as ‘Do Justic’ and ‘Is the Market Moral?’, which examined intersections between economics and religious belief systems.” Her father, also an economist, was a founder of Habitat for Humanity in Columbia, Missouri. “The desire to…
MADISON, Wis. (Channel3000.com) — St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church was Madison’s first Black church. It was founded by a former Kentucky slave in 1902 when only 69 of the city’s 27,600 residents were Black. Ever since, it has been a center of Madison’s Black community. “I was from Arkansas, and I know what segregation was all about—colored and white fountains and water—but then when I came to Madison, you almost had the same thing,” Myzell Alexander, a member of the church since 1961, said. It was the church, though, that gave him refuge. Read more of this story.
MADISON (WKOW) — Actions spoke louder than words at Westwood Church in Madison Sunday as Pastor Adam Tomlinson cut his hair to donate to charity in front of his congregation. So, when his mother-in-law was diagnosed with breast cancer, lost her hair and had to buy a wig, he decided he wanted to grow his hair out to donate to others on similar journeys. 18 months later, he did. Read more of this story.