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News Release – For Immediate Release Registration Deadline is March 4, 2011 – Extended to March 10! Register Now! Funding Your Vision in the New Economy (Madison, WI) — A one-day workshop to orient Madison-area non-profit organizations and churches to the prospects of the post-recession economy will be held Friday, March 11th, sponsored by madisonchristians.com. The workshop is open to Executive Directors, Pastors, Development Directors, Board members, and volunteers. The workshop will be led by Jerry Twombly, who has almost 40 years of experience working with non-profits. He is associated with BGW Development Group, an International Development Consulting Firm. (http://bgwservices.com/)…
Green Bay Packers defensive lineman Ryan Pickett, who will be playing against the Pittsburgh Steelers in the Super Bowl, will appear that same day in a video message showing his support for a nationwide church event dealing with porn. Pickett and his wife Jennifer, who sits on the board of directors for XXXchurch.com – a ministry which helps people struggling with porn and sexual addictions – are shown in a welcome video for National Porn Sunday that will be played in over 300 churches on five continents on Feb. 6.
Aaron Rodgers, the quarterback of the Green Bay Packers, has left little doubt that he is a great leader. Yet there is another side of Aaron Rodgers—that of a quiet leader in his personal life.
Two opening night receptions Friday night drew art fanciers downtown on a frigid winter evening. Besides offering a glimpse at the artistic talents of local residents, the receptions also offered insights into an active community of Christian artists that exists in the Madison area.
To help teens translate good intentions into real life abstinence, Care Net of Dane County is re-launching its LifeWise abstinence education program to come alongside parents and churches to help them discuss sexuality with teens and effectively promote sexual abstinence. Recent changes in the Wisconsin sex education law have now made the mission of LifeWise even more critical.
You can find Jenny Czerkas at The River Food Pantry on Madison’s north side just about every day of the week. “It’s the best job I’ve ever had,” said Jenny Czerkas. Andy, Jenny’s husband, is by her side at least 30 hours a week. Andy is an instructor at MATC. He will retire in a couple of years and join Jenny full time.
Nikki Toyama-Szeto is Urbana Program Director in InterVarsity’s Missions Department and a Madison resident. She oversees the development of programming for InterVarsity’s triennial Urbana Student Missions Conference. Prior to joining the Urbana team, Nikki was involved in InterVarsity’s campus ministry at the University of California-Berkeley, Stanford, and the University of San Francisco. She is also co-editor of the InterVarsity Press book, More Than Serving Tea: Asian American Women on Expectations, Relationships, Leadership and Faith. On Monday, January 17, 2011, Nikki marked the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday by speaking at Calvin College. Her talk was part of Calvin’s January Series,…
A centuries old relic has been discovered in a Bonduel church, northwest of Green Bay, tucked away for decades. No one realized it was even there, or what it was.In a cramped, rarely seen safe, no bigger than a kitchen pantry, at St. Paul Lutheran Church are heaps of old books and pamphlets. Many of which are more than 100 years old and in foreign languages.
“But Nineveh has more than a hundred and twenty thousand people who cannot tell their right hand from their left, and many cattle as well. Should I not be concerned about that great city?” Jonah 4:11 [NIV] God is at work in the city of Madison, just as He was a work in the city of Nineveh. We catch glimpses of His activity in our churches. But there’s much more going on.
Believers from many faiths filled a 600-seat Monona Terrace ballroom Monday for an inauguration-related prayer breakfast that stressed shared humanity over political differences.