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The Southern Wisconsin Fellowship of Christian Athletes will be having our annual golf outing fundraiser on Tuesday, June 8, 2021 at The Bergamont Golf Club in Oregon, WI. Our Tournament Host this year to share his testimony of faith is two-time Master’s Champion and international golf star Bernhard Langer. This annual fundraiser benefits FCA to provide ministry to the coaches and student-athletes in our local public and private schools and colleges so that they can enter into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ and His church. For more information on registration and sponsorship opportunities, please visit https://fca.regfox.com/2021wigolfclassic or contact FCA…
A line of people waiting to get vaccinated against COVID-19 Sunday morning stood alongside a memorial outside Trinity United Methodist Church for those who have succumbed to the virus. For the Rev. Breanna Illéné, pastor of Trinity United Methodist, the feeling that image invoked was hope, after almost 13 months of death and uncertainty.
How many churches would love to grow their youth group? How many pizza nights, scavenger hunts, video games, and movies does it take to draw youth in? But what if your church hires a youth minister and in the first three years he takes the youth group from a respectable 30 to 40 kids down to 12. What do you do? What if you are that youth pastor?
Church partnerships can mean many things: a commitment to shared mission, denominational ties, shared space in a building. The partnership between Life Center Madison and Eglise Francophone de Madison—the French-speaking congregation of Madison—is remarkable in its origin and how it has transformed both congregations. Originally called Evangel Life Center, Life Center is located on the southeast side of Madison and is known for its diverse ministry and involvement in the community. Eglise Francophone de Madison had its beginnings in the Ivory Coast.
For the past 12 months, the threat of COVID-19 has forced the faithful to find creative solutions for practicing religion. Now, with Holy Week underway, ending with the arrival of Easter on Sunday, the area’s Christian community is drawing on that experience to uphold long-standing traditions, offer a variety of safe alternatives to adherents and — at some churches — host the first in-person services in more than a year.
MADISON — Wisconsin’s Catholic bishops have issued a letter urging the faithful to actively oppose H.R. 5, a federal bill that if signed into law would dramatically limit First Amendment freedoms, especially the free exercise of religion. Known as the Equality Act, H.R. 5 would alter provisions of the federal Civil Rights Act, adding “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” as categories of people protected from discrimination. The Catholic bishops of Wisconsin affirmed that “every person is made in the image of God and must be treated with respect and compassion. Individuals have a right to live free of discrimination or…
MADISON — “If you want to drain Christianity of its power, drain Sunday of its meaning and practice.” Recently Bishop Donald J. Hying of Madison has urged us to reclaim Sundays as a day for us to spend time nurturing our relationships with God, family, and friends. As the bishop says, they are meant to be “days free of servile work, dedicated to worship, prayer, time spent with family and friends, rest, study and works of charity.”
Bring your journey through Lent to a meaningful close by experiencing the events of Jesus’ last days. “Traveling with Jesus: Holy Week Drive Through” is a Covid-safe adaptation of our traditional Holy Week observances where you can drive your car through Bethel’s parking lot and see eight tableaus telling the story of the passion narrative in Mark’s Gospel.
As an institution, the Black church is the space in which we found a brief sanctuary from the ravages of slavery. It helped to secure living wages for us in urban centers at the turn of the 20th century. And it served as the headquarters for the Civil Rights Movement. However, in the last several decades, there have been attacks on the church that have been anything but harmless and good-natured. For years, the Black church has been the target of attacks in this country.
Over the course of the six hours of the Kingdom Justice Summit on Feb. 27, there were powerful expressions of lament about the experiences of Black people and other people of color. There were stirring challenges to action. Within those moments, though, there were also ideas for what churches and individuals could do to move the community closer to the kind of justice God envisions for our world. Here are a few of the ideas.