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Door Creek Church has adopted Schenk Elementary School on Madison’s East Side, committing to support its students and teachers materially, financially, and most importantly, with our time and energy. The needs at Schenk Elementary are great, and the exciting possibilities for Door Creek’s partnership are endless. Schenk is located in a neighborhood that is rapidly changing from predominantly middle-income to mostly lower-income. At the same time that schools across Madison have faced budget cuts, Schenk’s enrollment has increased dramatically, presenting special challenges to the teaching and administrative staff.
United States (MNN) — The India Children’s Choir of Bibles for the World is at the half-way point of this year’s tour. "These are really trophies of God’s grace–the fruit of missions, really," said Mawii Pudaite of Bibles for the World. The children are between ages 8-11 and are students from BFW’s missions schools in India. Most of them live in the hills of Manipur in Northeast India. Read more of this story.(The India Children’s Choir sang in Madison on Sunday.)
Walt Disney Productions has committed itself to The Chronicles of Narnia series, announcing that it will make all seven of the beloved books into featured films. Springboarding off the success of the debut film The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, the company will attempt to release one movie a year starting in May ’08 with the next installment being Prince Caspian.Read more of this story.
One month after the Vatican reasserted its claim that the Catholic Church is the one true church, Milwaukee’s Catholic auxiliary bishop is about to find himself in what some might assume would be an uncomfortable position – addressing more than 1,000 Lutherans.Read more of this story.
FRONT ROYAL, VA (ANS) — Christians continue to be martyred abroad, but few American believers are aware of how pervasive religious persecution is around the world. “Christians in this nation don’t realize how fortunate they are to live in the U.S.,” observes Jim Jacobson, president of Christian Freedom International (CFI).Read more of this story.
Religion now looms larger than economic class as a source of political division.The United States is the world’s most religious advanced industrial nation. More Americans say they believe in God, go to church regularly, and take the Bible literally than do people in any other Western country. The explanation lies in U. S. history. Many people came to colonial America seeking religious freedom after having been at odds with the state church in their home countries. The immigrants’ religious traditions, which stressed piety and personal salvation, have flourished.Read more of this story.
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America will again face the potentially volatile issues of same-sex blessings and whether to allow people who are in committed, homosexual relationships to serve in ministry when 1,071 voting members gather for its national assembly Aug. 6 to 11 in Chicago.Read more of this story.
The gestures are sweet, but modest:One husband carried his wife’s purse. Another made his wife breakfast. And another taped a note to her mirror telling her he liked her haircut.Nothing earth-shattering there. And yet the Roman Catholic Church is counting on publicizing these small acts of everyday kindness to revitalize the institution of marriage.Read more of this story.
With humor, chutzpah and heart, the Oprah-like inspirational road show, Women of Faith, integrates "girl talk" with the spiritual walk.Read more of this story.
Pamela Moss worships every Sunday at Messiah Baptist Church in Grand Rapids, Mich., where they preach the Bible straight up, sing the old hymns "and then let me get on with my day."But her son, George, 24, is a fervent Evangelical, witnessing to strangers and praying "in a church that looks like a gym. To me, he’s just out the gate," his mystified mom says. Read more of this story.