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Young Christian leaders from around the world listened to a mission expert present about the rapid growth of evangelicalism, especially in the global South, at a Lausanne gathering in Malaysia this week. Jason Mandryck – co-author of the mission prayer guide Operation World – presented on the status of the Christian faith around the world Tuesday during the plenary session “State of the Gospel” at the Younger Leaders Gathering. Read More.
October is Clergy Appreciation Month. This month we will be profiling some of Madison’s memorable pastors. This article by Eileen Hocker focuses on several pastors, past and present.It was the early 1970s. Madison had a one percent ethnic minority community. Midvale Baptist Church, a small church on Madison’s Westside, wanted to reach out to the African American community.“I remember this guy named Dave, and his driver, who came through the community every Saturday to see who was coming,” said Rev. Alex Gee, pastor of Fountain of Life Family Worship Center. “Then on Sundays the bus came. It was called the Happy…
News Release (MADISON, WI) – Members of the historic First Congregational Church will pound the first nail and kick off construction of a new Habitat for Humanity of Dane County home in the Twin Oaks Subdivision in Madison this Saturday, October 7, 2006.
News Release(Madison, WI) – On Monday, October 2, 2006, the InterVarsity Christian Fellowship chapter at the University of Wisconsin-Superior filed suit in federal court against the President of the University of Wisconsin, Kevin Reilly; the University of Wisconsin system; the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents; UW-Superior Chancellor Julius Erlenbach; and UW-Superior Dean of Student Life Stewart Platner. InterVarsity Christian Fellowship-UW Superior (InterVarsity-Superior) is the local, student-run chapter of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA (IVCF). InterVarsity is asking the UW-Superior to reinstate the chapter and allow all InterVarsity chapters on UW campuses to use religious criteria for the selection of chapter officers.…
Hollywood pundits and advertisers on Madison Avenue like to tell the press that sex and nudity sells best, but nothing could be further from the truth. For example, we recently completed a ten-year study of the theatrical box office at MOVIEGUIDE®. We discovered that Hollywood movies with strong Christian worldviews make far more money than movies with explicit sex and nudity. In fact, Christian movies make two to seven times as much money, and often four to six times as much money, as movies with explicit sex and nudity. The study is based on an analysis of nearly 2,700 of…
When the young Muslim men came to ask Rev. Victor Mosele to help them start an Islamic Youth Center across the street from his Roman Catholic church in Sierra Leone he wondered what their imam would say about that. "But father," they replied, the imam was the one who told us you could help us."
These are exciting days for the Christian church, although the most exciting things are happening in Africa and Asia rather than the U.S. and Europe, according to Lamin Sanneh, a Professor of Missions and World Christianity at Yale University. Sanneh was the morning plenary speaker on the final day of the What Next Conference, a prayer and missions gathering convened here in Madison to mark the bicentennial of the Haystack Prayer Meeting, that launched the North American Missions movement.
There are a couple of churches you can find in Madison that have been converted from their original purpose and are now a restaurant or have been remodeled into apartments. In Andrew Walls’ hometown of Edinburgh, Scotland, church after church is now a store, a night club or a drinking hall. "No one needs them anymore as churches," he says.
While several hundred students formed lines outside of the Kohl Center to purchase Badger basketball tickets last night, another hundred or so were at St. Paul’s Catholic Center on Campus, worshipping God and learning about Student Power in World Missions. The presentation was given by David Howard, former missionary and former missions director for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. It was the second evening of the What Next Conference, marking the 200th anniversary of the Haystack Prayer Meeting.
MADISON — A full house of about 1,000 people filled The Capital Theater at the Overture Center in downtown Madison on September 19 to hear a speech by Archbishop Paul Josef Cordes, president of the Vatican agency, Cor Unum, which oversees the pope’s ministry of charity. Read more.