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What started as a small food drive to help those in need has generated more support than the members of Christ Church Episcopal in Whitefish Bay ever expected, bringing in more than 200 bags of food for a Milwaukee food pantry. The church’s outreach committee wanted to find a way to help residents in Milwaukee’s Harambee neighborhood, as St. Vincent de Paul had ended its meal program there due to coronavirus safety concerns. The meal program operates out of All Peoples Church, 2600 N. 2nd St, with which Christ Church has a partnership.

Gray skies and steady rain didn’t dampen the spirits of congregations around Wisconsin on Sunday as they gathered for the first time in two months after the state Supreme Court removed restrictions put in place to reduce the spread of COVID-19. “When I last stood here, I believe it was March 8, a Sunday morning, we had a very normal worship service that day,” said Dave Marriott, lead pastor at Lakewood Baptist Church in Pewaukee. “I never thought for a moment that it would be two solid months until we gathered again.”

“A changed world begins with us … and a changed us begins when we pray.” Eugene Peterson Collaboration Project’s mission is to foster collaboration between churches for good of our community to the glory of God and the flourishing of all people. Since founding, the primary way this mission was accomplished was by gathering groups of people together to share best practice, encourage one another, and seek out ways to work together in service to the most vulnerable around us. Then March began and everything changed. When COVID-19 overturned our way of living, it was no longer possible to come…

MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) — The state Supreme Court ruling striking down the “Safer at Home” extension statewide won’t end the restrictions in Dane County. Soon after the decision was handed down, Public Health Madison & Dane County issued a statement declaring health officials would use its own authority to issue an order that implements portions of the now-defunct Safer at Home order. Its new order will utilize all regulations enacted by the “Safer at Home” extension, except churches will be treated as essential businesses. That means they will be allowed to operate at 25 percent capacity.

“We’re all in this together.” This phrase is everywhere in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. But we can’t be together physically. So when the church thinks about collaboration during these times, what it looks like to “be in it together,” we need to get creative. Like other pastors, Pastor Dave Jacobson of City on a Hill Church looked at this unique moment and asked himself, “How can we leverage this opportunity?” That led to a creative, collaborative idea that may not have ever happened back when everything was “normal” – a multi-church online worship night. The United Night of Worship will feature…

Lynne Chase had heard about efforts Lighthouse Church was making to care for those affected by our pandemic and was on her way with some donations gathered by her own congregation, Christ Church Madison. As she was driving over there a few weeks ago, she wound up listening to Jon Anderson from the Collaboration Project interviewing Lighthouse Church Pastor Marcio Sierra, Jr. and Mt. Zion Baptist Pastor Marcus Allen about their newly-formed Psalm 46 Relief Fund. She said she just started to “get tingly” at the vision they were laying out.

MADISON (WKOW) — The Salvation Army is adjusting its services to help people in need during the COVID-19 pandemic. The organization continues its work in pandemic relief offering shelter to women and families, operating a feeding program with community partners, and providing relief supplies to those in need.

I hated Madison. My plan had been to stay in the DC area for the rest of my life. The only other suitable options would have been another major city rich with black culture. But as I’d searched for jobs, God had closed every door in Washington—and opened the door wide in Madison.

Last Wednesday, when Rev. Marcus Allen of Mt. Zion Baptist Church held a virtual Bible study, he expressed to his church family how much he missed seeing them. Right then, Gloria Ladson-Billings, the deacon at the church, knew she was going to do something special. That following Sunday, May 3, Ladson-Billings, who is a faculty member at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, brought together at least 70 congregation members to participate in a surprise parade in front of Allen’s home. Allen, his wife Terra Allen, and their three children stood outside on their lawn as more than 30 cars drove by…

As public schools shut down due to the COVID-19 outbreak, parents across the country find themselves homeschooling their children. For many, this is an eye-opening experience revealing exactly what their children are being taught at school. Parents in one school district had this epiphany well before the shutdown. And it wasn’t positive. When parents in Madison, Wisconsin learned that their children were being taught experimental theories about gender identity, they were understandably upset. Under a new school district policy, children as young as kindergarten were being exposed to the idea that gender “is a spectrum” and that you can choose…