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When city of Madison officials ask the local church community for help, that’s a unique situation. And almost an imperative to respond.That was the story Wednesday evening at the Madison Christian Giving Fund’s Ministry Marketplace Celebration, held at Turner Hall.Thirty-three local ministries were featured at tables around the marketplace. Attendees were invited to visit each table to find out how those ministries are impacting lives in Madison and “expose the good work being done in the community,” as emcee Fred Grossenbach put it.
Dallas Willard was a University of Southern California philosophy professor for 47 years, and a leading Christian author and speaker, until he died in 2013. But the six years that he spent in Madison, while working on his PhD in philosophy was foundational for his later ministry. Among his books, The Divine Conspiracy, was perhaps the most well-known, selected as Christianity Today’s Book of the Year in 1999. After he first arrived in Madison in 1959, Willard and his wife Jane were part of a Christian and Missionary Alliance congregation at 401 N. Blackhawk Avenue. That church building later became…
The Kingdom of God is advancing in Madison! But many of us don’t even know it. More than ever before, people like you and me are working together with Christian non profits, churches, and social service agencies to solve Madison’s toughest problems, many times at the invitation of community leaders! Issues like sex trafficking, immigration, racial injustice, disparities in education, homelessness, and hunger relief are impossible to solve without this community-transforming collaboration. This is a beautiful expression of the body of Christ. One body, different parts, serving and loving people and sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ, working…
They gathered for lunch and advice, for sharing experiences and gaining ideas. They were representing a wide spectrum of churches from across Dane County – mainstream and evangelical, large and small, well-established and just starting up. They were at Redeemer City Church in Fitchburg to learn about ways to partner with schools, to help students achieve success in the midst of all the challenges young people – and teachers – face in 2019.
Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul has no plans to end the department’s chaplain program created under his Republican predecessor despite a lawsuit filed against the initiative. Kaul told the Wisconsin State Journal he views the chaplain program as an important component of the Department of Justice’s wellness efforts for employees, downplaying concerns from a secular organization that the program is an unconstitutional violation of the separation between church and state and excludes atheists and non-believers from participating.
GREEN BAY, Wis. (WLUK) — Northeast Wisconsin Technical College violated a student’s First Amendment rights when it stopped her from handing out religious-themed Valentine’s Day cards, a federal judge ruled. “It’s been a long battle and I was very happy to see that the judge saw that the little messages on here are just like having a conversation saying have a good day,” said Polly Olsen. Olsen distributed the cards – with messages such as “Jesus Loves You!,” “You are Loved!,” and “You are never alone!” and Bible verses. A school security officer stopped her, citing the school’s Public Assembly…
A religious group that sparked protests in 2016 for providing free lunches to Middleton High School students with a dose of Christian scripture has expanded to schools in Madison and Verona. Students from those schools “asked us for a couple of years to do that,” said organizer Melissa Helbach after serving up pizza to about 30 Verona Area High School kids at Harriet Park, located two blocks from the school. On Monday, the group served about 20 kids at the city soccer fields located across Mineral Point Road from Madison Memorial High.
When Casey Johnson and Nathan Hobert five years ago were starting what is now Redeemer City Church in Fitchburg, they had a broad vision of what it could be. “We knew we wanted to be a church that was going to bless the community,” Johnson said. “We wanted to be very involved and we wanted to be Jesus incarnate in our city.” Now Redeemer City has its own building on the west side of Fitchburg in a neighborhood that is short on community resources. They have partnered with two elementary schools, helped create an afterschool-program for children in a neighborhood isolated…
The small wooden church is half-hidden, nestled on a hill in southeastern Wisconsin in the city of Delafield. St. John Chrysostom Episcopal Church was built in 1851, one of the historic “carpenter Gothic” churches surviving in the United States, and on the National Register of Historic Places. It’s such a quiet place residents often forget it’s there, though it was established by the pioneer founders of the city.
Watching her husband and other soldiers in the 1st Battalion, 128th Infantry of the Wisconsin Army National Guard’s 32nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team work through their deployment experiences in 2004, Jennifer Kuhnert realized faith and spirituality can play a valuable role in that transition. That was when she first recognized the call to be a chaplain.