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After four-and-a-half years, Redeemer City Church finally has a place to call its own. “It’s a great space,” Nate Hobert, one of the congregation’s two pastors, said. On April 14, the church held its first service at its new-to-them building at 5356 King James Way, former home of a design company, after being hosted at Chavez Elementary since its inception in 2015.
CHICAGO (RNS) — Lutherans are speaking out and gathering in prayer after a student pastor at a church in Racine, Wis., was arrested last week by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Betty Rendón, who came to the United States from Colombia, was arrested by ICE on May 8 after her application for asylum was rejected. Rendón is a lay minister in the mainline Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, according to the denomination’s presiding bishop, the Rev. Elizabeth Eaton.
It’s two o’clock on a Monday afternoon and Roger Baker is online. He’s not checking the weather forecast or how the Bucks did last night. He’s looking for young men and women who are being trafficked in the Madison area. On that particular Monday, Baker, a detective with the Madison Police Department, found nearly 300. “It’s hard to know how many people are trafficked any given day,” Baker said. “It used to be on a street level—and it still is in some bigger cities—but here it tends to be online. And even though we’re looking for them and trying to…
On the first Thursday of May believers across our nation will gather and mobilize unified prayer for America. This year’s theme is “LOVE ONE ANOTHER” based on John 13:34. We are praying the love of God would permeate every sector of society and bring about godly transformation in the areas of government, military, media arts, business, education, church, family and for the next Great Spiritual Awakening in America. I, Joleen Helbig, WI National Day of Prayer State Coordinator invite you to join us in Madison, host your own prayer time, or attend one locally. The Madison National Day of Prayer…
Bishop Donald Hying has been named by Pope Francis to lead the Madison Diocese, succeeding the late Bishop Robert Morlino, who died in November, the Madison Diocese announced in a news release Thursday morning. Hying, 58, comes from the Gary, Ind., Diocese, where he has served as bishop since January 2015. Hying is a West Allis native and was ordained a priest in Milwaukee in 1989.
Katherine Hayhoe loves to talk about Jesus, which is not unusual for someone who was raised in an evangelical family and is married to a pastor. She also loves to talk about climate change, which is natural for an atmospheric scientist who directs the Climate Science Center at Texas Tech University. When she speaks she often combines the two topics, as she did last week at Upper House, on the University of Wisconsin campus. Which meant that a very religiously diverse audience heard a compelling Christian testimony, along with some compelling information on climate change. Her talk was co-sponsored by…
I was blessed with a surprise visit from Abdul and Jamal on Saturday. They had driven up from Chicago, Friday night and wanted to see me while they were in town. We met together for two hours at a coffee shop and were joined briefly by their brother Muhammad and his wife. Abdul and Jamal had viewed the two video links I’d sent them. One shared the faith journey of Al Fadi from Fundamentalist Islam to faith in Jesus. The other shared the faith journey of Nabeel Qureshi. They had never heard such testimonies before and were quite intrigued by…
Madison is not a news desert, like so many cities, journalist Judith Valente observed last week during her Upper House presentation on The State of the Media Today & What We Can Do About It. Madison area residents are served by more than one newspaper as well as multiple broadcast news outlets. But even cities that have newspapers are not well-served when distant corporate owners are obsessed with the bottom line. “When profits aren’t there, reporters lose their jobs and truth suffers,” she said.
PLOVER, Wis (WSAW) — On Tuesday afternoon, more than 100 community members arrived at the Springs United Methodist Church in Plover to say their final goodbye to a building that has been considered an icon in the village for several decades. Upon arrival at the vigil, the congregation was surprised to learn that the original church bible was recovered from the debris unharmed. This was the second time the bible has survived a massive church fire with their congregation.
A local Lutheran church was given the go-ahead by the McFarland Plan Commission on Feb. 18 for an expansion and site design work. Risen Savior Lutheran Church, 5001 Holscher Road, sought permission for a 4,817-square-foot addition to the west side of its building. Congregation President Chris Fredrick said the church would use the additional space for a fellowship hall, classrooms, kitchen and restrooms. The current building of 5,044 square feet is primarily worship space.