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News ReleaseMadison, WI — The Family Research Institute of Wisconsin ("Institute") announced today that it has released its 2006 Voter Information Publication (VIP). The VIP includes incumbents’ voting records on selected bills and candidates’ responses to a wide range of survey statements.
Hip Hop churches appear to be a growing trend in contemporary ministry. But Madison has a Hop Hop church.
When is the last time you went to your church’s web site? This week? Last month? Last YEAR?Most people have Internet access at work or at home now. Wireless access is now spreading throughout Madison. The web has even been called the number one media source. The web isn’t going anywhere, it’s here to stay. So is your church using it as much as they should?What can a church web site do? Besides just giving information for people interested in attending, it can do quite a bit. It can list upcoming events, small group meetings, sermon topics, prayer requests, study…
Dear sisters,Last year I attended a training seminar in Michigan called SALTS – Survivors of Abuse Leadership Training Seminar. I’m writing to invite some other women – and men, too – to consider attending this seminarSponsored by Open Hearts Ministry, this seminar offers skills and expertise to people interested in learning to facilitate healing and recovery groups for abuse survivors. Across the country, the groups go by different names – Grace Groups, Beauty for Ashes, Abuse Recovery Support Groups – but their purpose and approach is the same.Although the focus is on sexual abuse survivors, SALTS – and the group healing process…
As if a homeschooling mother of five small children didn’t already have her hands full, Jeanne Wagner has felt God call her to lead a newly formed task force called Cherish the Children. This grassroots organization is educating and raising awareness about sexual exploitation in the Madison area.
Habitat for Humanity’s first Apostle Build home was dedicated Sunday, June 4, 2006. The new home for the John and Lori Severson family, on Buchner Court in the Twin Oaks subdivision, was a cooperative effort involving members of ten area churches. It began last October and now Habitat for Humanity Executive Director Brian Miller is looking for more churches to get involved in the next home.
Dear sisters,A friend once said a new word – God-incidence. Not a chance occurrence. Not “good luck” or even a random act of beauty (and I love random acts of beauty). But one of those God-acts that catches us by surprise. Something we see His hand all over – but usually after the fact.I had a God-incidence recently. Someone from Care Net (a ministry to people seeking healing from abortion experiences) called my church’s office looking for help last fall. Care Net runs a periodic bible study called Forgiven and Set Free (tuck that bit of information away). At the…
Giving a new meaning to “men’s night out,” Promise Keepers kicked off its 2006 conference season this weekend with an estimated 7,500 men and boys at BankAtlantic Center in Fort Lauderdale.
Dear sisters, It’s Saturday. The farmers’ market in Madison is in full swing. A strange-but-true experience (but the morning buns are still amazing – and probably 600 calories each. how many times do you have to walk around the square to burn off one morning bun???). The farmer’s market is a foray into a unique, though sometimes foreign, land.I see women pushing strollers from stall to stall wearing "Pro-Child – Pro-Choice" t-shirts.My heart aches when I see young women seeking signatures for "reproductive rights." I love these girls. I want them to come to Jesus and find life. I know…
BELLFLOWER, CALIF. (ANS) — Sharing the Gospel to people of various religions will be the focus of the reality-type television show "The Way of the Master" as it enters its third season, said co-hosts Kirk Cameron and Ray Comfort.