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By Samara Kalk Derby – Wisconsin State Journal – Abundant Life Christian School parent Kari Aeschlimann was feeling reflective Tuesday morning. A day earlier, customers had packed area Culver’s restaurants to support a fundraiser for Abundant Life, where a student killed a teacher and a student in a shooting Dec. 16. What had started as a local benefit to raise money to help Abundant Life families blossomed into a statewide effort, in which at least 80 Culver’s restaurants donated a portion of the day’s proceeds to the fundraiser. “There are no words to express what a beautiful outpouring of love…
Erik Ogren – BGEA – As the snow falls quietly around Abundant Life Christian School and City Church in Madison, Wisconsin small groups of people huddle together. In some ways, it may seem like just another December day. But the long line of yellow sheriff’s department tape tells a different story. On Monday, a 15-year-old student brought a gun to the school, where she shot classmates and a teacher. The attack claimed two lives and left six others wounded (including two who remain in critical condition). The teenager also took her own life. In the midst of “the most wonderful…
By David Dahmer – Madison365 – Dr. Rev. Carmen Porco, the longtime executive director of Housing Ministries of Wisconsin who has been a highly respected anti-poverty activist and a well-known advocate of low-income housing, officially announced his retirement in June following over a half-century of work, including developing the revolutionary Wisconsin Anti-Poverty Model to lift people out of poverty and to transform their lives. “It’s difficult because I’ve retired from the organization where I don’t have the everyday responsibility,” Porco tells Madison365, “but I’m going to continue to try to promote some public policy debate and keep trying to get…
By Wisconsin State Journal Staff – Parents racing toward their children’s school as ambulances sped past them, a sea of police cars, a cry of disbelief as one person crumpled to the pavement. Madison on Monday joined the ranks of communities that have been staggered by gun violence in schools after police say a 15-year-old female student shot and killed a teacher and a teenage student at a Far East Side Christian school and wounded six others, two critically. Read the rest of this story. UPDATE: Friends Recall Those Lost in the Madison School Shooting
“Are You For Us or For Our Enemies?” Joshua asked the man standing in front of him just outside of Jericho. ” [Joshua 5:13] “Neither,” he responded, saying he was with God, as the commander of the army of the Lord. In the wake of this fraught election season, said Lighthouse church pastor Marcio Sierra, it would be good to find our unity in God and not politics, “loving each other as God loves us.” Pastor Sierra offered the reflection as part of the third annual community ecumenical Thanksgiving service, held Monday, November 25, 2024, at Bethel Lutheran Church. One…
By David Dahmer – Madison365 – The Madison community is in mourning as it remembers its beloved pastor, mentor, coach, public defender, fraternity brother, and community leader, Rev. Richard Jones Sr., who passed away on Nov. 16 at the age of 61. Rev. Jones, who spent almost a decade serving as the senior pastor of Mt. Zion Baptist Church, Madison’s largest Black church, was well-known in Madison for his generosity, kindness, and compassion. Pastor Jones left an indelible mark on the church and the Madison community, says Dr. Rev. Marcus Allen, the current senior pastor at Mt. Zion Baptist Church.…
By Natalie Yahr – The Capital Times – At 81, retired teacher Christine Cannon is ready to sell her house and move into the senior condo of her dreams. The only problem? That condo doesn’t exist yet. Instead, she has her eye on the backyard of a 19th century farmhouse on Madison’s west side, where nurse Karin Krause and family educator Paula Reif are working to build an “intentional intergenerational neighborhood” they say would be the first of its kind in Wisconsin. Read more of this story. Eleven years ago we first reported on Hope & A Future. Kudos…
Madison, WI — A coalition of churches across Madison is coming together to host the third annual Ecumenical Thanksgiving Service on Monday, November 25, 2024. The service will be at Bethel Lutheran Church, 312 Wisconsin Ave. It will provide an inclusive space for worshippers of diverse Christian traditions to gather in gratitude and fellowship. The evening begins with a musical prelude at 6:15 pm, followed by a service that brings together Catholic, Evangelical, and mainline Protestant community members. Attendees will have the chance to celebrate Thanksgiving by reflecting on God’s many blessings, reflecting on shared faith in Christ, and supporting…
MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) -A mother and her three kids received a life-changing gift after navigating hardship and homelessness. Bianca Hightower shed tears when she received a car for her family at City Church on Saturday morning. Organizations Generous Jalopy and Waunakee Christian Brothers Automotive donated it to her. Read more of this story.
By Tanaisha Shaw – Channel 3000.com – MADISON, Wis. — 2024 marks 20 years of the Fall Gospel Fest in Dane County. Organizers host the event at different churches and venues across the county. “The thing that we wanted to do, we wanted to close that gap.” “In terms of having artists actually stop in Madison as opposed to going to the larger surrounding cities so people don’t have to travel to see those artists, and they can actually see those artists right here in Madison and Dane County.” said the director the festival, Clyde Gaines. Read more of this…