By Brett Hetherington* How do you connect students with resources and tutoring within their school district when their schools are closed due to a pandemic? If you are Neal Nelson, executive administrator of Catalyst Ministry, you start thinking outside of the box. “Before the shutdown our volunteers were providing over 50 hours of in-school tutoring,” [...]
By Kaye Wolfinger* The Conference Council on Youth Ministries (CCYM) is excited to announce a June 14 live streamed alternative event for Youth Annual Conference 2020. Our virtual YAC will take place at 7:00 p.m. on Sunday, June 14. We will live stream our keynote speaker, Shane Claiborne, as well as the band, Tribe Collective, [...]
By Rev. Jared Gadomski Littleton and Rev. Lisa Morrison* In Rodney Stark’s The Rise of Christianity, Stark detailed how epidemics were a driving force for the rise of Christianity. Whereas the rich fled to the countryside estate, and the healthy abandoned their ill, Christians stayed and tended to the wounds, mopped the brows of the [...]
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