By Brett Hetherington* As the school year winds down, many different awards are given to students for athletic achievements, academic accomplishments, and more. Teachers and administrators often receive recognition for a job well done before the doors close for the summer, but sometimes there is recognition for an organization outside the walls of the school [...]
Category: Community Service
Students Continue Benefitting from Community Ministry and Churches Partnership during Pandemic
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,” [...]
Hospital Chaplains Called to Minister in New Ways in This Time of COVID-19
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 [...]