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 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 [...]
By Brett Hetherington* Recently I had the opportunity to interview Sarah Knisely, a licensed clinical counselor, mother and the wife of Steve Knisely - the senior pastor of First United Methodist Church of East Liverpool (Mahoning Valley District). During the current COVID-19 pandemic, Knisely has seen a great need to be a resource for people [...]
