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On today’s program we’ll discuss the closing of Portland’s Concordia University and what that closing is telling us about Christian higher education in this country. Also on today’s program, learn how Franklin Graham decides to ...
After 115 years since it was founded, Concordia University – a private Lutheran school in Portland, Ore. – announced Monday (Feb. 10) it will close its doors for good after the spring semester. Some see this latest campus closure as just another example of the growing challenges colleges and universities – especially private ...
In 2008, Starr founded Scarlet Hope and through that ministry has been reaching out to women in adult entertainment businesses through building relationships, providing weekly meals, job opportunities, and showing them Christ’s love in a variety of other ways. Based in Louisville, Ky., the ministry has also expanded to Las Vegas and Reno, Nev., Cincinnati, ...
Welcome to the inaugural weekly edition of The MinistryWatch Podcast! On today’s program we discuss the following: 1. New revelations at Chicago-based Willow Creek Community Church. 2. A new approach coming out of Indianapolis called ...
Like a rough piece of wood that needs sanding before it can be used in a piece of furniture, lives are being transformed through Purposeful Design, a not-so ordinary carpentry shop in Indianapolis. While ...
MinistryWatch announces the launch of a new weekly podcast beginning Friday, February 7, 2020. MinistryWatch is a 20-year-old ministry that highlights the great work of faithful Christian ministries, and reports on ministries that have been, ...
James Whitford has seen the growth and struggles that come with helping the poor escape the endless cycle of poverty, addiction and incarceration. For 20 years, Whitford and his wife, Marsha – who both founded the non-profit Watered Gardens Ministries, in Joplin, Missouri – have helped equip those entangled in that struggle to escape through finding a ...
More than 5,500 low-income households in the Los Angeles area recently received a welcomed “Christmas gift” when a local church helped them pay off $5.3 million in medical bills, according to media reports. “No strings ...
With “mixed feelings,” Boz Tchividjian believes it’s time for him to follow God’s call into private practice while continuing to help sexual abuse survivors. He also looks forward to passing the torch on to new leadership at GRACE, an organization he founded to help churches better respond to sexual ...
But her most recent opportunity to help a group of three toddlers was different, she wrote in a Dec. 12 article, “An Alternative To Foster Care”, on the North Carolina Family Policy Council’s website. These kids aren’t in foster care and their mom hasn’t lost custody. ...
