In 2017, he heard about Redemption Ink, a nonprofit that has created a national network of tattoo parlors that are helping desperate people like Michael afford the long painful process of altering or covering tattoos that promote racial hatred, gang violence, and sexual trafficking.
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, ...
Recidivism is a fundamental concept in criminal justice. It refers to a person's relapse into criminal behavior. The Bureau of Justice Statistics found in one recent study that 68 percent of inmates released from prison were re-arrested within three years, 79 percent within 6 years, ...
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 ...
Ashland University is a 140-year-old school affiliated with the Brethren Church. With 5700 students and a 135-acre campus, it appears to be the very picture of a traditional college. But Ashland has a program that ...
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 ...
A Wilberforce Moment for Liberia
A Washington, D.C., congregation asks, “What can we see God end in our generation?” ________ Todd Phillips was once a lot like the young adults he found himself pastoring. At age 24, looking for ...
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. ...
For CitiHope International, a New York charity that has provided medical and nutritional assistance in dozens of countries for nearly three decades, major fluctuations in annual income are par for the course.
Perhaps one of the most successful proliferations of these “little platoons” over the past half century has been the growth of Bible Study Fellowship (BSF). It has become one of the largest (though least known – more ...