By Melissa Wuske Overcoming Odds for Education Fred Barley, age 19, is not a typical student. He is homeless and rode six hours across Georgia on his little brother’s bike to get to campus to register for classes. Since the dorms wouldn’t open for several more weeks, he pitched a tent on campus and began […]
By David Faust In their book, Why Nobody Wants to Go to Church Anymore, authors Thom and Joani Schultz point out: “Church attendance is shrinking. While 40 percent of Americans say they attend church every week, the actual number is more like 20 percent.” The number of teenagers attending every week has dropped to 15 […]
By David Faust These questions coordinate with Engage Your Faith and This Week with the Word. Sunday School Lesson Text: Hebrews 12:1-13 1. As you consider the conditions of today’s world, do you mainly feel discouraged or encouraged? Why? 2. Why do you think the majority of people choose not to attend church services on […]
By Laura McKillip Wood Gentleness isn’t a concept many of the children Orphan Helpers works with have experienced. Raised in difficult family environments, surrounded by drug abuse, poverty, and violence, many of the children and teenagers in El Salvador and Honduras that Orphan Helpers reaches are incarcerated in juvenile detention centers or have been placed […]
By Mark Scott One of my college professors titled a chapel sermon, “Love.” We thought the text would be 1 Corinthians 13, or John 3, or even Hosea 11. Instead it was our text for today. Simply put, discipline is love, and Jesus modeled it. Our text today shows that Jesus is the model of […]
