by Joe and Cindi Ferrini | Apr 18, 2017 | Advocacy, Inclusion
Tom, a single guy from church about our age, came up to us when Joey was about 3 years old and said to us, “I noticed that you and Joe don’t come to church together. I see you each take a different service and exchange cars in the parking lot, each of you...
by Stephen Grcevich MD | Feb 27, 2017 | Advocacy, Inclusion, Key Ministry
Photo credit: Canton Repository A couple of years ago, I introduced our readers to “Downtown Nate” Manko. Nate is a young man who plays the drums in the praise band at Martindale Christian Fellowship in Canton, OH, where his father (Steve) serves as...
by Sandra Peoples | Jan 12, 2017 | Advocacy, Care and Support
In 1984, President Ronald Reagan proclaimed National Sanctity of Human Life Day in January saying: We have been given the precious gift of human life, made more precious still by our births in or pilgrimages to a land of freedom. It is fitting, then, on the...
by Stephen Grcevich MD | Dec 12, 2016 | Advocacy, Controversies, Culture of Life, Key Ministry
Count me among a very small number of child and adolescent psychiatrists very troubled by the proliferation of “safe spaces.”In the last few years, the idea has proliferated that students on college campuses are entitled to protection from speakers,...
by Key Ministry | Nov 13, 2016 | Adoption, Advocacy, Care and Support, Foster Care
Editor’s note: Andrew Schneidler is the author of today’s post in honor of Orphan Sunday. He and his wife (Michele) are former foster parents who have adopted three children, and among the leading advocates for adoption in the American church. They are speaking this...
by Sandra Peoples | Nov 3, 2016 | Advocacy, Inclusion, Special Needs Ministry
Each special-needs family has different challenges, but there are some concerns that are universal for us. If we could sit down with our pastors and tell them what’s on our hearts, it would include phrases like these: 1. We are lonely. We often don’t fit...
