Army Major Jon Norquist discovered his unique form of art by way of a coffee making accident. Using a malfunctioning coffee pot resulted in spilling coffee on the table, but the unique pattern one day caught the artist’s attention as something to create. This spilled coffee art began on paper, then moved on to an […]
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A Door of Hope Ministry
A Door of Hope is faith-based pregnancy center in Delaware focused on guiding women through the decision making process as a result from potentially unwanted pregnancies. The center’s two locations provide counseling programs, medical care by licensed physicians, and supplies for new mothers to raise a child. Women will be lead through the outcomes of […]
Sunday Breakfast Mission
Sunday Breakfast Mission is a homeless shelter in Wilmington, Delaware that provides the local homeless population with food and housing. The mission started out as a a shelter in 1894 and has branched out to now offer medical services, women’s ministries, as well as Sunday school for children. The non-profit organization balances the spiritual and […]
How to Address the De-churched?
It might come to a surprise to people that the Barna Group found that around a third of people who are churchless are ones who previously attended church but decided to no longer attend. Without doing a statistical study, I would guess that a large percentage of this 33% is college students who grew up […]
Churchlessness and Relevance
According to the Barna Group’s research, the number one reason for churchlessness is people not feeling that church is personally relevant to them. This is true for all three categories of Christians, non-believers, those belonging to Gen Z. What can the church do to address this reasoning? While it is certainly not attainable on this […]
Newness Added to Quantitative and Qualitative Benchmarks
While quantitative and qualitative data descriptions are the two categories most commonly taught in early math or statistics classes, a different category is brought up in a church context. “Fruitfulness” is explained by Tim Keller as another aspect going beyond surface level observations. Fruitfulness takes both typical measures into account into a more specific focus […]