Culture: Negative Feminism Recently, culture has been teaching women to adhere to an unrealistic standard of beauty. Social media has only made the situation worse through filters and constant comparison. Feminism surfaced as a way to fight for women’s rights, but it has often gone about achieving this in harmful ways, which has led to […]
Category: Young Adults
Eagle Lake Camps: Redemptive Relationships
Eagle Lake Camps is based out of Colorado Springs and connected to the broader ministry of the Navigators. Each summer, college students dedicate ten weeks to sharing the gospel with kids all around the Midwest. From overnight camp to traveling day camps, this non-profit organization continues to impact the lives of children as well as […]
Christian Fashion: Fabrics of Faith
Fashion and Culture Fashion is a way people express their personality and passions. Yet, Christians are notorious for having either bad taste in fashion or signing it off altogether. The word bland comes to mind for many people when they imagine “Christian clothing.” Christian fashion is considered boring, or Christians just conform to the culture […]
Redemptive Entrepreneurship-Esther Homes
As a great sign of redemptive entrepreneurship, Amber Hornsby and Rachel Hanus have created this organization called Esther Homes. Their main goal and purpose for creating and furnishing these homes is to give places for pregnant women and women with children who are homeless a place to live. First off, as a mother or soon […]
YoungLife
Young Life has been the model for youth ministry for almost the past hundred years. High school and college students alike have flocked to their camps, meetings, and Bible studies. What is it about their model that makes it so effective? Young Life focuses on forming connections with the students before evangelizing, so it allows […]
Athletes In Action – A Global Sports Community
There is no better group of disciplined, dedicated, and driven people than athletes. These are the people who get up at the crack of dawn to train, and the ones who stay up under stadium lights with a down-to-the-wire performance. Regardless of the sport, an athlete constantly pushes their limits to become the best they […]
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 […]
Budding Creationss Part 3: What’s Next?
Recap: Chole Hartman started an online t-shirt business titled Budding Creationss. Her goal was to find a common and light-hearted way to share the gospel in one’s daily life. She has found it difficult to make any sales because she feels that her primary target market, fellow Christians, is more concerned with losing the worldly […]
Young Life
Young Life is a huge part of my life as I have been involved in it since I was in sixth grade, and am now a leader in Sharpsville. It is such an amazing organization that meets kids where they are at and shares the gospel with them. Middle and high school are such crucial […]
Budding.Creationss: The Challenges
With Hartman’s new e-commerce idea launched and out in the public, she has come across some surprising realizations. While she received a lot of positive feedback from her fellow Christian friends, they did not buy her clothes. They do not normally wear clothes that have verses on them. They were positive about the idea but […]