Posts Tagged ‘christianity’
Young Life
Young Life is a really cool ministry that I’m a part of here at Grove. Young Life is a Christian nonprofit that aims on “going where kids are and building personal relationships with them” and “providing fun, adventurous, life changing experiences” while “working in community alongside like-minded adults (volunteer leaders, committee members, donors and staff).”…
Read MoreFamily Brokenness
This blog post will look into one of the most neglected areas of brokenness in the church and Christian organizations. As I was sitting in a class on Entrepreneurship and the Mission of the Church, my professor asked, “Where is there brokenness in the world?” We took almost the whole class to focus solely on…
Read MoreWhat is the Role of the Church?
Introduction Over the next few blog posts, I want to explore different ideas about the church’s role in the community. Throughout the history of the church, she has played many different roles in many different communities. What roles are appropriate and which are inappropriate? When should it play those roles and in what types of…
Read MoreCia Cloud- Making advances in the area of digital ministry
When you go Instagram or even Tik Tok, how many times do you see a Christian video pop up on our for you pages? I know that I’ve seen a lot over the past few weeks and one of the most influential content creators, Cia Cloud, has been making advances in the area of digital…
Read MoreMission in the Marketplace
Sometimes as Christians we can fail to see the world of business as having any connection or relevance to Christianity and spreading the Gospel, we tend to separate business and Christianity, and view these two things as separate options where we must pick one or the other. It is important to know however, that these…
Read MoreHagans Christian Church
For my Entrepreneurship and the Mission of the Church class, myself and a few other students had the opportunity to work on a project together. The project was assisting Hagans Christian Church in West Virginia with updating some of their technology and streaming resources, creating a new website for them to use, and updating and…
Read MoreJames Cash Penney
James Cash Penney was born in 1875 to an impoverished family who lived on a farm in Missouri. To teach his son the value of money and self-reliance, James’ father made him pay for his own clothes once he reached the age of eight. James showed entrepreneurial thinking at a very young age when he…
Read MoreBuy On Purpose
Simon Lee had been working for his father’s business for 7 years, and he and his family planned for him to eventually run the business. Things changed however, when Lee had the same dream 30 nights in a row. He dreamed a neon sign flashing the number 50. After much prayer and reflection, Lee eventually…
Read MorePraxis
Praxis describes themselves as a “creative engine for redemptive entrepreneurship, supporting founders, funders, and innovators motivated by their faith to love their neighbors and renew culture.” The organization has taken on the mission of helping the world of entrepreneurship approach business in a new, redemptive way. Praxis has broken up the different ways that business…
Read MoreGod’s Garage
God’s Garage is a nonprofit organization based out of Houston, Texas. This organization helps single ladies, widows, and wives of deployed military with all their vehicle needs. They do everything from changing tires to giving cars away. In the garage, they do not charge these women for the labor. Most of the parts are donated…
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