The Solomon Foundation is moving on to the final phase in development of its Solomon Centre site in Parker, Colo. The Town of Parker last week unanimously approved Phase 3, which will feature a three-story, 25,000-square-foot building, set for completion in August 2023. TSF, the fourth-largest extension fund in the United States, will move into the new building.
The construction will increase building space at The Solomon Centre to more than 110,000 square feet, all of it occupied by not-for-profit organizations. The ministry occurring on-site each day is notable.
In addition to serving as international headquarters for TSF, the site hosts the following: the local office for CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) which serves foster children; offices for the largest Christian counseling center on the south side of Denver (more than 30 counselors); the offices for Southeast Christian Church; the national headquarters for Mountain Child (serving children in Nepal); a regional office for Lifeline Christian Mission; and SECORCares (which occupies its own building), originally a ministry of SECC, which serves the underserved across 20 ZIP codes via a food pantry and many other services.
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Three of four planned Safe Haven Baby Boxes have been installed at fire stations in Jefferson County, Ky., thanks to a special offering at Fern Creek (Ky.) Christian Church last year that raised almost four times its goal.
The church originally set out to raise $15,000 to purchase a single baby box for Fern Creek Fire Department. But offerings that day totaled $54,000, and lead minister Craig Grammer said church leaders made an additional $6,000 contribution to pay for a total of four boxes. The baby boxes provide a safe space for people to drop off a baby to be put up for adoption without penalties or face-to-face contact, according to a story at www.whas11.com.
In addition to the box at Fern Creek, two boxes have been installed at fire stations at Pleasure Ridge Park, and an additional box will be installed at Shively.
“It’s . . . not just about providing a box,” Grammer told the station, “but what else are we [the church] called to do to help moms and children in need?”
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Kentucky Christian University received a unique donation in April—a complete 19th-century Torah manuscript made in the Diaspora tradition. The scroll, penned by an anonymous Polish scribe, is comprised of 35 calfskin panels, measures nearly 70 feet in length, and was sewn together using thread from the leg sinew of a kosher animal. KCU’s magazine, The Voice, notes the manuscript survived because “it was deemed pasul—no longer usable for public reading—and relegated to a storage room, thus escaping the destruction of many Hebrew scriptures that accompanied the Holocaust.”
“This Torah was brought to Israel by Holocaust survivors,” Dr. Gerald Dyson, associate professor of history, shared with the magazine. “It eventually passed into the hands of private collectors from which it came to us. Our responsibility is preserving these sacred texts, using them responsibly, and remembering how such an object came to us. . . .”
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Tomoka Christian Church’s campus in Palm Bay, Fla., will host the Palm Bay Police Department’s National Night Out event Aug. 2. National Night Out is an annual community-building campaign that promotes strong police-community partnerships and neighborhood camaraderie, according to an article in the Space Coast Daily.
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First Christian Church, Warsaw, Ind., is among five local churches forming the Coalition of Churches for Orphan Care that is rallying around vulnerable children in Kosciusko County, according to an article in the Times Union. The coalition is participating in this effort with other established nonprofits and the Department of Child Services.
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Campus pastors from around the country will gather Sept. 21-22 at The Rock Church—El Cajon in San Diego, Calif., to learn from experts and each other. Attendance is capped at 150. Learn more and register for Campus Pastor Summit 2022.
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“What did the COVID pandemic do to American Christian church life?,” Roger E. Olson wrote at patheos.com. “The only reasonable conclusion I can draw is that it winnowed out the uncommitted church members and attenders; the faithful and committed have now returned (unless they are physically unable to return).”
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