RENEW.org is introducing a new service that can help churches find ministerial candidates and ministerial candidates to find churches. The RENEW.org Job Board helps to align ministers/pastors with churches who both care about Christian Church/Restoration Movement beliefs.
Churches can post the jobs they need filled, and ministerial/pastoral candidates can apply for the jobs for which they may be matched. The site helps both churches and ministers/pastors identify with those who are aligned with common beliefs in the Christian Churches/Churches of Christ.
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Andrew Frazier has been appointed as the new vice president of student life/dean of students at Johnson University. He will start in his new position in July and will succeed outgoing VP David Legg. Frazier has served as registrar at Johnson since 2017.
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Fortune magazine offered a glimpse of a worship service in the metaverse in a feature article that included interviews with three VR (virtual reality) ministers. One man said of a recent service: “I couldn’t have had such an immersive church experience sitting in my pew. I was able to see the Scriptures in a new way.”
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Milligan University says gifts from four retired professors are helping to support the arts at the institution.
Gifts from Lee and Pat Magness will help start the Magness Lectureship on Jesus and the Arts, an every-other-year event that will focus on the person, teachings, and ministry of Jesus as reflected on and interpreted through the arts. Lee and Pat Magness taught at Milligan for 30 and 28 years, respectively.
Bruce and Rosemarie Shields, meanwhile, have gifted funds to help with renovations and upgrades to Milligan’s arts facilities, art studio, and the fine arts program. The veteran educators—Bruce served 32 years with Emmanuel Christian Seminary, while Rosemarie served 20-plus years with Milligan—gave the gift in memory of their son, Robert Shields, a 1986 alumnus who died of cancer in July 2020.
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A MetroLink security guard who was killed by a gunman in St. Louis on Jan. 31, 2021, was remembered at a prayer service Monday on the one-year anniversary of his death. James Cook was a U.S. Marine Corps veteran who attended Sullivan (Mo.) Christian Church. He was married and the father of two.
“I just pray for your guys all the time,” his wife, Kimberlee, told Cook’s former colleagues, Fox2Now.com reported. She thanked those present for honoring her husband’s memory. SCC pastor John Blackmore led a prayer.
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Crates containing medical supplies packed by Ekklesia Christian Church in Conway, S.C., were stuck in customs in Panama for a time until a missions team member’s neighbor contacted the Panamanian president’s brother (they are friends) about the situation, ECC’s Tina Wilson reported on Facebook on Jan. 23. “Now that this connection has been discovered, they’re running the need right up to the top,” Wilson shared. “Miracles on miracles. . . . He never ceases to blow my mind!”
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An Associated Press article about the aftermath of a Dec. 10 tornado that destroyed 1,300 homes, businesses, and houses of worship in Mayfield, Ky., indicated that church leaders there are unlikely to replace their large, 100-year-old buildings with anything quite so grand.
“I think all of the congregations in the downtown area are using this experience to re-envision their ministries . . . and how they might make a difference in our community,” said Milton West, senior minister of First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).
Four churches were destroyed and two churches were heavily damaged in the tornado.
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