Articles for tag: Multiple Sclerosis

March 24, 2011

Christian Standard

Ramping Up

By Jennifer Taylor Before developing a new outreach ministry, DaySpring Christian Church (Fort Collins, Colorado) wisely asked community members about their biggest needs. Although the area is noted for an especially high incidence of multiple sclerosis, many people using wheelchairs said they did not have ramps to their front doors. Jim Stroh and other DaySpring volunteers have spent years changing that, one ramp at a time. The team created a consortium with Volunteers of America and local resource agencies for the disabled. Using a combination of his own skills, online information, and official specifications from the Americans with Disabilities Act,

August 27, 2006

Christian Standard

The God Who Loves Rebels

By Dave Smith I trudged up the hill. I was mad at God, the world, anything, and everybody. Why? Because I was tired of how God was running things. He sure wasn”t listening to me. And I had had enough. I was angry. I was going to stay angry, maybe forever, or at least till the end of the day. In that reverent spirit, I walked into a Tuesday morning chapel here at Ozark Christian College. I sat down. I stood up. We sang a song. And then, as if things weren”t bad enough, the worship leader said, “Get together

May 21, 2006

Christian Standard

The Mark

By Dave Smith I walked across the parking lot. I wasn”t sure why I was there. But God was working in me. I had questions. I needed answers. Besides, I was new in town and mom said nice girls go to church. A young man my age saw me. He stopped and introduced himself. He walked with me into the singles Bible study. I was nervous. The memory of Jim Jones and the mass suicides at Guyana bothered me. We sat down in a circle and began to study the book of John. I understood very little. But this group

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