Articles for tag: Parenting Classes

December 3, 2016

By Jenny Knowles The LifeChoices Health Network in Joplin, Missouri, is in pursuit of opportunities to help people, and they”re taking hope on the road. Three area clinics offer the services most of us associate with pregnancy centers””counseling, ultrasounds, and new parent assistance. LifeChoices literature breaks the services down into three groups: prevention, intervention, and extension. Prevention includes the sexual risk avoidance program the network takes into 15 local school districts. Intervention is pregnancy testing, ultrasounds, sexually transmitted infection screening, and treatment. Extension is prenatal, parenting and post-abortion recovery classes, and new dad training. LifeChoices has also added a mobile

November 14, 2014

Christian Standard

Mission & Evangelism

Church on Mission: Church at the Mission

By Jennifer Johnson “I”ve done church planting, I”ve done megachurch, and I”ve done microchurch,” says Blake Ryan. “I think this is the only thing God could call me to that would fulfill my heart in ministry.” “This” is Church at the Mission Corona, a new congregation that launched in January at the Corona/Norco (CA) Rescue Mission. Ryan serves as lead pastor of the church and director of the mission as well as managing principal at PlainJoe Studios, a design and media company also based in Corona. “We were part of Church at the Mission”s first location in Tustin, CA, and

May 10, 2009

Christian Standard

Restoration Movement History

We Had a Revolution!

By Becky Ahlberg “How did you get all these people to do this?” That was the question of the morning.Â We had 165 workers set up all over the school”s campus doing everything from fiber arts and woodworking to a variety of sports, rocket launching, and gardening. It was a veritable beehive of activity with wide-eyed children going from activity to activity wondering what could be next. How did we get all those people? We invited them to a revolution. That”s what we called it”””Revolution!”””a new way to connect with kids. It was a Sunday morning. We met early for

January 16, 2008

Mark A. Taylor

Family & Relationships Parenting

God”s Word, Our Opportunity

A simple weeknight habit—opening the Bible with your children—can shape a child’s spiritual direction for life. Parents don’t need a complex plan; they can begin by reading Scripture together at home.