by System Administrator | Apr 3, 2017 | News
Craig Walls has accepted the call to join Disciples Church Extension Fund, as a Building and Capital Services Advisor for the ministry. He will begin serving as a deployed staff member for DCEF on May 1. Walls’ responsibilities will include relationship management in...
by System Administrator | Mar 23, 2017 | News, Stories
First Christian Church has been in its current location in downtown Shelbyville, IN since 1901. As with many small towns in predominately rural areas, the appeal of and easy access via interstate to a larger city (in this case, Indianapolis) contributed to the decline...
by System Administrator | Feb 21, 2017 | News, Stories
“It didn’t seem like a tornado kind of a day,” said Jim Michel, who was in his backyard on Sunday evening, May 22, 2011, grilling dinner for the church youth group. Nevertheless, before day’s end, a category EF5 twister would claim 161 lives, injure more than 1,000...
by System Administrator | Jan 26, 2017 | News, Stories
Save The Family Church Ministries, Inc. is known as a small congregation with a mighty reach. Matthew 25:35-36 is one of their mottos: “for I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you...
by System Administrator | Nov 1, 2016 | Events
About 115 people from the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), the Presbyterian Church (USA), the United Church of Christ and The Episcopal Church gathered last weekend at Northway Christian Church in Dallas, Texas,...
by System Administrator | Nov 1, 2016 | Stories
At more than 170 years old, you might forgive a congregation for deciding that their ministry had come to an end when their 144-year-old church building was deemed uninhabitable. Not so for First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in the city of Princeton,...
by System Administrator | Aug 25, 2016 | News, Stories
It’s a classic story of a church that started many years ago, grew in its heyday and then found itself struggling more recently with an unclear purpose in an aging building with a large mortgage. However, the story of Shawnee Park Community Christian Church (formerly...
by System Administrator | Jun 28, 2016 | News, Stories
Janet Williams has a special passion for patients with Alzheimer’s disease and their caregivers. As a caregiver for her father, who suffered from dementia (Alzheimer’s is a form of dementia), she can relate to their situation. Janet fondly remembers the great stories...
by System Administrator | Jun 22, 2016 | News, Stories
Sometimes it just takes that extra boost to get to the finish line. Iglesia Mision La Roca in Dallas, Texas, recently received that boost when Disciples Church Extension Fund (DCEF) awarded the congregation our very first Holy Places grant, which is a grant for the...
by System Administrator | May 24, 2016 | News
Within hours of a devastating fire on May 19 at First Christian Church in Lake Jackson, Texas, Disciples Church Extension Fund Advisor Jim Michel received a call from the Coastal Plains Area of the Southwest Region telling him about the church’s building disaster. As...
