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 | 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...
