TechMission
Starting this spring TechMission Corps' AmeriCorps program is offering one-year full-time paid internships serving in urban ministries in Boston, New York, Chicago, Denver, and Los Angeles.
This past winter, Pastor Jim Galanaugh, YouthPartnersNet team member, laced up his sneakers and directed a basketball clinic for 695 Denver at-risk inner-city youth. Partnering with the Whiz Kids and 328 volunteers and more than 2,920 in-kind service hours, "Slam Dunk Saturday" was indeed a Slam Dunk!
ChristianVolunteering.org has launched a campaign and website to equip churches for national volunteer month this April and volunteer week on April 27-May 3. The campaign site provides a searchable directory of nearly 3,000 volunteer opportunities in 1,800 organizations to equip churches to volunteer in their communities.
ChristianVolunteering.org: Putting Faith to Work
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 04/04/2008 - 18:31.
TechMission's ChristianVolunteering.org is the leading Christian volunteer matching website, currently offering over 2000 volunteer opportunities. Also check out the volunteer training and presentations we offer through UrbanMinistry.org's Encyclopedia of Volunteer Management, Volunteering, and Short-Term Missions.
TechMission Safe Families Program has released free software to protect children from pornography and other dangers by blocking them from accessing objectionable material on the Internet.
The vision of TechMission's UrbanMinistry.org is to help promote social justice and end that segregation by using Web 2.0 technology to connect the urban and suburban church worlds.
Michael Liimatta's Testimony - Audio
Submitted by mliimatta on Fri, 04/04/2008 - 13:24.Michael Liimatta's Testimony is told in a 1992 UNSHACKLED radio drama - courtesy of Pacific Garden Mission, Chicago, IL.
Growing up in an alcoholic family, Michael struggled with drug addiction himself until he came to Christ in 1974.
28:50 minutes (26.4 MB)
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Black pastors across the country are taking a stand on Internet pornography companies that are targeting the Black community by highjacking domain names of Black leaders to use for pornography websites.
Black clergy in Boston have launched a national effort to alert parents that a pornographic Internet website is using the names of civil rights leaders to draw people to scenes of sexual perversity.
