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NJ pastor finds new home in City Alliance Church

Although he admits that he didn’t plan to become a pastor, Nithin Thompson, the new pastor at City Alliance Church, said that by the time he was in high school, he had accepted that God is real and began questioning what that meant for his life. “I just kinda started to grow in my ...

Footsteps to Follow: Instruments of healing and hope

A teen struggles with an eating disorder. A veteran fights the effects of post traumatic stress disorder. Depression ravages the person whose job of 30 years was eliminated. Schizophrenia or bi-polar tendencies consume an individual suffering from decades of abuse. Grief overcomes one ...

At synagogue targeted by violence is a vision for transformation

PITTSBURGH (AP) — When he was working on the master plan for the post-9/11 World Trade Center site in New York City, architect Daniel Libeskind confronted a dilemma much like the one he will now face in helping revive another target of terrorist violence, the Tree of Life synagogue in ...

Footsteps to Follow: Esther’s trust in God — Accepting your assignment

Life can change in an instant. What do you do when it feels as if it is all falling apart? Hang on to God! One of the challenges I have been working on in my life is accepting the assignment I am given. Sometimes I don’t like what comes my way. I want to whine and fight every step of the ...

Jersey Shore church brings fill-in pastor on full-time

In her biographical sketch, Pastor Danesta Whaley, or Nessie as she likes to be called, states that her “desire and passion are to continue to serve her Lord in whatever capacity He calls her to, ready, willing and available to HIM and HIS people advancing the kingdom of God for HIS ...

Footsteps to Follow: The meaning of Jewish existence

In order to understand Reform Judaism at its best, we can study the life of one person, Rabbi Leo Baeck. Baeck served as a rabbi for the Jewish community of Germany before and during the Holocaust. As a prominent rabbi, he declined offers from Jews outside of Germany to help him escape the ...