‘I was just praying’ for help’: How a Shepherd job fair made a lasting difference
The young man came to Shepherd Community Center’s first community...
After a neighbor’s hard fall, Shepherd and Morales Group stepped up to ensure her long-term safety
The ambulance crew already had arrived and was treating a patient outside...
Meeting deep needs: Shepherd’s Kids Day connects families with critical service providers
Life is often filled with overwhelming challenges for parents and children on the near Eastside of Indianapolis. One example: In 2023, staff at Shepherd Community Center learned that 61 students living in nearby neighborhoods and attending Indianapolis Public Schools were pregnant. Now, the staff could have said, “How awful,” and gone back to...
Podcasts
How Dolly Parton and Shepherd are working together to teach kids to read
Executive Director Jay Height discusses Shepherd Community Center’s adult and children’s...
How we can help our children thrive in a tough world
Shepherd Community Center Executive Director Jay Height discusses how government,...
How Indiana can become the best state in the nation for children
Shepherd Community Center Executive Director Jay Height casts a bold vision for the...
Columns by Jay
How do we respond as the church in America declines? Get back to the basics of being salt and light.
An important thing to remember about surveys is that one in isolation is of limited value. Are the numbers accurate? Is it showing us an anomaly, or does it signal something wider and deeper? But a cluster of surveys, pointing in the same general direction, can help us accurately identify emerging trends. And there’s little doubt that the Christian church in America is trending downward. Consider these data points: A Gallup survey in August 2019 found that only 36% of Americans said they have...
From gas to food to childcare, prices are soaring. And my neighbors feel the pain.
From gas to food to childcare, prices are soaring. And my neighbors feel the pain. The numbers just don’t add up for my neighbors. As inflation soars at the highest rate in more than 40 years, many families on the near east side of Indianapolis are struggling a bit more each month to pay the rent, feed their children, buy gas to get to work and back, and even to purchase necessities like soap and laundry detergent. One mother recently told me she now washes her family’s clothes less often at...
The Great Unsettling: Fast pace of social change leaves us uncertain and uneasy.
The Great Unsettling: Fast pace of social change leaves us uncertain and uneasy. Here’s how we can cope. Journalist Shams Charania accurately summed up modern life in 18 words: “The world we live in now is totally different than it was five, six, seven, eight years ago.” Charania was speaking about his specialty – he reports on the NBA for The Athletic. Yet, he could have been describing how our world has changed in the past two years as the COVID-19 pandemic radically altered how we live,...
Meeting deep needs: Shepherd’s Kids Day connects families with critical service providers
Life is often filled with overwhelming challenges for parents and children on the near Eastside of Indianapolis. One example: In 2023, staff at Shepherd Community Center learned that 61 students living in nearby neighborhoods and...
‘I was just praying’ for help’: How a Shepherd job fair made a lasting difference
The young man came to Shepherd Community Center’s first community...
After a neighbor’s hard fall, Shepherd and Morales Group stepped up to ensure her long-term safety
The ambulance crew already had arrived and was treating a patient outside...
Podcasts
How Dolly Parton and Shepherd are working together to teach kids to read
Executive Director Jay Height discusses Shepherd Community Center’s adult and children’s...
How we can help our children thrive in a tough world
Shepherd Community Center Executive Director Jay Height discusses how government,...
How Indiana can become the best state in the nation for children
Shepherd Community Center Executive Director Jay Height casts a bold vision for the...
Columns by Jay
How do we respond as the church in America declines? Get back to the basics of being salt and light.
An important thing to remember about surveys is that one in isolation is of limited value. Are the numbers accurate? Is it showing us an anomaly, or does it signal something wider and deeper? But a cluster of surveys, pointing in the same general direction, can help us accurately identify emerging trends. And there’s little doubt that the Christian church in America is trending downward. Consider these data points: A Gallup survey in August 2019 found that only 36% of Americans said they have...
From gas to food to childcare, prices are soaring. And my neighbors feel the pain.
From gas to food to childcare, prices are soaring. And my neighbors feel the pain. The numbers just don’t add up for my neighbors. As inflation soars at the highest rate in more than 40 years, many families on the near east side of Indianapolis are struggling a bit more each month to pay the rent, feed their children, buy gas to get to work and back, and even to purchase necessities like soap and laundry detergent. One mother recently told me she now washes her family’s clothes less often at...
The Great Unsettling: Fast pace of social change leaves us uncertain and uneasy.
The Great Unsettling: Fast pace of social change leaves us uncertain and uneasy. Here’s how we can cope. Journalist Shams Charania accurately summed up modern life in 18 words: “The world we live in now is totally different than it was five, six, seven, eight years ago.” Charania was speaking about his specialty – he reports on the NBA for The Athletic. Yet, he could have been describing how our world has changed in the past two years as the COVID-19 pandemic radically altered how we live,...