‘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...
Listen to Jay Height explain how Shepherd is fighting the epidemic of loneliness
Inside Indiana Business President Gerry Dick recently hosted Jay Height for an in-depth conversation on the Business & Beyond podcast about Shepherd Community Center’s work to break the cycle of poverty in Indianapolis. In the interview, Height, Shepherd’s executive director for nearly 30 years, discussed the ministry’s efforts to provide...
Podcasts
Violence in Indy shatters families and leaves neighbors asking: Where can I find hope?
Executive Director Jay Height discusses how a wave of violence is affecting our...
Shepherd works with local builder to provide affordable housing in Indianapolis
Executive Director Jay Height and Director of Housing Dennis Westlake discuss how...
Shepherd shows how a Christian ministry can partner with public schools
Executive Director Jay Height discusses Shepherd Community Center’s growing partnership...
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,...
Listen to Jay Height explain how Shepherd is fighting the epidemic of loneliness
Inside Indiana Business President Gerry Dick recently hosted Jay Height for an in-depth conversation on the Business & Beyond podcast about Shepherd Community Center’s work to break the cycle of poverty in Indianapolis. In the...
‘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
Violence in Indy shatters families and leaves neighbors asking: Where can I find hope?
Executive Director Jay Height discusses how a wave of violence is affecting our...
Shepherd works with local builder to provide affordable housing in Indianapolis
Executive Director Jay Height and Director of Housing Dennis Westlake discuss how...
Shepherd shows how a Christian ministry can partner with public schools
Executive Director Jay Height discusses Shepherd Community Center’s growing partnership...
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,...