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...
‘Relationships with others who love Jesus’: How Shepherd interns have built lasting connections
In the second of two articles about Shepherd Community Center’s 2023...
How Shepherd, a youth group and a local ministry worked together to change a teen’s life
Jameer is only 13 years old, but he can tell you all about the life-changing power of partnerships. Jameer, who uses a wheelchair, lives with his father on the near Eastside of Indianapolis. Their home lacked a wheelchair ramp, which made it difficult for Jameer’s father to get his son from the house to the car and back anytime they needed to go...
Podcasts
Shepherd’s economic impact in Indianapolis pays huge dividends
Shepherd Community Center Executive Director Jay Height interviews Phil Powell,...
Shepherd is taking innovative steps to address America’s housing crisis
Shepherd Community Center Executive Director Jay Height and Shepherd’s Director of...
How Shepherd is responding to America’s critical lack of affordable housing
Shepherd Community Center Executive Director Jay Height and Shepherd’s Director of...
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,...
How Shepherd, a youth group and a local ministry worked together to change a teen’s life
Jameer is only 13 years old, but he can tell you all about the life-changing power of partnerships. Jameer, who uses a wheelchair, lives with his father on the near Eastside of Indianapolis. Their home lacked a wheelchair ramp, which made...
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...
‘Relationships with others who love Jesus’: How Shepherd interns have built lasting connections
In the second of two articles about Shepherd Community Center’s 2023...
Podcasts
Shepherd’s economic impact in Indianapolis pays huge dividends
Shepherd Community Center Executive Director Jay Height interviews Phil Powell,...
Shepherd is taking innovative steps to address America’s housing crisis
Shepherd Community Center Executive Director Jay Height and Shepherd’s Director of...
How Shepherd is responding to America’s critical lack of affordable housing
Shepherd Community Center Executive Director Jay Height and Shepherd’s Director of...
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,...