Meeting deep needs: Shepherd’s Kids Day connects families with critical service providers
Life is often filled with overwhelming challenges for parents and...
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...
Shepherd blessed this college student as a child. Now, he’s blessing other kids at Shepherd.
Gabe Short had just finished speaking at a community event in December in downtown Indianapolis when he had one of those unexpected moments when it becomes abundantly clear that God is at work through Shepherd Community Center. A young man named Jared approached Short, Shepherd’s director of development, to share his story and to show his...
Podcasts
How Shepherd got its start and where it’s headed in the future
Executive Director Jay Height discusses Shepherd Community Center’s history and its...
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...
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,...
Shepherd blessed this college student as a child. Now, he’s blessing other kids at Shepherd.
Gabe Short had just finished speaking at a community event in December in downtown Indianapolis when he had one of those unexpected moments when it becomes abundantly clear that God is at work through Shepherd Community Center. A young...
Meeting deep needs: Shepherd’s Kids Day connects families with critical service providers
Life is often filled with overwhelming challenges for parents and...
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...
Podcasts
How Shepherd got its start and where it’s headed in the future
Executive Director Jay Height discusses Shepherd Community Center’s history and its...
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...
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,...