40 Years of Shepherd: A Continuum of Care
Over the past 40 years, Shepherd has been here, committed, loyal,...
40 Years of Shepherd: A Worn-Out Pencil Box with Matchbox Cars
For 40 years, Shepherd has served our neighbors from cradle to career to...
Police officers who rescued children from frigid pond honored at Shepherd luncheon
The call came a minute after midnight. People were trapped inside a vehicle that had gone into a retention pond on a frigid January night on the northeast side of Indianapolis. Five Indianapolis police officers responded immediately to the scene, where they found that the vehicle was submerged under 10 feet of icy water and 15 feet from the...
Podcasts
Why do people struggle to pay the bills? Our economy isn’t working for everyone.
Shepherd Community Center Executive Director Jay Height discusses the economic...
New ministry begins here. Power of internships is building new leaders.
Shepherd Community Center Executive Director Jay Height and Young Adult Coordinator...
Neighbors helping neighbors: How churches can engage with their communities
Shepherd Executive Director Jay Height and McKenzie Scott Lewis, senior director of...
Columns by Jay
‘Friendship recession’ is ravaging our mental and physical health. Here’s how we fight against it together.
It’s been called the friendship recession. And it’s having devastating consequences on our emotional, mental and physical health. Recent surveys indicate that Americans have significantly fewer close friends on average and are much more likely to say they have no close friends than in previous decades. The friendship recession is so severe that U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy has declared that the surge in Americans’ loneliness and isolation is a public health crisis. In May, Murthy...
Why loving your neighbors is the secret to a happy and healthy life
In 1938, researchers at Harvard University asked a vital question that remains highly relevant 85 years later: What are the factors that determine if a person leads a healthy and happy life? To find answers, the researchers began a long-term study involving 268 Harvard sophomores, whose ranks included a future president, John F. Kennedy. Eventually, the participants’ spouses and children were added to the study, which continues to this day. What did the scientists determine, after eight...
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...
Police officers who rescued children from frigid pond honored at Shepherd luncheon
The call came a minute after midnight. People were trapped inside a vehicle that had gone into a retention pond on a frigid January night on the northeast side of Indianapolis. Five Indianapolis police officers responded immediately to...
40 Years of Shepherd: A Continuum of Care
Over the past 40 years, Shepherd has been here, committed, loyal,...
40 Years of Shepherd: A Worn-Out Pencil Box with Matchbox Cars
For 40 years, Shepherd has served our neighbors from cradle to career to...
Podcasts
Why do people struggle to pay the bills? Our economy isn’t working for everyone.
Shepherd Community Center Executive Director Jay Height discusses the economic...
New ministry begins here. Power of internships is building new leaders.
Shepherd Community Center Executive Director Jay Height and Young Adult Coordinator...
Neighbors helping neighbors: How churches can engage with their communities
Shepherd Executive Director Jay Height and McKenzie Scott Lewis, senior director of...
Columns by Jay
‘Friendship recession’ is ravaging our mental and physical health. Here’s how we fight against it together.
It’s been called the friendship recession. And it’s having devastating consequences on our emotional, mental and physical health. Recent surveys indicate that Americans have significantly fewer close friends on average and are much more likely to say they have no close friends than in previous decades. The friendship recession is so severe that U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy has declared that the surge in Americans’ loneliness and isolation is a public health crisis. In May, Murthy...
Why loving your neighbors is the secret to a happy and healthy life
In 1938, researchers at Harvard University asked a vital question that remains highly relevant 85 years later: What are the factors that determine if a person leads a healthy and happy life? To find answers, the researchers began a long-term study involving 268 Harvard sophomores, whose ranks included a future president, John F. Kennedy. Eventually, the participants’ spouses and children were added to the study, which continues to this day. What did the scientists determine, after eight...
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...