A chance encounter, a heartfelt story, and a reminder of how Shepherd blesses so many lives
Beth Brown was with her family at dinner recently at a Cracker Barrel...
Shepherd Community receives grant from Valinhos Foundation to foster mental health services for families
Shepherd Community Center has received a grant from the Valinhos...
40 Years of Shepherd: A Celebration of Sacrificial Service and Faithful Leadership
At Shepherd, we want to create a place that feels safe for our neighbors to come, a place they want to go, a place where they can find authentic community, and a place where they can find hope for the next 40 years. For 30 years, Jay Height has been a champion for Shepherd’s mission and vision to break the cycle of poverty for our neighbors and...
Podcasts
How a mentor made a lasting difference in this pastor’s life
Shepherd Community Center Executive Director Jay Height and McKenzie Scott Lewis, senior...
Christian compassion has deep roots in American history
Shepherd Community Center Executive Director Jay Height and historian Dan Miller discuss...
Shepherd launches a major expansion of its health, housing and education ministries
Executive Director Jay Height talks about Shepherd Community Center’s celebration of 40...
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,...
40 Years of Shepherd: A Celebration of Sacrificial Service and Faithful Leadership
At Shepherd, we want to create a place that feels safe for our neighbors to come, a place they want to go, a place where they can find authentic community, and a place where they can find hope for the next 40 years. For 30 years, Jay...
A chance encounter, a heartfelt story, and a reminder of how Shepherd blesses so many lives
Beth Brown was with her family at dinner recently at a Cracker Barrel...
Shepherd Community receives grant from Valinhos Foundation to foster mental health services for families
Shepherd Community Center has received a grant from the Valinhos...
Podcasts
How a mentor made a lasting difference in this pastor’s life
Shepherd Community Center Executive Director Jay Height and McKenzie Scott Lewis, senior...
Christian compassion has deep roots in American history
Shepherd Community Center Executive Director Jay Height and historian Dan Miller discuss...
Shepherd launches a major expansion of its health, housing and education ministries
Executive Director Jay Height talks about Shepherd Community Center’s celebration of 40...
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,...