40 Years of Shepherd: A Safe Place to Play
Happy childhood memories are made on the playground. For our neighborhood...
40 Years of Shepherd: Walking Alongside Our Neighbors: A Heart Like Jesus
Throughout the New Testament, Jesus tells His followers that the Holy...
40 Years of Shepherd: Breaking the Cycle of Unemployment
There’s a little shed on what looks like an abandoned lot across from the Speedway at the intersection of East Washington and State Street. Often, a group of men can be seen standing around just waiting at all hours of the day. This is a stop for day laborers. Individuals who do not have full-time employment but have skills and abilities to be...
Podcasts
Shepherd steps up to meet the need for affordable housing
Executive Director Jay Height explains how Shepherd’s partnership with Arbor Homes and...
Gaps in SNAP benefits contribute to hunger crisis in Indianapolis
Shepherd Community Center Executive Director Jay Height discusses why gaps in SNAP...
Shepherd partners with IPS high school to promote students’ mental health
Shepherd Community Center Chief Engagement Office Phil Edwards and Arsenal Technical...
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: Breaking the Cycle of Unemployment
There’s a little shed on what looks like an abandoned lot across from the Speedway at the intersection of East Washington and State Street. Often, a group of men can be seen standing around just waiting at all hours of the day. This is a...
40 Years of Shepherd: A Safe Place to Play
Happy childhood memories are made on the playground. For our neighborhood...
40 Years of Shepherd: Walking Alongside Our Neighbors: A Heart Like Jesus
Throughout the New Testament, Jesus tells His followers that the Holy...
Podcasts
Shepherd steps up to meet the need for affordable housing
Executive Director Jay Height explains how Shepherd’s partnership with Arbor Homes and...
Gaps in SNAP benefits contribute to hunger crisis in Indianapolis
Shepherd Community Center Executive Director Jay Height discusses why gaps in SNAP...
Shepherd partners with IPS high school to promote students’ mental health
Shepherd Community Center Chief Engagement Office Phil Edwards and Arsenal Technical...
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,...