On Saturday September 28, Churches Together London and Hillside Church hostedMarcel Lebrun, creator of the12 Neighbors video series. He challenged the audience of almost 70 people to “spend themselves” in order to act and think differently about how to love one’s neighbor. The context for t...
" volunteer Lydia Wong said. "We've had a year to prepare for this. This is not a surprise, and yet we still have the city plan for new arrivals in Chicago is to be dumped on a sidewalk."
focusing on a turn-of-the-century neighborhood just west of Chicago's downtown "Loop." Secular membership associations in the area structured their members' lives around ethnic loyalty, brotherhood, sisterhood and class consciousness in much the same way that churches organized their members' lives...
from 1907, 1908, 1949. He was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown in 1946. One third of the great baseball lingo "Tinkers, to Evans to Chance," heralding one of the greatest double play combos in the sport. Joe Tinker was the Chicago Cubs...
But the police would tell the complainers that the church people had turned a crime infested downtown neighborhood into one of the most peaceful districts in LA. Thus, they were not going to interfere with them. On the other hand the older saints did urge the young people to respect the ...
In 1893 William Lees Judson, a Civil War veteran, painter of Indian encampments for the Canadian government and headmaster of a Chicago art school, was told by doctors that he had six months to live. With visions of surrendering his final days beneath palm trees and blue, balmy skies, he...
The tour begins at First Congregational, located at 256 Chicago St. in Elgin."We're right down there in the heart of what people call 'Holy Hill,' " said Turnquist, a local historian who also writes a column for the Daily Herald.Elgin founder James T. Gifford was willing to donate ...
On 1 January, the Gouzhuang church (勾庄教会) in Liangzhu Town (良渚镇), Yuhang District (余杭区) was told to tear down the cross of the church. It was said that Provincial Secretary Xia Baolong (夏宝龙) went on an inspection tour of the town Zhoushan (舟山) on 8 January. As he ...