Collective impact
A Time to Remember
“I could feel my heart pounding in my chest; every other sound was drowned out by shouting people around me. I felt the car moving and looked up to see the hands and faces of people against our windshield as members of the mob grabbled for the car, hoping to stop it and have their way …
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Vital Families in Schools: Providing the Resource of RELATIONSHIP
Pictured: Pastor Sandra Tracy, Mary Grace Harper, and Doug Kramer at the Java Creek coffee shop inside Otter Creek Assembly of God Church. All proceeds go toward providing resources through school partnerships and other missions outreaches. The Vital Families in Schools Initiative is about churches partnering with schools to strengthen families through moving from a …
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“Will You Pray for My Grandma?”
Vital Families in Schools: Churches Plan for “Prayer Walks” Around Schools and Surrounding Neighborhoods Before School Starts By: Mary Carol Pederson Pastor Greg Ferguson and Larry Daniel have been a part of a team leading a powerful, long-term Prayer Walk initiative at First LR, a campus of First NLR Assembly of God Church. “We have …
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Churches Unite Around Church-School Partnerships at June 5th Summit
“The speakers were incredible. My whole church should have heard each one – they were talking about things that are so important.” – Children’s Ministry Director “Thanks so much for all that was poured into us!” – Church Staff Pastor At the Second Annual Church-School Partnership Leader Equipping Summit, leaders and volunteers from 18 churches and 4 …
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From Dream to Reality
By Jason Ancarrow, Central Arkansas Marriage Initiative Team Leader It is easy to get caught up with an idea that presents something we can both chase after and attain. Take for instance the “American Dream”. Though we see many different views on what that would actually look like today, some of the same core longings …
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God’s Strategy for Impacting Violence in Little Rock
By Mary Carol Pederson, Vital Families in Schools Team Leader “No longer will violence be heard in your land, nor ruin or destruction within your borders, but you will call your walls Salvation and your gates Praise.” Isaiah 60:8 If you are following the news at all, the recent increase in violent crime, shootings, homicides, in …
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