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Spokane youth assist in hurricane recovery

Medical mission leads to domestic violence efforts

Martin Marty speaks on global-local ties today

Mission opens women's and children's center

Whitworth starts master's in theology degree

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Teacher boosts life-long habits
In teaching health and fitness, and iin volunteer activities with The Links, Inc., Fannie Bush helps children and youth develop or change habits so they gain more from their education and can establish life-long health and fitness. As health and fitness teacher at Adams and Regal elementary schools, she knows that many children need mentoring and tutoring to meet WASL test requirements.  She also has a volunteer avenue to help make such assistance possible...... read more

Couple sow seeds to save soil
Lacking her husband’s farming heritage or any ties to farming, Ann Swannack knew little of soil erosion and conservation in the early years of their marriage. Her husband, Steve, is the fourth generation to farm the land where he grew up 18 miles west of St. John, land settled by his English immigrant ancestors. Now, however, they share a commitment to conserving the soil of the Palouse and keeping it healthy..... read more

Steve Swannock

Youth aid in hurricane recovery
Nearly three years after Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Gulf Coast, a group of Spokane volunteers continues to help pave the road to recovery.  Now that images of flooded homes and shocked victims no longer dominate the news, many have forgotten about the storm and its aftermath. For some, however, Katrina’s devastation continues to shape the lives of people they know—hurricane survivors with whom they’ve worked side-by-side.. read more

Youth in Waveland

Medical mission leads to efforts to challenge domestic violence
Nancy Mortlock, a Spokane nurse, works to combat domestic violence in Romania and Spokane. In 1999, she never guessed she would make more than 25 trips to Romania in the next decade.  Before a group from Fourth Memorial Church invited her to accompany their medical team there, she had hardly heard of the Eastern European country...... read more

Nancy Mortlock

Theologian sees global in age of instant contact with technology
While valuing face-to-face contact, theologian-author-columnist Martin Marty recognized that today’s technology affords new kinds of immediate local to global relationships.  His travels have made possible face-to-face global encounters, lectures and visits to former students..... read more

Martin Marty

Union Gospel Mission assists women and children in crisis center
By focusing on the hearts of women dealing with pain, homelessness, domestic violence, past imprisonment and mental illness, Union Gospel Mission’s Crisis Shelter for Women and Children helps women change their lives, said its director Rich Schaus.  Most women they deal with have never known the stability of a loving relationship.  So shelter staff are to love them “no matter what they do,” he said.... read more

Rich Schaus

Whitworth University starts master's degree in theology program
Whitworth University has embarked on a master’s degree in theology as one way to address the biblical and theological illiteracy its faculty perceives in the society and church.  The master’s degree in theology is a program it has long wanted to develop..... read more

Tim Dolan

Children fill halls of aging church
In a near-century-old church where the congregation’s average age is about 70, children from the East Central neighborhood gather in the basement to play.  Twice a week in the school year and a dozen times each month in the summer, school-age children come to Grace Lutheran Church to share a meal, spend time with other youth and talk to adults who want to make a difference in the children’s lives..... read more

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VOA designates 100th Safe Place in Spokane
Volunteers of America has designated the 100th Safe Place site since the program’s Spokane launch last April..... read more

Rising prices hit food banks
With the economic downturn causing rising food and fuel prices, Jason Clark, director of Second Harvest, said he heard through a recent survey of agencies that they are seeing more clients. . read more

Christ Clinic builds new clinic
Christ Clinic will break ground at 11 a.m., Tuesday, May 6, at 2410 N. Monroe, to begin construction of a 4,800-square-foot clinic adjacent to Christ Kitchen..... read more

Fair trade shop closes
After 15 years in business as a nonprofit fair-trade retail outlet, Global Folk Art in the Community Building at 35 W. Main closed its doors as of April 30..... read more

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Julia Esquivel Guatemalan Poet Theologian cancels visit to Spokane

 

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