by Shane Claiborne Sat, May 17, 2008 Amid the ruins of an abandoned cathedral where homeless families were living, Shane and his community caught a fresh vision of what it means to be the Church. Let’s move beyond complaining about the Church we see, and let’s start becoming the Church we dream of. With ancient…

Fuller’s Center for Youth and Family Ministry has been renamed Fuller Youth Institute, and today the transition became official. FYI brings with it a new logo, new branding, new website, and new quality content. All the things you’ve known and loved CYFM for, you will continue to look to FYI for. And if you didn’t…

For those of you who pack up the kids, pack up the volunteers, and fly, bus, or drive to the luxurious campus at Azusa Pacific university each year; this is news you will want to hear as you prepare and budget for 2009. UYWI09 will happen at APU on May 14-16, 2009. So now you…

A new CNN article brings to light with America’s preference to be segregated on Sunday morning (at church). Read through the CNN article to see how race is impacting individual church experiences and some good information about interracial church norms and where we as Christians can move from “they” to “we.” – article link, Why…

from CCDA: “(John Perkins’) surgery went very well. John is doing great, resting in his room, and will hopefully be able to go home in 2-3 days. He was told to plan on a three week recovery at home and then he can resume his “peaceful” life. Thank you, each and every one of you,…

Dr. John Perkins, the UYWI07 speaker and founder of CCDA has been admitted to the hospital with health issues. Dr. Perkins will be undergoing surgery went into surgery today at 2pm CST 8pm EST. We ask that you keep him and his family in prayer. Check at ccda.org for updates. more JP links: – The…

We’ve asked the UYWI staff a series of questions and put them online as extended profiles. So now if you wanted to know where Fred Oduyoye went to school, what John Lewis’s most unusual job was, or what Julie Herrick does when she’s not working, now you can find out. Right now we have 13…

I ran across this article today while researching fatherless and divorce fallout statistics in the midwest. It appears the National Center for Health Statistics has some recent national research to show some dramatic numbers in this area. These are the finding based on the Wall Street Journal article: The nation’s out-of-wedlock birth rate is 38%.…

I arrived at Santa Ana College at 7 am this last Saturday to be a part of a year long collaboration between Orange County Juvenile Probation, Catholic and Protestant Detention, UYWI and some other gang specialist organizations. We hosted almost 200 leaders for the “Lives Worth Saving” Gang Summit. It was truly a day to…

Because of the demographic we aim for, there’s a lot of good people who want to hire y’all. It means that nationwide, dozens of organizations are continuously posting their new openings or positions on our site to try and get it in front of the right person’s eye. Well, we’ve added more (and I know…