The city of Fort Worth, Texas is trying a different approach to their gang dilemma. They are bringing lawsuits against gang members to disrupt and prevent gang activity. The AP story on this brings up many issues with this practice because of the profiling involved and the gang member testimony that ultimately the lawsuits won’t…

Greg Fitzgerald, part of the team at UYWI, read the 108 page report that came to the conclusion that community-based programs (vs. law enforcement) is the answer to youth violence and gang involvement. We believe that it important for the UYWI network, and so we’re passing this information on to you with links to the…

Brenda Salter McNeil in a video clip from Christianity Today talking about longevity in cross-cultural ministry.

i was hosting the second south bay coalition meeting at mission ebenezer church and Melissa Pirraglio from teen challenge in south gate shared that a lady whose family had been homeless, but had been active in volunteering with the youth group “God Squad”. here is a portion of an email melissa sent to some of…

US consumers ages 13 to 17 spend more time with media overall than other age groups do, and their total media time has grown by more than two and a half hours per day since May 2004. read full article here

Cory Miller at Church Communications Pro came up with a decent idea to use Tumblr as your spiritual journal because of it’s ability to use quickly as you would a notepad. I personally also have been using this for a few months to dump videos and images I’ve wanted to remember. I think it would…