Shiloh Outreach Center Case Study

Red Rocks Church (RRC) is a non-denominational church located in multiple locations throughout the Denver-Metro area. Red Rocks strives to be one church in many places with campuses in Golden, Lakewood, Littleton, Denver, and Arvada. Red Rocks’ first campus, where it originally started, is located in Golden, Colorado. The church’s mission statement says that their prime objective is, “…to make Heaven more crowded, by welcoming prodigals home.”

In his highly influential book, The Forgotten Ways1, Hirsch maintains that every Christian has within them Apostolic Genius that needs to be awakened – the ability to be a part of transforming society through an organic missional lifestyle. This awakening is deemed to be critical since

These are the issue that the modern African American pastor must address currently. His/Her preaching must speak true, authentic words for the oppressed, the down-trodden, the deprived, the captives, the poor, the rich, the illiterate, as well as to the intellect. Presently, the hostile moment of worldliness is a belief that life is to be realized at any cost to self. Thus, here lies the Christian paradox: through the Gospel we have to see Jesus as a truth relevant to humanity’s need to rise higher. The Gospel is to be preached to all. It is a Gospel to save the humanity of African American people but the gospel is beneficial for all. Therefore, the African American preacher’s message must have within its content something more than that which causes the people to enter in a foot-patting, hand-clapping, highly emotional, ecstatic worldly experience, but also a content which serves to balance the life of God’s people on earth.

In the story "Shiloh", by Bobbie Ann Mason, characters Leroy and Norma Jean go through changes in their life as each begin to discover what their real identity is, and what it is they actually want out of their marriage. For some people this may take years, and for others they may never realize it, while merely trying to grasp on to the past, or the way they think things should have turned out. In this short story, Mason uses a couple in their thirties to portray people who are experiencing these types of changes, and depict how they deal with the situation. In the end, the couple is faced with dealing with the inevitable fact that they indeed cannot save their marriage; it was a battle they could not win. However, before the story

Since its’ inception, the Southern Baptist Convention has stood in unity against the consumption of alcohol for recreational and social purposes. However, there has been a growing group of Southern Baptists that are challenging this historically held position. Richard Land and Duke Barrett write a defense of Southern Baptists historical position on abstinence from alcohol.

1. Any figure in history who strained to accomplish their ambitions, will “give you reasons why you shouldn’t give up” (346).

“I have carefully and thoroughly read the entire book as assigned.” Throughout David Platt’s book, “Radical : Taking Back Your Faith From the American Dream”, he encourages the reader to take a look at their life and see whether or not Christ is all they need to impact their life for Jesus in a radical way. He asks the reader to carefully examine their life, and see if there are areas that perhaps the Lord would desire for change to take place. Platt challenges the Church to step up and see the urgency in missions realizing that this is the way God designed the lost and dying world to hear the Good News of the Risen and Glorified Savior Jesus Christ.

The facility that I am placed at for my field practicum is called Mary’s Outreach Center. Mary’s Outreach Center is located in Rochester, New York and has only been in business for six years. Initially this program only passed out clothes to about a dozen refugees. The refugees who received clothing from Mary Outreach Center started to tell others about the clothes that they were receiving, which brought dozens of other refugees. After about one year of being housed in a small room, Mary’s Place moved into a historical Catholic Church built in 1917, because they started to have too many people and not enough room to service them. The church was gutted out on the inside, besides a select few

The Shiloh Outreach Center is offering individuals who in the pass has made the choice not to complete high school. The Shiloh Outreach Center has a place to achieve that goal for a better future for themselves and their families.

As my future endeavors as a social worker include opening a youth center, I enjoyed my visit at the Brotherhood Crusade Youth Source Center. Brotherhood Crusade Youth Service Center is located at 4401 Crenshaw Boulevard in Los Angeles, California. It is a non-profit community based facility with many components. Programs they provide are Youth Development, Financial Literacy, Business Enrichment and Sports. According to their website, the mission of Brotherhood Crusade is to remove and/or help individuals overcome the barriers that deter their pursuit of success in life and facilitate opportunities for a better quality of life by effectuating improved health & wellness, facilitating academic success, promoting personal, social & economic growth, providing access to artistic excellence & cultural awareness, increasing financial literacy and building community agencies & institutions.

In 2006, Love Center Family Church (LCFC) was birthed out of the vision of Pastor Joseph Hill. He along with his wife created LCFC to “Reach out to others with God’s love.” LCFC operates as a 501c3 company and is guided by the regulations that govern non-profit organizations. Love Center Family Church is led by the founding pastor and the decisions are made by the board of directors. The church is a storefront church located in Suffolk, VA and since its start Love Center Family Church has grown from 10 members to over 250. The church offers various ministries within the church such as the Men’s, Women’s and Children’s ministries but also reach out to the community through their outreach ministry. While the church is still relatively small

The short story “Life in the Iron-Mills” by Rebecca Harding Davis is about a town that centers around an iron mill and the workers whose lives revolve around the mill. At the beginning of the story, this becomes evident when the narrator says, “The mills were deserted on Sundays, except by the hands who fed the fires, and those who had no lodgings and slept usually on the ash-heaps” (1715). The only day that there are not workers at the iron mill is on Sunday because most of Sunday is spent at church. In the short story, Davis begins to suggest that there are strong, spiritual elements throughout the story. Most people who think about God believe that God and faith can bring those who are struggling out of the dark cloud that seems to be encompassing their lives.

What is the mission of the church in the city? Before Jesus left this world he commissioned the church to take God’s redemptive message around the world, which includes the urban centers of the world. Jesus instruction was to make disciples all over the world. When Jesus spoke these words, he was giving the church her marching orders, just as an invading army conquering territory the church is called to do battle with the forces of evil in the city. Robert C. Linthicum has spent over twenty years working and teaching in third world countries who insist that urban ministry be grounded in biblical theology. As a result, this book is the reflection of interactions with a third world pastor to develop a theology adequate for the urban setting. The purpose of this book is to develop from the Scripture a systematic consistent theology of the city. The author’s basic thesis that this world is a battleground between God and Satan inside our cities (23). The battleground is between both the god of Babylon (Baal, Satan) and the God of Jerusalem (Yahweh, the Lord) for domination and control (25).

The gospel is the central message of this book, and the authors pause to clarify the gospel before moving on. It is clear in this book that The author 's are all about “serving the least of these”. What is also apparent, particularly in the chapter titled the whole gospel, is that the authors are passionate about “saving the lost.” T.A.C promotes building the local church through good biblical teaching and fellowship, sharing the gospel with unbelievers so they might have eternal life, and loving and ministering to the people in the city in order to put the God who is love on display. The author teach that the brokenness in our lives that sin has created are not just punitive. The effects of sin have spread to our economy, our housing, our jobs, and even the urban planning of the city. Repenting and believing in Jesus Christ has more benefits than just a ticket into heaven. The gospel can create a generous, bountiful, productive city with passionate residents that have dreams like

My project is about the Crossroads Community Center. Crossroads is an organization focused on campus diversity. Crossroads originate many successful activities to engage on-campus diversity. Such as African American History Month, Latino Heritage Month and Sustained Dialogue. But the issue of Crossroads now is that there are less international students paying attention to. Therefore, this project is to assist Crossroads find a better solution to attract more international students. As an international student, I know the life situation of international students. Without family and close friends support, international students study abroad because they eager to know different cultures. However, not all international students achieve their goal