Word: parachurch
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...Despite all that's been done in youth ministry in the past 20 to 40 years, at the present rate we're looking at only a small percentage of people who are teens now becoming Bible-believing evangelicals as adults," laments Ron Luce, president of TeenMania, the parachurch organization that has attracted more than 200,000 teens to its stadium-worship events and missions activities already this year. To lower the odds of that outcome, TeenMania will work with 100,000 churches starting next year, planning ministry events aimed at attracting more young people to the pews. The goal...
...President "will miss John DiIulio." But he won't miss the controversy DiIulio stirred up. When Bush's plan to fund religious charities ran into surprising resistance from Christian conservatives worried about government meddling in church affairs, DiIulio lashed out, labeling them "predominantly white, exurban, evangelical and national parachurch leaders." And when word leaked that DiIulio's No. 2, Don Eberly, and Bush adviser Karl Rove were entertaining an inappropriate request from the Salvation Army--to defend the charity's right to discriminate against gays in exchange for its support for Bush's bill--DiIulio was furious. After repeated false...
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