Churches urged to set up cafés for people with dementia

Rev Steve Morris from St Cuthbert’s church North Wembley told Premier they opened a memory café to fill the gap left by follow-up care.

It caters for older people who have dementia, and their carers, and those who could be isolated without the social interaction.

Held every Thursday, guests are provided with tea and cake and are given the opportunity to play quizzes.

Rev Steve Morris told Premier: “The basic idea is about hospitality and doing memory games and we now think it’s a phenomenon that’s going to sweep across the country. There are memory cafés using our pattern opening everywhere; you can come and visit us and then they go and set them up. They are so simple but so wonderful.”

Rev Steve said sometimes he thinks it’s so simple he gets frustrated: “Why isn’t every church doing this? Any church in the country, you knock on the doors ten either side of where the church is you will find in at least four of those houses people who don’t see a living soul all week and I just don’t think we can close our eyes to this problem anymore.”

Rev Steve encouraged others to take their model and do the same.

“I think every single church in the country should start a memory café…It is the simplest thing you’ll ever do, all you need is a kettle and a warm welcome and if you contact us at St Cuthbert’s North Wembley we’ll even send you a year’s worth of quizzes!”

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Why Churches and Religious Organizations Should Celebrate This New Law .

Members of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Urban Search and Rescue team conduct a search operation at an area hit by Hurricane Maria in Yauco, Puerto Rico, Sept. 25, 2017. (Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters )

Previously we have told you how churches and places of worship were being discriminated against and were prohibited from even applying to receive grants from the Federal Emergency Management Association (FEMA) in the wake of natural disasters.

Thankfully, FEMA announced in…

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High School Teacher is Suspended without Pay for Calling Homosexuality a Sin

High School Teacher is Suspended without Pay for Calling Homosexuality a Sin



A high school teacher in New Jersey has been suspended for three years after she called homosexuality a sin on her personal Facebook page.


LifeSiteNews.com reports that Jenye “Viki” Knox taught at Union High School since 2000. Knox, who is an ordained minister, was a teacher and faculty advisor for a student-led Bible study at the school. She also had been a teacher for handicapped students.


Back in 2011, Knox criticized the school’s promotion of the LGBTQ lifestyle.


“Why parade your unnatural immoral behaviors before the rest of us?” Knox posted. “Homosexuality is a perverted spirit … I know sin and it breeds like cancer.”


She also called homosexuality “unnatural immoral behavior” that is “against the Nature and Character of God.”


Knox was suspended without pay and also accused of telling school officials that homosexual teachers were “targeting young and impressionable students for indoctrination into alternative sexual lifestyles.”


“We do not have to accept anything, anyone, or any behavior or any choices!” she declared.  “I do not have to tolerate anything others wish to do.”

She acknowledged, however: “I do have to love and speak and do what’s right!”


Knox’s attorney in the case against the school stated, “These Facebook posts that she made were done on her time, at her home, after school hours, on her home…

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Lakewood Church Marriage Pastors Reveal the No. 1 Issue in Christian Relationships and How to Combat It (Interview)

As the pastors of marriage and parenting at Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas, Clayton and Ashlee Hurst know a thing or two about relationships. They’ve been married for more than 20 years, have two children together, and counsel countless couples on how to develop a Christ-centered, meaningful marriage.

Yet, there was a time when their relationship was anything but healthy.

“We both grew up in Christian homes and our parents had stable marriages,” Ashlee told CP in an exclusive interview. “So we went into marriage thinking it would be easy. We put a lot of effort into the wedding day, but none into the days that followed. Slowly, because of our lack of knowledge of what marriage was truly about, we descended into a valley of hopeless and miscommunication, and pride.”

It’s only by the grace of God, Clayton said, that their marriage was able to heal after five years of suffering. Now, they want to help others avoid the pitfalls and traps that so easily entangle people in this world of romantic comedies and unrealistic, Nicholas Sparks-esque relationship expectations.

The Hursts share their story of struggle and pain, healing and forgiveness in their new book, Hope for Your Marriage: Experience God’s Greatest Desires for You and Your Spouse. They combine their…

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World is failing internally displaced people, Christian charity says

The number of internally displaced people has doubled in the two decades since the UN produced guidelines for nations on how to help them.

In 2016 alone the number of internally displaced people was the equivalent of one person being displaced every second.

 

Christian Aid is calling on world leaders to halt the rise.

Jane Backhurst, senior adviser on humanitarian policy and advocacy at Christian Aid tells Premier why the issue has been a priority for governments around the world.

Speaking on Premier’s News Hour, she explained: “Over the past year or two there’s been a lot of focus on the build up to the refugee and migrant compacts that will be the subject of major high-level conferences at the end of this year.

“We were hoping that internally displaced people would also be the subject of increased protections within those compacts but they’ve fallen out of the draft for those compacts.

“Given those increasing numbers… we really feel it’s time to turn attention to those people that are actually displaced inside their own country and not just those who had to flee outside and beyond their country’s borders which is the case for refugees and migrants.”

World Vision

 

The number of internally displaced people has nearly doubled – increasing by 10 million in the past four years to over 40 million worldwide.

This week, the UN member states…

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Are Selfies Evidence of the ‘Last Days’? John Piper Answers

(Screengrab)Pastor John Piper.

Theologian and Desiring God founder John Piper is weighing in on selfies, urging Christians and social media users to recognize that in a self-obsessed culture their self is actually meant to point to God.

In response to a question he was asked Monday about whether the large presence of selfies and self-centered social media is an indication that the last days are near — where 2 Timothy 3:1-2 speaks of “difficult times” and people being “lovers of self” — the theologian said yes and no.

“Vlogs, selfies, and self-focused social media are often (not always) an expression of the self-exaltation, self-preoccupation, and self-fascination of these last days,” Piper acknowledged.

“But no, these new technologies are not the emerging of such final experiences of sin. They’ve always been there. The new technologies are giving new ways to express old sins.”

While these are the last days, they are not the very last days, he continued, and Christians ought to wait in hopeful expectation of an all-satisfying Christ who will one day return.

“When Jesus came into the world as the long-expected Messiah, he declared the arrival of the kingdom of God, which the Old Testament anticipated as part of the last days,” Piper explained.

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9 Churches Burned to the Ground In New Wave of Attacks .

Meanwhile, at least 30 people were killed in two separate attacks by armed men, believed to be Fulani herdsmen, against Christian communities in Song LGA, also in Adamawa state.
Meanwhile, at least 30 people were killed in two separate attacks by armed men, believed to be Fulani herdsmen, against Christian communities in Song LGA, also in Adamawa state. (Hans/Pixabay)

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In Nigeria, a new wave of attacks has seen dozens killed in Christian communities across the country.

The violence has hit the northeastern state of Adamawa, one of the most…

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Olympic Figure Skating Legend Scott Hamilton Shares Powerful Testimony: ‘God Was There Every Single Time’

Olympic Figure Skating Legend Scott Hamilton Shares Powerful Testimony: ‘God Was There Every Single Time’



Legendary figure skater and announcer Scott Hamilton has been a staple of the sport since the 1980’s. He has been inducted into the US Olympics and World Figure Skating Halls of Fame. He also created the entertaining Stars on Ice program where he would often perform his signature backflip to the delight of audiences.


The backstory to Hamilton’s success, however, makes what he achieved all the more incredible. In an I Am Second video, Hamilton shares the numerous and serious health issues he struggled with throughout his life and skating career.


As a child, he suffered from an undiagnosed disease which stunted his growth. He shares that he went to the local skating club merely by accident, and that was the beginning of his journey on ice.


Hamilton went on to win four consecutive figure skating titles and took home the gold medal in the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo.


But that wasn’t the end of his health struggles. In 1997, he was forced to leave his skating career to be treated for testicular cancer. Due to the cancer treatment, Hamilton didn’t believe he could ever have children, although he and his wife, Tracie, badly wanted them.


Through these struggles, Hamilton says he learned to put his faith in God.


“I understand that through a strong relationship with Jesus you can endure anything. … God is there to guide…

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Cooperative Baptist Fellowship Lifts Ban on LGBT Staff for Some Roles

(Photo: Facebook)Cooperative Baptist Fellowship Executive Coordinator Suzii Paynter addresses Baptists in this undated photo.

The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, a Georgia-based network of 1,800 churches with missionaries in more than 30 countries around the world, announced Friday that it has lifted an 18-year hiring ban on practicing homosexuals for some roles but will not consider them for leadership roles in the organization.

“CBF is moving from a hiring policy focused exclusively on sexuality to a policy that focuses on Jesus and His work to transform the world,” CBF Executive Coordinator Suzii Paynter said of the organization’s new hiring policy. “We are a Fellowship, a big tent of faithful believers and autonomous, innovative churches in partnership. While we do not agree on everything, we have shown Baptists and others that we can come together in a relatively short amount of time, focus on what unites us and come of out it poised for a bright future.”

In the organization’s previous hiring policy, CBF leaders pointed to an adherence to a traditional biblical understanding of human sexuality as a requirement for employees.

“As Baptist Christians, we believe that the foundation of a Christian sexual ethic is faithfulness in marriage between a man and a woman and…

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Apple To Introduce 13-inch Model As New Entry-level

REUTERS/Norbert von der GroebenMedia and guests check out Apple’s latest thinner MacBook Air 11″ (L) and 13″ models and new operating system after attending a news conference at Apple Inc. headquarters in Cupertino, California October 20, 2010.

After years of being Apple’s entry-level laptop, fans may not see a MacBook Air 2018 on store shelves this year. The Cupertino tech giant is reportedly planning to release a new entry-level 13-inch MacBook in the second half of 2018 which is expected to be the company’s new entry-level Macbook.

Ever since Apple discontinued the MacBook in 2011, the MacBook Air became the lowest priced Apple laptop on the market starting at $999. Over the years, the company has kept the laptop relevant by upgrading its specs such as bumping the base model’s processor from 1.6 GHz to 1.8 in June 2017.

However, the laptop has been neglected upgrade-wise in recent years, having received minor tweaks since its last major revamp in 2015. The 11-inch MacBook Air was also discontinued entirely causing many fans to believe that the model is nearing obsolescence.

This belief was compounded by the news that Apple will be releasing a new entry-level 13-inch MacBook. A report by DigiTimes revealed that General Interface Solution (GIS) land more LCM (LCD module) orders from Apple most of which will be used on said Macbooks.

It’s currently unclear what form the new 13-inch MacBook model will take although Apple will probably make efforts to differentiate it from their flagship MacBook Pro. It will also likely retain LCD display technology with OLED technology being reserved for…

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