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Common Steps

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Common Steps is  non-profit (501c3) provider of educational and support services for people struggling with relationship issues heightened by life events such as death, separation, divorce, remarriage, and career changes as well as positive events such as marriage, the birth of a child and parenting. Our focus is on helping local churches and communities with relationship education using nationally recognized resources that provide program participants with encouragement and healing.

History

Common Steps was formed in 2001 to address the needs of families affected by divorce. The Common Steps Strategy was created to move families from hopelessness to strength by refocusing parents and children on how God can help them heal and overcome. While many other ministries, support groups, churches, therapists, attorneys, and government agencies seek to help in some way the Common Steps Strategy exists to:

  1. Reach out to communities through campaigns, such as the Common Steps Networks
  2. Identify and involve local resources for these individuals and families
  3. Encourage local churches and other advocates to get involved
  4. Help extend the reach of and improve the effectiveness of other Christian ministries

Contact:

David Carolan, Founder
(512) 850-4008
www.commonsteps.org

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Global Advance

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Global Advance exists to help fulfill the Great Commission of Jesus Christ by empowering national church and business leaders to evangelize and disciple their nations and plant churches among the unreached, by encouraging the church to reach its full missions potential, and by enlisting prayer partners for global spiritual harvest.

How It Works

Global Advance believes there are three keys to changing nations. These keys are pastoral leaders, marketplace leaders and women in leadership. Our ministry focuses on these three areas to encourage evangelism, church planting and missionary service. For more on each of these three keys, choose either pastors, marketplace leaders or women from our home page or menu at the top.

Contact:

Jonathan Shibley, President
Global Advance
(214) 228-7508
www.globaladvance.org

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The Busby Foundation

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The Busby Foundation was created in November 2001 by friends and colleagues of the late Bo Busby to honor his life and legacy. Bo courageously fought ALS and yet still helped other, less fortunate fellow ALS patients and their families by providing assistance in many ways. It is in that spirit that we continue to serve other Central Texas families touched by this tragic disease.

The Foundation provides support and assistance to Central Texas ALS families in an effort to comfort patients and address the overwhelming demands and lifestyle changes that come with the disease.

Examples of the way we help include:

  • Providing financial “gap” assistance until federal agencies’ aid begins.
  • Directing families on available resources in managing these challenges.
  • Constructing wheelchair and handicap accessibility features into their home.
  • Assisting with home healthcare and nursing aid.
  • Supplying transportation vouchers to help with hospital visits.
  • Donating services to help families secure wheelchairs, breathing equipment, stair lifts and other mobility devices.
  • Showing compassion and empathy in demonstrating the community of ready and willing support in their battle.

Contact:

Don Busby, Founder
(512) 694-4244
http://www.busbyals.org/

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Youth Transition Network

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TN began as Ministry Edge in Arizona when a visionary idea was formed by a small group of ministries at Arizona State University. As the project grew, it became evident that it would require a focused effort to effectively address the research that 70% of Christian students exit the church in their junior and senior year is high school and following graduation. This gave rise to Ministry Edge in May 2004.

This multi-dimensional issue requires ministries to work together in an unprecedented manner. As a result, the National Network of Youth Ministries and Mission America became involved with the effort to decrease the loss of youth in 2005 forming the Youth Transition Network with the assets of Ministry Edge. The Youth Transition Network first created a coalition of ministries to work together to prepare and connect our high school graduates. The coalition built LiveAbove.com that has 4,700 ministries on 3,000 campuses and preparation events and resources for youth ministries.

In the process of developing videos to help motivate students YTN began interviewing students related to their transition. These interviews uncovered issues related to why students wanted to or had checked out on the church.

This lead to focus groups and video interviews of high school students related to the reasons they wanted to leave the church, the expectations they felt they could not live up to and their relationship with their parents. This qualitative research lead to the development of seminars and retreats designed to reboot the culture youth ministries and to help parents adjust from parenting to shepherding their teens.

Today YTN brings its research to senior pastors, youth pastors, parents and to youth groups through seminars, retreats, student videos and events designed to address the issues that are dampening our teens response to their parents and the truth we teach.

Contact:

Jeff Schadt, Founder and President
jschadt@youthtransitionnetwork.org 
(928) 308-7340
www.ytn.org

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