For Kids … Nevada Is The … Worst

The 2012 Kids Count Data Book on the wellbeing of children was released a couple weeks ago. Sad news for Nevada: We rank 49th in economic wellbeing. 46th in health. 50th in education. 41st on family and community indexes. Some other findings:  In 2010, 22% of Nevada children under the age of 18 lived in…

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Ecuador Visit!

Arriving in Ecuador today!Our church has partnered with three other churches and two ministries – Stadia and Compassion International – to construct a building in the small, poor town of Monte Olivo. In that building we are starting a church, which will meet on Sundays. The other six days we are putting in an educational…

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Verve Is Here

One thing I know about church is that it’s hard to go to one if you don’t know it exists. And one thing I know about Las Vegas is that there is so much going on, it’s so loud, that it’s hard for people to get people’s attention. That’s why in our first year of…

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Online Verve Services – In the Middle of the Night!

When we moved to Vegas we interviewed over 300 locals.  One thing we learned is that many locals work from 4 pm to midnight, or 6 pm to 2 am, and then live their lives from when they get off of work (going out to eat, shopping, partying, etc.) until morning. Then they sleep from…

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Proud

Back in January Verve committed to partner with three other churches in building a school and a church in a poverty-sticken town in Ecuador called Monte Olivo. We had to raise $25,000 to make that happen. For a relatively small church, and a new church filled with new- and non-Christians, it felt like a huge…

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