Periodically over the past two years, we’ve spoken with several local Christian counselors about emotional and spiritual health during times of tension and uncertainty. For this week, we spoke again with David Creek. I heard someone joke that COVID is entering its...
The recent $10,000 gift from First Free Rockford is helping Tabitha Centers to reopen across Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo. During the COVID-19 pandemic’s first three months, all 92 Tabitha Centers closed in Kinshasa, DRC’s capital city of 14.6 million...
by Jessi Uran | 6-minute read Sunflowers never make it at our homestead. Every year, with ideal hopes and renewed resolve, I try to get the open-faced, golden giants of the flower world to take. Every year I am met with new obstacles. One year we got such heavy...
by Jim Killam | 7-minute read Jim Rosene is president of Kids Around the World, a Rockford-based ministry that has impacted millions of children’s lives globally. We spoke with him in advance of First Free’s Million Reasons2Serv event on Sept. 12. Our church plans to...
by Jim Killam | 10-minute read With a new sermon series under way, we spoke with Lead Pastor Luke Uran about the book of Nehemiah, leadership and prayer for our church as we enter a new season. Nehemiah would not make the list of Best-Loved Bible...
by Jim Killam | 6-minute read One in four. That is the number of American adults ages 18-24 who “seriously considered suicide” in the month before a national survey this summer. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released the alarming statistics from a...
