Stories tagged with: singles

• 'Chair for one': Creating community for singles as onsite worship resumes

  by Diana Chandler, posted Thursday, May 28, 2020 (4 years ago)

  

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  DULUTH, Ga. (BP) -- Singles ministry consultant Paul "P.J." Dunn has visited several churches planning to resume onsite worship during the COVID-19 pandemic.

  "So there's no chair for one?" Dunn asked one pastor who was grouping sanctuary chairs for social distancing. "He just kind of smiled and said, 'Well if we did that, we couldn't have as many people.' ... So singles didn't take a priority in that. And he didn't mean it negatively, but socially, that's just kind of how we're trained, is that you come in a couple, you come in a group. You don't come alone." Read More

• Christian clinics to offer contraceptives to singles

  by Diana Chandler, posted Friday, November 08, 2019 (4 years ago)

  

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  AUSTIN, Texas (BP) -- A network of Christian women's health centers in Texas offering the Gospel to all clients will begin providing contraceptives in March, 2020, to single women, according to the network's CEO who is a Southern Baptist evangelical.

  The Source, a merger of eight formerly independent Christian crisis pregnancy centers, sees the new service as the best way to fulfill the biblical mandate to love your neighbor as yourself, CEO Andy Schoonover told Baptist Press Friday (Nov. 8). Read More

• FIRST-PERSON: The singles multitude

  by Diana Davis, posted Tuesday, February 03, 2015 (9 years ago)

  PENSACOLA, Fla. (BP) -- Author Diana Davis sets forth 10 ideas how churches can show the value of single adults and involve them in ministry. Read More

• FIRST-PERSON: The singles multitude

  by Diana Davis, posted Monday, January 26, 2015 (9 years ago)

  PENSACOLA, Fla. (BP) -- Author Diana Davis sets forth 10 ideas how churches can show the value of single adults and involve them in ministry. Read More