This year, the Foster Support Faith Alliance (a ministry of Light up the City) has expanded our purpose beyond building a bridge between churches and the local foster care system, to also equippingchurches to engage in this valuable ministry. We’re working on connecting churches to needed resources and one of the most requested resource was trauma-informed caregiver training, so that the Church could be a welcoming place to anyone exposed to significant trauma in their lives (including children in the foster care system, foster parents, bio parents, etc..) We know that we, as church leaders, can’t encourage our congregation members to live out the gospel by becoming licensed foster parents,
Today's blog will only be our recap video from the 2019 Advance! Over the next 4 weeks, every Thursday, we will be releasing the full length videos of each of our keynote talks from the conference. So be on the lookout for those! Please watch the video below, and thanks again to everyone who was involved in this years Advance! - Light Up the City Team
Light Up the City has a goal of seeing: A Healthy Church Network in Every City. In the last 5 years we have seen this vision become realized in many cities, and we are grateful to be in a position where we can “Spur one another on toward love and good deeds.” (Heb. 10:24) At our Advance event, we do our best to create or develop local networks by pulling together key leaders in a city and giving them time to reflect together over what it means to be the Body of Christ together in their city. Our 5th Annual Advance event is now behind us. We took the two days to cover each of the four elements of a healthy network, with a powerful speaker and a time of discussion at each city table. We also h
