Recently two of us from The Philip Center spent four days with 20schemes in Scotland’s inner cities of Edinburgh and Glasgow. 20schemes plants churches among the council estates, or schemes, where drug addiction, alcoholism, poverty and despair are the norm. And where churches are rarer than a sunny day. In Read more…
Scott and Judy Mason have long been friends of NEU Church Planting staff and supporters of Summer OFF. But recently they had the chance to come to Providence and participate in Summer OFF for themselves — what we call a “vision trip”. Here is what Scott writes about their visit: Read more…
Lara Holt is the former Global Outreach Coordinator at Stone Hill Church in Princeton, NJ, and she came for a visit to see Summer OFF in action last summer. Here she shares her reflections. Thank you Lara! New in my role as Global Outreach Coordinator, I heard such wonderful things Read more…
At the end of Summer OFF a number of years ago, I was helping to clean up. There was a line of kids waiting for a new Bible — we were giving away as many as we could at the end of the summer. Most of the kids were young, Read more…
By Christine H. Christine is a dear friend of the Philip Center staff and was one of the founding leaders of Summer OFF—the idea was born out of her prayers and conversations with a few other families from Godspeed Church. Over the coming week, Christine will be sharing some Read more…
Jermaca Brown came to Rhode Island from her home state of Texas to intern with Summer OFF in 2015. Now, she lives here and serves on staff with Faith Community Church as the Community Outreach Coordinator and Youth Director. We loved having Jermaca as an intern, and we are excited Read more…