by LiteracyConnexus | Feb 5, 2014 | Collaboration, Computer literacy, Fifty Ways
Focus on the word computer. Expand thinking. Think more as in broadband and computer. We’ll get to financial education next time. 100 million Americans lack broadband at home. Imagine that. You are not among them. If it’s sad (and it is) that many families lack...
by LiteracyConnexus | Jan 22, 2014 | Collaboration, Fifty Ways
Collaborate with other churches to minister to both the literacy and nutritional needs of children in the community. Do you remember the story last summer about Agape Baptist Church in Cleburne ? Pastor Julio Robles stepped up to the plate when he learned of an...
by LiteracyConnexus | Jan 8, 2014 | Church-and-School Partnerships, Fifty Ways
My first thought on this way your church can bless your community through literacy: “It takes one to know one.” And not a playground retort. Rather, it takes a retired educator (teacher) to know how to honor, celebrate and support teachers at a local school. Case...
by LiteracyConnexus | Oct 30, 2013 | Fifty Ways
2. Put the lens of literacy on everything the church does and make education a priority in your church. Encourage church leadership to act on this. I once had a camera with the capacity to interchange lenses: telephoto, wide angle and portrait. Now, that’s done...
by LiteracyConnexus | Oct 16, 2013 | Fifty Ways
Congregations have the opportunity to address needs all around them through literacy ministry. Take a journey with us through 50 Ways to explore the possibilities. We’ll use our new poster as a guide, blogging our way through the church, community, and capitol. But...
by LiteracyConnexus | Oct 2, 2013 | Fifty Ways
Recently Literacy Connexus received a grant from The Trull Foundation to update our Fifty Ways Your Church Can Bless Your Community Through Literacy poster. We consolidated and combined, added to and subtracted from the first edition. Most of the items on the first...
