By Tom Campisi
The Tri-State Voice is celebrating its 20th anniversary with some major changes and upgrades. We are now printing quarterly instead of monthly, while our online blog edition will be updated weekly.
By Rachel Mari
Rev. Brad Gray, a pastor at Calvary Temple in Wayne, NJ, saw firsthand the fury and devastation unleashed by Hurricane Irene. But he also was a witness as the power of God came in like a flood.
Borst Landscape and Design will hold its annual clothing drive from Monday, October 3 through Friday, October 21, at company headquarters, 260 West Crescent Avenue in Allendale, N.J. Area residents are asked to bring new or gently used clothing for men, women and children, including outerwear, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. A truck will be parked outside the Borst office where donors may deposit their clothing donations.
By Daniel Mann
ABC News learned that Pat Robertson had foolishly stated that someone he knew had the right to divorce his wife because she had Alzheimer’s disease. Predictably, ABC produced a neurosurgeon who understandably called Robertson on his shameful and heartless position.
Steve Wolfe
By Rachel Mari
Bringing the Gospel to an indigenous people group—that is what missionary Steven Wolfe is doing in his own backyard—or nearby parking lot. Through his work with Solid Foundation Skate Park in Midland Park, NJ, the ministry is reaching hundreds of local youth and their families every year.
If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.â€Â – 2 Chronicles 7:14
By Jeremy Del Rio
By Bishop Donald Hilliard, Jr.
We’re living in a strange and peculiar hour. Historians are sure to mark this as one of the most stressful and fear filled periods of all time. In an increasing secularized culture, many of us have been conditioned to give into fear and rather than take courage and activate faith in the midst of our storms. Fear and worry are among the most disabling factors of post 9-11 life.
By Tom Campisi
On September 11, 2001, as the World Trade Center came crashing down in a cloud of dust and New York City was shook to its core, two pastors from Lower Manhattan came together  to form a network that quickly emerged as a strong tower and refuge for a shell-shocked community.
This fall, there are a myriad of conferences and seminars in Metro New York City. From the 51st annual Christian Ministries Convention to the New York City Leadership Center’s 2nd Annual Movement Day, the menu is extensive and rich.
By Tom Campisi
As the battle to preserve biblical marriage appeared that it would come down to a single vote or two in the New York Senate, Dr. Joe Mattera and City Action Coalition enlisted the help of a potential game changer—former New York Giants’ Super Bowl champ David Tyree.
By Rachel Mari
For Jeff Boucher, parenting is something worth writing about. A Wyckoff, NJ-based pastor who has worked with youth for more than 25 years, Boucher recently launched a new blog to “help parents move their kids from apathy to energy.â€
Boucher, senior pastor of Powerhouse Christian Church, is also is the president of Touch the World, a global missions organization for youth that he founded in 1990.
Commentary by Tom Campisi
From the inaugural Movement Day in Manhattan to the 50th Annual Spiritual Life and Christian Ministries Convention in North Jersey, the power of prayer was spoken of with paramount importance.
By Tonni von Schaumburg
The United States Census Bureau recently released poverty statistics showing that an unbelievable 43.6 million people in America live below the poverty line, the greatest number since the bureau began publishing reports. More children fell into poverty as well, 20.7 percent—the highest number since 1995. As of August 2010, the national unemployment rate was 9.6% or 14.9 million persons.
By Nancy Dykstra-Powers
Did you know that November is National Adoption Month? It is a time to celebrate the joys of adopting a child and it’s a time to consider the courage a birthmother and birthfather had in making an adoption plan for their child. It is also a time to reflect on the fact that as Christians, we have all been adopted by God!
By Tom Campisi
“Keep choppin.” That was the battle cry instituted by Coach Greg Schiano a few years back as he attempted to change the culture of a losing football program at Rutgers University.
Before his team turned the corner and began to play in bowl games on a regular basis, Schiano likened Rutgers to someone trapped deep in the woods with only an axe in his hand. The only way out was to chop what’s in front of you. (more…)
By Samantha Bruno
In April, Pastor Jack Redmond preached to 16,000 teens, parents, and youth leaders as one of the speakers at Teen Mania’s BattleCry event at Continental Airlines Arena in East Rutherford, New Jersey. And this summer, he continued to be a catalyst as a speaker at the Revelation Generation festival and with the release of his third book, Infusion. Receive. Grow. Give it away.
(EP News) – A new law, signed by New York Gov. David Paterson on Sept. 19, promotes children growing up in motherless or fatherless families – and undermines the strength of marriage and the family.
Student leaders from greater New York are organizing a citywide prayer walk of 1,600 public schools on the weekend of Halloween and inviting the city’s 7,100 churches to participate.
By Dr. Joseph Mattera
The recent tragic suicide of Rutgers freshman Tyler Clementi was one of the most heart-wrenching things I have ever read about. It broke my heart and caused me to weep. Most of us can empathize with his devastated parents (who may not have even known about his sexual proclivities) and even with Tyler (even if we are not involved in homosexual activities) because we have all been humiliated by others in some way or form, although probably not to the extent Tyler was humiliated with the live webstream of his sexual activities in his college dorm.
Legacy Minded Men are on the move in North Jersey. Literally.
On Saturday, September 18, Legacy Minded Men held the Wheels of Fire Motorcycle Run at Cornerstone Chapel in Pompton Plains, NJ. The event was a benefit ride for the Relief Bus, a ministry based in Elizabeth that feeds and reaches out to the homeless and poor in Metro New York.
