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Global Friends is a community partner that exists to meet the physical, emotional, social, and spiritual needs of the international student and refugee community in Omaha. Led by Julie Arant, Global Friends hosts regular meetings and events for internationals to promote friendship and community and to introduce them to Christ. Ever since she could remember, … Read More
Citylight Students (CLS) exists to Disciple Students in Knowing Jesus, Growing in Him, and Going out to Share the Good News. Last year, Jacob Gatewood stepped into the role of Midtown Students Director. Jacob wasn’t new to the ministry nor to Citylight Church. Since 2021, he had been volunteering, serving, and interning on multiple serving … Read More
A year and a half ago in 2022, CJ Bolen walked into his first Discipleship Equipping class at the Midtown location. His hope was to grasp one or two things. Theology and apologetics seemed overwhelming and, in the past, way over CJ’s head. Feeling anxious, he walked in the room and sat down, trying to … Read More
Citylight’s mission is to multiply disciples and churches and one way we do this is through City Groups. These groups are spiritual families where members gather in a smaller space outside the big Sunday gathering, to study God’s Word, serve, and share life together. We want everyone to be a part of a City Group … Read More
About a year ago, looking outside his airplane window as they climbed altitude, Dave Laney gazed over the turquoise ocean and the emerald green island of Jamaica, and declared he would never go back. It was too painful. The people and the island were beautiful, but what happened at their first global work assignment and … Read More
When Sam and Camilla Reimer moved to Omaha four years ago for medical and dental school after graduating from college, they knew they needed to find a church that spoke the gospel, preached the gospel, and studied the gospel. In college they both came to an understanding that they needed a personal dependence on the … Read More
Baptism Sundays are one of the best days of the year. Our church and the world get to see tangible evidence of people who were brought out of death and spiritual darkness and into life and the light of Jesus Christ. The pattern of scripture is a pattern of believers who make a conscious choice … Read More
Grief is a close companion to most people. Suffering follows closely behind. Whether it’s with the loss of a friendship, a job, a miscarriage, a divorce or through the death of a family member; no one escapes from the realities of grief. In life, grief is inevitable. Danielle Stahlecker remembers the day that her mom … Read More