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With an extensive COVID safety plan in place, Calumet Christian School will start classes next Tuesday, September 8th. Students will be meeting in-person, with a virtual option available if parents prefer.

Calumet Principal Tyler Wriston says in making plans they wanted to employ a "family choice" model. "Each family can choose whether they want to send their children in-person or do virtual learning from home. We trust parents to make the best choice for their families. Our role at ...

Dwell’s new school, Akili Christian High School, has been open with its first class of students, meeting in-person since mid-July. We checked in with Principal Ari Adkins to get an update on this new venture:

In general how has it been going? It's been going incredibly well! Our staff members feel like they've gotten excellent time to build relationships with the students. This class is spiritually hungry and very interested in learning more about God, with lots and lots of questions....

“We know that in all things God works for the good of those who love Him, who have been called according to His purpose.” Romans 8:28

This spring Dwell’s Pacesetter ministry was about to launch a bi-weekly Bible study for seniors, but at the last minute it was put on hold by COVID restrictions. 5 months later, though the Bible study remains on hold, Pacesetters has a vital ministry through weekly devotional material, and is ready to launch an experimental weekly drive-in Bible study for se...

Part of Dwell’s Oakland Park campus is being renovated to accommodate a major expansion of Central Ohio Youth for Christ’s HireLevel Auto program, helping disadvantaged students learn marketable auto repair skills. HireLevel Auto will continue classes at its current facility on the west side, but this expansion at the Warehouse will allow for many more participants to benefit, from a wider geographic area. The current facility can serve 40 students but the Warehouse expansion can han...

This quarter Dwell is offering the class Spiritual R&R: God’s Restoration and Renewal, designed to help Christians find joy that they once had in their relationship with Christ. It’s a 4 week class with Liz Sweet, and starts Wednesday, August 26th. Liz shares a bit with us about the class:

What is this class about? The class is about experiencing a renewed sense of God's love and joy through rekindling our first love, remembering His faithfulness, and thinking through ou...

Over the past 13 years, the Dwell Grief ministry has grown and expanded, offering various workshops and support groups to help those in grief. To accommodate the current COVID19 restrictions, a new “streamlined” workshop has been developed which is more suited for Zoom. 

Beginning Wednesday, September 9th, the Grief Ministry will offer a 4-week workshop called “Navigating your Grief — Zoom Edition.” It will be on Zoom from 7:00-8:30 pm for four consecutive Wednesdays. This wo...

With COVID-19 forcing Dwell’s Vacation Bible School (VBS) to be canceled, its organizers offered an alternative—materials for people to host a small scale VBS in their backyard. Kim Allen and some other moms in her Cranbrook neighborhood took up the offer, and hosted 14 kids for a week’s worth of Christ-centered activities.

Kim says her family was saddened to hear that VBS was canceled, but her mother-in-law showed her that Dwell was offering a “backyard” version, appropriate for someo...

For the first time in a decade, Calumet Christian School has a new principal. Tyler Wriston will be welcoming students back in a few weeks in that role. Get to know Tyler as he starts his new position:

What do you look forward to about this job? What do you see as the challenges? I'm looking forward to building relationships with staff, students, and families. I think the biggest challenge will be navigating this new role in the midst of a pandemic. COVID-19 presents a lot of new chall...

For nearly 23 years the carpet in the Main Campus Auditorium and lobby has seen it all—multiple weekly Central Teachings, hundreds of kids for VBS, thousands of people attending XSI, and regular use throughout the week for school, Dwell classes, weddings, and outside groups.

The COVID-19 shutdowns have given Dwell a unique opportunity to follow-through on long-standing plans to replace the stained and worn blue-green carpet, as well as making other improvements.“We have discussed annual...

As we look for ways to respond to the issue of racial inequality, Dwell Pastor Josh Benadum offers these suggestions for our conversations and relationships:

1. Encourage people to listen to one another (James 1:19). Not everyone emotionally identifies with the rage and fear that many are expressing right now. But this is an important opportunity for people to learn to empathize with and seek to understand those with different backgrounds experiences (Romans 12:15).

2. Ac...