Category: General

Support SOS While You Shop!

Posted on 02/04/13 in General, No Comments

Do you love SOS and want to support our work?   Do you regularly shop at Kroger? If you answered YES to both of these, then we have some exciting news for you! SOS is now enrolled as a participating organization in the Kroger Community Rewards Program.  You simply register your Kroger card through their [...]

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Striving for Shalom

Posted on 01/22/13 in General, Serve, No Comments

In Tim Keller’s book Generous Justice, he defines “shalom“ in the following way: God created all things to be in a beautiful, harmonious, interdependent, knitted, webbed relationship to one another.  Just as rightly related physical elements form a cosmos or a tapestry, so rightly related human beings form a community.  This interwoveness is what the Bible [...]

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Top Stories in 2012

Posted on 01/07/13 in Christmas, Full-Time Staff, General, No Comments

Based on traffic to the SOS website, here are the three stories that YOU were most interested in in 2012:   God did amazing things during our 2012 summer camps.  Here are two blog posts that you visited a lot last year celebrating a great season of summer camps: Post-Summer Update & Summer Camp Update. [...]

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SOS Community Christmas Party

Posted on 10/25/12 in General, 5 Comments

Please join us for the… First Annual SOS COMMUNITY CHRISTMAS PARTY! This is a time you definitely do not want to miss!  We’ll spend time together, listen to great music from the Binghampton Community Choir, and eat some good food.   Here are some details: When is it? Tuesday, December 18 from 6:00 pm til 8:00 [...]

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Fishbus

Posted on 11/29/11 in General, No Comments

Recently Tony, Paige, and their family visited Memphis in the Fishbus. Their family is spending several months traveling around the U.S. to serve cities, organizations, and people. SOS was blessed by their service and company while they were here in Memphis. Read about their adventures with Big Dog and John at SOS here. If you [...]

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Don’t Waste Your Christmas

Posted on 11/24/11 in General, No Comments

We love this video and the idea from Advent Conspiracy.  If you’re looking for a creative way to invest eternally this Christmas, consider giving gifts from our SOS Christmas Catalog.  Whether you give to SOS or any other wonderful cause, this is a great time of year to show that you value Jesus more than [...]

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SOS Culture III – Glorify God by Serving the Materially Poor

Posted on 11/04/11 in Culture, General, No Comments

This post is part of a series about 5 distinctives that are key to SOS’s culture.  Check out the rest of the series here.  These 5 culture distinctives are from David Montague’s talk to SOS summer staff alumni at the SOS 25th Anniversary. The third culture distinctive is that SOS believes that God loves and cares for [...]

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Racism and the Gospel

Posted on 10/28/11 in General, Justice, 1 Comment

This is a great short documentary about a great book concerning racism and the gospel.  Worth a watch. And the book is worth a read.

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SOS Culture II – Our Purpose: God’s Glory

Posted on 10/25/11 in Culture, General, 2 Comments

This post is part of a series about 5 distinctives that are key to SOS’s culture.  Check out the rest of the series here.  These 5 culture distinctives are from David Montague’s talk to SOS summer staff alumni at the SOS 25th Anniversary. The second culture distinctive is that SOS believes and proclaims that our ultimate purpose is [...]

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SOS Culture I – Christ as Lord

Posted on 10/18/11 in Culture, General, 1 Comment

This post is part of a series about 5 distinctives that are key to SOS’s culture.  Check out the rest of the series here.  These 5 culture distinctives are from David Montague’s talk to SOS summer staff alumni at the SOS 25th Anniversary. Everyone in the SOS family recently celebrated SOS’s 25th Anniversary.  During Friday night’s alumni reunion, David [...]

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