Hey parents, get involved!
At Children’s Center for the Common Good, we are parents, too.
We know that your family has a faith centered lifestyle. We know you can use some help with the children when they go online because it is a challenge to find faith based websites that are:
- commercial free
- age appropriate
- able to support faith formation
We pray this internet radio site is step in the right direction. Our hope is that you listen to CGR:
- in the background of what ever you and the children are doing online
- just to have on when you are cleaning a room in your home
- preparing a meal in your kitchen
- whenever you want music and scripture that is friendly to children and inviting them to affirm their faith in a fun, relaxed way through music
- in the car with the free download to your mobile phones/players
We have partnered with a company called live365, who has the software and other tools to provide the programming streams here.
How You Can Help
As your child’s first teacher, pastor, doctor, chef, sports coach, art critic, vocal harmonizer, travel agent and tree of life, we know what your job is like. We are parents too. We want what you want: loving, faithful, compassionate children who are kind and uses their gifts and graces to make things better for the people and all that lives.
Link to Us
By placing our link on your faith community website homepage, you will be sharing the good news of love and hope through music and advertising free programming that is age appropriate for children of all ages. Help us share this good news of love as supports your faithful lifestyle. Drop us a note to let us know you are linking.
Share your Stories
Common Good Radio Club! If your family, Sunday school class or Youth Group has a story of love, kindness or hope that you would like to share with the world, send us digital audio (MP3) pieces of one minute in length and we will play it on the air in between songs. Please be sure to use only your first name and the general geography of your faith community, school or home (this is Michael, 4th grade, Miss Jones Sunday school class in Dallas, Texas). Share hope with your sisters and brothers in faith and let your children know what they are doing is important. Email Pastor Robin with questions.
We commit to comply with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) which means we will never attempt to solicit information from your child other than what we have stated: first name, general geography and grade or age. If you want to share a family story, just say what you are comfortable with.
Any other information you share with us, like your email address, will be treated with respect, not for sales or other non-CGR purpose.
Donate to Us
We are a missional purpose ministry whose bills are paid through your generous and loving donations. We also have received grants and will continue to apply for grants. If you are a grant writer or you would like to donate other resources of you time and talent, contact Pastor Robin.
If you would like to use a credit card to donate money, we would be blessed: use the “donate here” section of our home page (your receipt will say North Central New York Annual Conference of the UMC as they are our primary fiscal agent). All the money collected goes directly to the ministry after the small percentage Paypal takes for their services.
Pray for Us
This ministry is an act of faith and response to a Holy Spirit call. Thank you for your prayers.
For your faithful suggestions to make things better, we invite you to contact us.
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August 19th, 2010
Rev. Dr. Roland Martinson | no.2
Roland D. Martinson
Academic Dean
Carrie Olson Baalson Professor of Children Youth and Family Ministry
Roland Martinson came to Luther Seminary as assistant professor in 1977 and was named professor of pastoral theology and ministry, pastoral care, in 1982. He chaired the committee which created the new curriculum introduced at Luther Seminary in 1993. In May, 2000, Martinson was installed as Carrie Olson Baalson Professor of Children, Youth and Family Ministry.
Ordained in 1968, he was pastor of Salem Lutheran Church in Glendale, Calif., until 1974, when he became pastor of Hope Lutheran Church in Fargo, N.D.
A summa cum laude graduate of Concordia College, Moorhead, Minn., Martinson earned the B.D. degree from Luther Seminary in 1968. He received the S.T.D. degree from San Francisco Theological Seminary in 1978. He was scholar-in-residence at the Institute for Religion and Wholeness at Claremont, Calif. (1985-86), and attended the California Family Study Center in Burbank and The National Training Lab at Monterey while in the parish.
Martinson is a member of the National Council on Family Relations.
His works include: Gearing Up for Youth Ministry in the 21st Century (1992); Effective Youth Ministry, A Congregational Approach (1988); Bringing Up Your Child and Ministries with Families (1986); and A Joyful Call to Ministry (1982).
