Fire destroys Oklahoma church building
Smoke and flames pour out of an entrance to the Thomas Street church's building in Altus, Okla., Dec. 7. The early-morning blaze claimed the auditorium…
Archive: Dec 2005
New Hampshire quilters work to provide handmade Christmas gifts for children’s home
Sue Dwyer, Renee Reeves and Trish Pike (clockwise from left) stitch a quilt at the Nashua, N.H., church. Church member Heidi Critz organized a project…
Congregation focuses on small groups as way to build relationships
FAIRFAX, VA. — Folks start trickling into the small-group meeting at Bill and Nancy McKelvey's town home about 4:45 p.m. each Sunday. Before Bill McKelvey…
Members, youth minister reflect on church’s successes, challenges
FAIRFAX, VA. — To help understand what makes the Fairfax church work, The Christian Chronicle interviewed more than three dozen ministers, elders and members. Among…
How does Fairfax ‘Show Jesus’?
Fairfax's Deaf Congregation averages about 40 people each Sunday morning. Mark Lowenstein is the full-time deaf minister. Church elder David Hinckley, who is active in…
Thriving congregation finds ways to expand outside Bible Belt, inside Beltway
FAIRFAX, Va. — Now you see them. Now you don’t. Every minute or two, the Metro trains that zip commuters to the nation’s capital…
Wilma and Beta bring more woes to waterlogged church members in Central America
Churches in Nicaragua plan aid for regions affected by Hurricane Beta and a 'rat invasion'; Church members still without power in Mexico after Hurricane Wilma.…
Sharing space and saltines, Cozumel church helps Wilma’s victims
As Hurricane Wilma pounded Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, more than 130 people huddled inside the Cozumel church building, with little food and supplies. “It seemed she…
Quiet, tireless worker demonstrates faith on foot in Papua New Guinea
Siggy Lonua, right, and one of her students, Nesain Tangot, distribute World Bible School lessons by traveling door-to-door in Papua New Guinea. By Erik Tryggestad…
Minister recounts survival in Liberia’s ‘valley of death’
MONROVIA, Liberia — Like many Liberians, David Kolleh remembers a time when he looked at the dead bodies of his people with a sense of…
