Harding students see possibilities for life during New York visit
NEW YORK — It’s certainly not a place where everyone knows your name. But, as a group of Harding University students recently discovered, New York…
Archive: Jun 2008
Grateful members of Cedar Rapids church begin flood cleanup
Forgive Kim Abrams for getting a little emotional. The longtime secretary at the Central church in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, can’t help but choke up when…
Church teen among Boy Scouts killed in Iowa twister
Sam Thomsen, a 13-year-old member of the Southwest church in Omaha, Neb., was killed late Wednesday when a tornado sliced through the primitive Boy Scout…
‘Operation Dad’ swells to include 6,000 men – and women – deployed in Middle East
The Madison, Tenn., church is sending 6,000 gift packages this week — one to every member of the U. S. Army’s 506th Combat Brigade deployed…
A man of vision
BLIND FROM BIRTH, minister Glynn Langston wants to make Bibles — and baptism — available to the vision-impaired around the globe. “Rabbi, I want to…
E-mail: Speak – and forward – the truth in love
I wish someone would make it harder to forward e-mail. Maybe the option could be buried under some submenu on our mail programs. Or how…
Chinese government approves worship services for Olympic visitors
Church members who travel to Beijing for the 2008 Olympics have a place to worship — thanks to an American mission and the Chinese government.…
From the tractor to the world
Church members in agriculture share views on rising food costs The slums of Haiti and the plains of western Kenya seem far removed from the…
A Conversation with Yuki Obata
JAPANESE MINISTER discusses the challenges of reaching his native country, where 1 percent of the population claims Christianity. Yukikazu “Yuki” Obata remembers his first trip…
Football fellowship
THAYINGEN, Switzerland — Christians representing Churches of Christ across Europe gather to strike, steal and sing at soccer tournament. It wasn’t quite the World Cup,…
