Blending generations builds a church for the ages
Bucking societal trends is a challenging proposition. The task can prove even more daunting within the culture of churches, where traditions run deep. Yet that…
Archive: Mar 2013
Veteran minister named president of Canada’s Great Lakes Bible College
WATERLOO, Ontario — Art Ford, a longtime Canadian minister and educator, has been named president of Great Lakes Bible College, a small preacher training school…
Partners, March 2013
EDUCATION TRAININGADRIATIC CHRISTIAN ACADEMYDURRES, Albania — Fifty-eight students, ages 9 to 16, are learning English, math and Bible principles through the Adriatic Christian Academy. The…
‘A song in my heart’
TUBUNGU, Swaziland — When Joan Cheptot came to this tiny country in southern Africa, she already was a preacher’s wife, mother and educator. She had…
‘Fixing our eyes on Jesus’
NIAS, Indonesia — The people of Nias, an island of Indonesia devastated by the 2004 South Asian tsunami, have a clearer vision of their future.Surgeons…
Teddy bears show love to Newtown
JONESBORO, Ark. — Meagan Cremeens, a member of the Southwest Church of Christ, was a Westside Elementary School student when a massacre at nearby Westside…
Newsmakers, March 2013
NAMED: Dennis Itson, Hero of Hope by the American Cancer Society. Itson, an eight-year cancer survivor, works for Faulkner University in Montgomery, Ala. Wayne Scott,…
New and Noteworthy, March 2013
PRISON MINISTRY Kirk Blackard. Love in a Cauldron of Misery: Perspectives on Prison Ministry. Eugene, Ore.: Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2012. 234 pages, $26. Blackard,…
Arkansas minister, wife create ‘Blue, Red and Gold’ Bible
Jane Johnson was reading her Bible one evening when she came to God’s blessing after Jesus’ baptism: “This is my Son, in whom I am…
EDITORIAL: Keeping millennials in the church
We have, it seems, evolved into a nation of “Nones” — folks with no religious ties and little interest in organized faith. One-fifth of Americans…
