‘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…
Archive: Mar 2013
Around the World, March 2013
HONDURAS TEGUCIGALPA —Teams from the Mateo Church of Christ celebrate their victories during a recent “futbol,” or soccer, tournament in the Central American nation of…
As churches soar in Indonesia, U.S. Christians ponder future
GUNUNG SITOLI, Indonesia — Dennis Cady knows of mission works that, five or 10 years after the missionary leaves the field, have few remaining converts…
Grace Farrar, pioneering medical missionary to Nigeria, dies at 88
LEBANON, Tenn. — Grace Farrar, a medical missionary to the West African nation of Nigeria, died Jan. 11 in an auto accident in Tennessee. She…
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,…
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…
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…
