Church growth expert Flavil Yeakley Jr. has died at age 85, his family reports
Flavil Yeakley Jr., retired director of the Harding Center for Church Growth in Searcy, Ark., has died, his family reports. He was 85. Yeakley was…
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There’s a divide in the church: This minister wants to bridge it
ST. LOUIS — Carlus D. Page sees a divide in the church — a generational one — and wants to bridge it. Page, 35, serves…
At 87, ‘disaster deacon’ opens his heart — and church — to flooding victims
TULSA, Okla. — Oh, Kenneth Hearrell has stories to tell. About how he rode a horse five miles to his two-room schoolhouse from first through…
To Botham Jean’s parents, fatal shooting still feels ‘as if it just happened’
DALLAS — The nightmare never goes away. Almost nine months have passed since Amber Guyger, an off-duty Dallas police officer still in uniform, entered Botham…
Church member, strawberry farmer Kason Lester gets golden ticket on ‘American Idol’
Should a Christ-follower resort to bribery to get the judges' attention on "American Idol?" Evidently that's not against the rules on the popular reality show/singing…
‘Tell somebody. Don’t keep quiet.’
SOMERSET, Pa. — For so long, no one knew Alex Howlett's name. In 2011, she confided in her brother Jimmy Hinton that the man he…
Church member turns four chairs on NBC’s The Voice
The judges on last night’s episode of “The Voice” were all smiles thanks to Matthew Johnson, a member of (and occasional song leader for) a…
Alzheimer’s can’t steal this couple’s rock-solid faith
LEBANON, Tenn. — Jean Reynolds and her husband, Bob, have shared a lifetime of ups and downs — but mostly ups, she says — since the…
Big mission in the Big Easy
NEW ORLEANS — "The storm of the century," it was called. Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans and the Gulf Coast region with a vengeance in…
Saying merci for the life of Doyle Kee
Searcy, Ark. — It is impossible to know the number of souls in heaven because of Doyle Kee. It is astounding to consider the amount of…
