Newsmakers, August 2018
AWARDED “Team Charcoal,” students of Heritage Christian College in Accra, Ghana, won the Audience Choice Award and the grand prize of $15,000 at the Global…
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Faulkner athletes offer surprise welcome at local elementary school
The excitement was high Monday morning at Davis Elementary School in Montgomery, Ala., as athletes from Faulkner University lined up to welcome students back for…
Across the Nation: A church secretary’s surprise, a viral flash mob praising God and more quick takes
Across the Nation is our monthly rundown of news briefs, links and quotes from Churches of Christ across the U.S. Got an idea for this…
Campbellites, meet the Campbells: Utah conference mixes sights, food, dialogue
PROVO, Utah — This is definitely not Church of Christ country. Utah boasts fewer than 1,100 adherents of Churches of Christ — to go along with,…
Responding to that other crisis on the border
McALLEN, Texas — For weeks, the world’s attention focused on this south Texas city and others along the U.S./Mexico border. News of mothers separated from…
A new day for Puerto Rico
ARECIBO, Puerto Rico — Punishing, back-to-back hurricanes that wrecked this U.S. territory nearly a year ago swept away homes, decimated crops, knocked out electrical systems…
‘We do not go to church anymore’
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — ‘I don’t know how they can ever fire me now,” Joey Spann said of his church. “I mean, how could they tell me I…
‘God knows I needed you’
Pam Smith wants her husband and her son, both lost in the Missouri duck boat tragedy, to be remembered "for their Christian walk." The grieving…
Church of Christ in Indiana mourns member who died in duck boat tragedy
For members of the Kingsley Terrace Church of Christ, Irvin Raymond Coleman often was the first face they saw as they arrived for worship. "Every…
Church deacon and his son among victims of duck boat tragedy (Updated)
UPDATE: Another member of a Church of Christ perished in the duck boat tragedy. Ray Coleman, 76, an usher for the Kingsley Terrace Church of…
