August 17, 2023

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Sharing love — and Christ — with refugees

Since the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan two years ago, an Oklahoma church has worked to help its new neighbors.

One of the volunteers — who fled to America just a week before the fall of Saigon in 1975 — can’t help but see herself in the refugees’ experiences.

Bobby Ross Jr. reports from Oklahoma City with photos by Audrey Jackson.

How a grassroots ministry to Afghan refugees ‘snowballed’ into something big

A Texas church’s outreach started with one Christian couple compelled to “do something.”

Church leaders had no idea how huge the undertaking would become.

Bobby Ross Jr. reports from San Antonio.

Inside Story

They were the foreigners

Their service as missionaries in Brazil in the 1990s shapes how three ministers — now back in the U.S. — approach outreach to refugees and immigrants.

“We have some empathy for them because we’ve been in their shoes,” said one.

Read Bobby Ross Jr.’s Inside Story column.

Maui church houses evacuees, helps with relief after deadly wildfires

The official death toll has topped 100, and many more victims could be found.

Find out how to help.

National

Fred Gray receives top award from American Bar Association

The renowned civil rights attorney, longtime minister and elder of the Tuskegee Church of Christ in Alabama received the American Bar Association’s highest honor.

Calvin Cockrell reports.

Partners

South Carolina church develops local preachers

Preacher Steven Guy teaches both formal and informal courses available in person or online.

Cynthia Guy shares details.

Partners

Team devotional leads 37 Faulkner University athletes to baptism

Less than a week after arriving on campus for the fall semester, the Eagles football team members were baptized following a team devotional.

Calvin Cockrell reports.

International

Fifty years of fellowship — and a nude beach

Barbed wire and war (plus a worship service full of distractions) are among the tales shared by veterans of the Caribbean Lectureship.

Erik Tryggestad reports from St. George’s, Grenada.

National

Kerusso Experience trains high schoolers to fill empty pulpits

A Harding University camp teaches boys how to plan, write and deliver sermons.

Audrey Jackson reports from Searcy, Ark.

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