Calendar: July 2007
2007 JUNE 23-29 Morro Bay Family Encampment. “No Debt, No Sweat,” and “The Culture Wars.” Morro Bay, Calif., church. Contact [email protected] or (805) 772-7248. 24-28…
Archive: Jun 2007
Harding’s ‘Bad News Bears’ enjoy lacrosse success
SEARCY, ARK — “He ended up being the first sponsor of the team,” Bates said. “He’s been a real heavyweight behind the team, getting it…
Ministry seeks to give teens an ‘Ultimate Escape’ from addictive sexual behavior
HENDERSONVILLE, Tenn. — It’s Wednesday night at the Hendersonville church, and guest speaker Steve Holladay has come to talk to the teenagers about ... um,…
A son reflects on his parents’ labor of love
KELLER, Texas — I’m sitting in the chapel at Christ’s Haven for Children, trying hard not to bawl like a baby. On a recent Sunday…
Across the nation: Baptism, novel style
TUSCUMBIA, ALA. — Christian fiction novels always have frustrated 19-year-old Alexis Rhae Hester, she said, because “none of them seem to express the necessity of…
That’s Why We Sing: We can revitalize a cappella worship
Further, a significant number of our own young people — high school, college — are asking for more traditional hymns and a more formalized (read:…
What have we learned?
From this series, we have learned that some are so internally focused that they are content to maintain stagnate congregations. Some, it seems, are only…
Responses respond to a cappella worship editorial
In your lead-in, you use the word “committed.” (“Churches of Christ have a long and deeply rooted commitment to a cappella worship music.”) I may…
Obituaries: June 2007
Jim Lee Beyer Jim Lee Beyer, 67, died April 17 in Georgetown, Texas. He was a minister for churches in Oklahoma, Texas and Louisiana and…
Some churches decide two preachers, or even three, are better than one
Alan Robertson at the White’s Ferry Road church in West Monroe, La., said he likes having co-minister Mike Kellett as a sounding board, accountability partner…
