Calendar – December 2006
DECEMBER 1-2 Dallas-Fort Worth Church Planting Workshop. Riverside church, Coppell, Texas. Contact www.missionalive.org or (972) 939-4337. 1-2 Brecheen Faulkner Marriage Seminar. “Celebration of Marriage.” University…
Archive: Dec 2006
Bell Trust, which has given millions to missions, charity, marks 50 years
DALLAS, TEXAS — The Bell Trust marks its 50th anniversary this month. Since Dec. 28, 1956, grants totaling nearly $27 million have supported religious, missionary…
INSIDE STORY: Isn’t that what’s it’s all about?
WILKESBORO, N.C. — The Rosses — crazy bunch that we are — packed the minivan and headed out at 5 a.m. on a recent Thursday…
Dialogue: A conversation with Virgil Fry
HOUSTON — Nobody plans to end up at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, battling a terminal disease. Each year, though, thousands of church members diagnosed…
Top online stories of 2006 show range of emotions, events in Churches of Christ
You’ve clicked and scrolled, read and voted. And we’ve kept track. The top Web-read stories of the year at www.christianchronicle.org may surprise you. The events…
Partners: December briefs
Joint service celebrates ‘Families in Touch' COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES Burks’ contract extended through 2013HARDING UNIVERSTIY Harding University’s board of trustees has voted unanimously to extend…
Southern Christian renamed Regions University
MOTGOMERY, ALA. — Regents “determined that this name would enhance the university’s opportunities and would complement the purpose and vision of the university as it…
Letters to the editor: December 2006
Keep up the good work I think you’re doing a nice job of presenting the issues and news within the Churches of Christ. Your work…
Some ministers leaving well-known congregations to start from scratch
Preachers jest that when contacted by a larger congregation offering a better salary, they say to their wives, “You pray while I pack.” In many…
Newsmakers: December 2006
NAMED: Jarrell Gibbs, chairman of the board of trustees for York College, York, Neb. Gibbs is an elder at the Hot Springs Village, Ark., church.…
