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Houston-area Churches of Christ unite to feed the hungry
HOUSTON — A sea of blue washed over America’s largest food bank this past weekend. That was the color of matching T-shirts worn by 1,200…
September 2019
View as PDF• Churches unite to feed the hungry • ‘The blessing is ours’ • In new memoir, Randy Travis goes ‘diggin’ up bones’ • Ashes, rubble and beauty • Massacre hits ‘close to home’ • Serving amid the storms • Churches honor memory of sisters killed in Texas car wreck • For a middle-class Chilean church, Venezuelans’ arrival is ‘Providencia’ • Hope for a single-mother family • A niche caring for Liberian children • They lost faith in church, not salvation • Third Culture Kids find a sense of ‘home’ at annual Global Reunion • Flavil Yeakley Jr., expert on church growth, dies at 85 • Crowley’s Ridge names Johnson as next president • A health scare, prayer and a battle of the bulge • Bless this house • Editorial: Brown skin and Christian civility • Evans’ final book raises hard questions • Resolving church conflicts requires quality confessions and real repentance • Warm hearts, warm dogs and a not-so-warm hug in Chile
In this issue:
Obituaries
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…
National
After El Paso massacre, one Mexican-American grandmother turns to God for answers and comfort
For Monica Moreno, the first news of the El Paso, Texas, massacre came via social media. A glance at Snapchat drew her attention to a…
National
Churches honor memory of sisters killed in Texas car wreck
Just hours before she was to begin a missions apprenticeship program, an 18-year-old church member and her 16-year-old sister were killed in a car wreck…
Partners
Third Culture Kids find a sense of ‘home’ at annual Global Reunion
OKLAHOMA CITY — ‘The Lord bless you and keep you …” The words of the farewell song rang out as the 2019 Global Reunion came to a…
Inside Story
In new memoir, Randy Travis goes ‘diggin’ up bones’
And it was down with the old man, up with the new. Raised to walk in the way of light and truth. I didn’t see…
National
Across the Nation: Discipleship emphasis, disc golf evangelism, 50 years preaching 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…
National
In New Mexico town, single parents get free rent, benefits — if they’ll go to church
PORTALES, N.M. — Biatriz Larez knows what it’s like to struggle to feed her family. A few years ago, the single mother and her three…
Editorial
Editorial: Brown skin and Christian civility
‘I have to admit that I’m a little afraid.” That note came from a Christian Chronicle reader, a Hispanic woman, after the mass shooting at a…
Dialogue
They lost faith in church, not salvation
LIMA, Peru — As a country boy from north Mississippi, I love peace and quiet,” says Jonathan Cooper. “Lima is everything but peace and quiet.” …
Milestones
Milestones, September 2019
Birthdays Mary Jo Garner 103 years Mary Jo Garner of El Paso, Texas, turned 103 on August 20, 2019. She was born and reared in…
Milestones
Newsmakers, September 2019
NEW MINISTERS Christine Fox Parker, associate minister, West End Church of Christ in Nashville, Tenn. Terry Norris, pulpit minister, Graham Street Church of Christ in…
International
Around the World, September 2019
Kids in the south Indian city of Chennai had a great “Time” at a Vacation Bible School sponsored by the Kilpauk YMCA Church of Christ.…
National
Serving amid the storms
BALTIMORE — "Our city has problems, big ones,” the editorial board of the Baltimore Sun wrote recently, “and we don’t shy away from them, nor…
Reviews
Rachel Held Evans’ latest book raises hard questions
Rachel Held Evans was brought up in the Bible Belt and received a Christian higher education. She knew the stories from the Old and New…
Reviews
Book focuses on helping leaders become peacemakers
Many church leaders find themselves in the middle of squabbles. Sometimes they must try to promote healing after there has been grave damage done to…
Views
A health scare, prayer and a battle of the bulge
I thought it was heat exhaustion. One day last summer, I had been at a football practice with a group of high school players. It was…
International
‘The blessing is ours’
SANTIAGO, Chile — Venezuela’s economic and political meltdown has a silver lining, seated around the dinner table in Raúl Fernández’s home. The elder of Los Nogales…
International
For a middle-class Chilean church, Venezuelans’ arrival is ‘Providencia’
SANTIAGO, Chile — “Can we talk over here?” asks Alejandra Huezo, moving from a grove of shade trees to a park bench bathed in sunlight.…