A 20-foot-tall white cross still stands in front of the Center Point, Texas, fire station, the words “Letters to Heaven” written just above a mail slot at its base to accept notes addressed to campers and counselors killed in the flood at Camp Mystic last July.
Even as roughly 380 million believers face persecution every year, Christianity continues to grow — even in the most hostile nations where faithfulness commonly means imprisonment, torture or death, according to a new report.
Mindy Cobb moved to Chicago with her husband, Lindsay, nearly 50 years ago to be a part of a church plant and hasn’t looked back. In Longevity, a collection of essays by Nathan Carter, Cobb shared she originally planned to give God one summer of her life, but he wanted the whole thing.
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