“God was there. I’d never seen that many people in a gathering in Emanuel county before. It was awesome,” said Billy Brinson, missions strategist in the Emanuel Missionary Baptist Association.
Churches are seen as playing an important role in helping people deal with the epidemic of loneliness that is sweeping through modern America — but not as key players on other pressing issues, a new study shows.
“We just keep it simple,” said the pastor. “It’s church the way it’s always been. We meet to worship and to study God’s word and to pray. We’re not really big on the carnival Jesus movement.
“Part of the reason may be that the U.S. is culturally Christian,” Barna wrote, citing past surveys. “In fact, 72 percent of people in the U.S. say they were raised Christian.”
Nearly six million people have tuned in to watch Georgia pastor David Wheeler and his family restore rusted clunkers on their YouTube program Revstoration.
More than 350 Georgia students made commitments to Christ at the Wild Adventures amusement park in Valdosta on Thursday and Friday, providing a spiritual grand finale to a year that will be remembered for large numbers of decisions…
“We will immediately begin looking for a new administration building that will be able to handle the daily work of the Georgia Baptist Mission Board staff.” — Thomas Hammond, GBMB executive director
“How can we say we love Jesus if we are not willing to go and tell others about Him? I’m just doing what Christians are supposed to do,” said Tom Kollars.
Robbie Lane, the starting shortstop on the East Georgia State College baseball team, has hit a grand slam of a different sort in an at bat as an aspiring minister.
Christians in the small southern Georgia town of Dawson are putting the spotlight back on Jesus this Christmas season, shifting the focus away from Santa who, for generations of Americans, has been the face of the holidays.
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