With Christmas just around the corner, many local residents are dealing with the aftermath of a series of tornadoes that swept through West and Middle Tennessee on Dec. 9.
Some therapists and counselors say that the holidays become difficult for certain persons and stressful for others “just because” it’s time for the holidays.
What began as a joke made in front of a rural Texas congregation ended with a gift of more than $26,000 contributed to enable Texas Baptist Men and their ministry partners to drill new water wells in Peru.
As new International Mission Board missionaries gathered for a special commissioning service near Richmond, Virginia, on Dec. 7, six representatives of the Myanmar Baptist Churches USA fellowship traveled from Maryland.
A New Hampshire church is working through the tragic loss of one of its ministry leaders after he reportedly took his own life on Nov. 27, following sexual abuse allegations being investigated against him.
John Arthur, pastor at Eureka First Baptist Church near Aiken, South Carolina, will pass the six-decade mark Jan. 1 — and he still preaches every Sunday.