Anansi Flaherty, a backup fullback on Katy High School’s 2000 State Championship team, gave his life to Christ in prison. On Dec. 19, 2024, he was baptized — “raised to walk in new life” — outside those walls.
Texans on Mission organizes disaster relief training trips to Israel throughout the year, and it deployed teams a year ago after Hamas attacked Israel. It held its last 2024 training session in November.
Maxine Bennett Goebel, 80, calls the two women who she says saved her life on a frigid December evening “angels.” Now recovering from a broken leg and surgery, Goebel hopes to find the Good Samaritans to express her gratitude.
Mississippi News January 2, 2025 Obituaries Ronnie “Jiggs” Maxie, who served churches in Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee, died Nov. 27 in Hattiesburg. He was 79.
New Orleans Baptist Association Executive Director Jack Hunter said chaplains with Baptist Community Ministries have been with first responders and are in area hospitals as “the tears and presence of Christ in this dark agony.”
For 10 years now Bethel Baptist Church that routinely runs 50–70 in attendance has welcome the men on work-release and within at least a year of fulfilling their sentence.
Over the past 22 years, Corryton Church has given away nearly $1 million dollars of gifts and goods to families in East Tennessee, Virginia and Kentucky.
On Dec. 28, a line of severe storms tore through the Southeast, producing multiple long-track tornadoes in parts of Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi. More than
More than 350 Baptist Student Union students from 18 Mississippi colleges joined “Christmas in the Delta,” a ministry mobilizing students for gospel-centered service across nine Delta counties.
A Dec. 28 tornado destroyed the building of O’Zion Baptist Church near Meadville, Mississippi, 90 years after another tornado hit its facilities. Church members Rick and Dianne Strawbridge were inside but escaped without injuries.
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