David Smith, pastor of First Baptist Church, Grayville, Illinois, recently launched an initiative to clean the headstones of veterans buried in his town.
For six weeks prior to Memorial Day, he worked with church members and community residents to scrub about 1,000 veterans’ headstones, IBSA Newsjournal reported.
“What an honor it has been to clean our veterans’ markers and show them the respect we have for them,” Smith said, “and our appreciation for the freedoms we have.”
Signs in the village still declare “Chatham Strong” one year after the tragic deaths of four children and a teenage camp counselor at an afterschool program.
It’s not every day that a novel with frequent references to kindness, hope and heaven is the top selling book at Amazon and reaches number
“All you could see was smiling faces, people praising God, and good times in a midst of chaos.”
Nearly a week after an EF3 tornado struck Journey Church of Kankakee County, Church Treasurer Rachel Thill said she feels, “God’s inexplicable peace about the situation. We shouldn’t have any peace, but we do.”
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