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.”
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The Chicago Golden Light Chinese Baptist Church honored the pioneering work of Southern Baptist missionary Lottie Moon with an online conference reaching more than 1,000
When you attend church at Canaan Baptist in Oakville, Missouri, you may think you are in a typical suburban church in what is known as
