Obituaries Gary Pettit, a bivocational pastor who served Mississippi Baptist churches and the oil industry, died Aug. 14. He was 75. Bobby Nowell Parish, who
Life in rural America has its charms and challenges. Those who pastor in small towns across the United States recognize the trials inherent to those areas but believe God is working in their congregations and communities.
Five wives trudged the final steps into Hot Springs, physically exhausted but spiritually renewed after three days and 16 miles on the Appalachian Trail.
“All the pain, all of the differences, all the different cultures, different approaches, and the language, all of that is there, but the love of Jesus kind of unites us in such a special way,” Pastor Victor Akhterov said.
The East Baton Rouge Parish Library internal policy describes those “welcomed, accepted and respected” as covering “religious preference” as well as “gender identity or expression.” The policy also states employees have the right to be addressed by their preferred pronouns, but it does not address what to do if that right conflicts with another employee’s religious beliefs. Public libraries are subject to federal, state and local laws — and in many cases navigating how that plays out can be somewhat muddy when the wording of various laws conflict.
For more than four decades, almost every patient at Midland Memorial Hospital could count on a visit from “Brother Bob” Porterfield, pastor of West Kentucky Avenue Baptist Church in Midland.
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