You might say mission trips are suffering from “long Covid,” that extended version of the illness that takes months or longer for some of its victims to overcome. Most aspects of church life are getting back to “normal” two years after the pandemic shut down worship services and youth ministries and small groups, but missions […]
Illinois pro-life leaders respond to leaked documents
Leaders in the Illinois pro-life movement responded favorably to reports that the U.S. Supreme Court will overturn the landmark 1973 abortion case Roe v. Wade, even as abortion rights advocates including Gov. J. B. Pritzker condemned the pending action. “Good news for mothers and babies in dozens of states,” David Smith of Illinois Family Institute […]
Finding joy after the loss of a loved one
Carmen Halsey went to her first GriefShare meeting as a spectator. Almost two years after her husband, Keith, died of a heart attack on a Sunday morning in April, after her mother’s death less than a year later, and in the middle of a pandemic, she was looking for answers. Not so much for herself […]
Missionaries report tragic acts of war, then and now
Sunday, December 7, 1941: Charles Maddry was preparing for three worship services that morning with the fifteen missionaries serving through the Hawaiian Baptist Mission. Dr. Maddry was head of Southern Baptists’ Foreign Mission Board. He was in Honolulu for a three-day conference to plan missions on the islands. “My room in the hotel looked out […]
S. Illinois church creates culture of evangelism
“I expected in 2021 there would be a massive flood back into the church because they had spent much of 2020 watching online,” said Ronnie Tabor, pastor of Crossroads Church in Centralia. “That was the vision we started out with, but it didn’t quite turn out that way.” What did happen was much better, but […]
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