Ukrainian-American family members detailed their difficult journey from the Eastern European nation of Ukraine to the U.S. during a recent missions class at the Memorial Road Church of Christ in Oklahoma City.
Read MoreTen people died — including a relative of one church member, Patrick Patterson — in a supermarket massacre in Buffalo, New York. Patterson is a manager at the store and helped people escape during the shooting, which authorities have said was a hate crime targeting the Black community.
Read MoreAt the National Urban Ministry Conference’s first in-person meeting since 2020, COVID-19, new ministry initiatives and resources — including the use of government grants — dominated the discussion. Accepting government funding can be a boon to faith-based organizations but places stipulations on religious activities and evangelism.
Read MoreChurches throughout Romania are helping Ukrainian refugees by coordinating shipments of supplies, helping with resettlement, collecting funds to help in relief efforts, making quilts, offering shelter and food, and praying.
Read MoreLori Windham teaches children’s Bible classes the Fairfax Church of Christ in Virginia and argues cases in the nation’s highest courts for Becket, a law firm specializing in religious liberty cases for people of all faiths.
Read MoreA Virginia church collaborated with a grassroots volunteer organization known as NoVa RAFT, which stands for Northern Virginia Resettling Afghan Families Together. That group has helped set up nearly 200 Afghan refugee homes with furniture, beds, kitchenware, linens and other household items.
Read MoreAs Russian forces withdraw from the capital and western Ukraine, Christians in Ukraine report that they’re concerned attacks will intensify in the cities of the east, including Dnipro and Mariupol. In Mariupol, a port city that has been all but obliterated by Russian artillery, 33 Christians were taking refuge in the meeting place of a Church of Christ.
Read MoreChurches across the U.S. are gathering buckets of supplies to help refugees in war-torn Eastern Europe, including one ministry that got a $10,000 donation from TV host Kelly Clarkson and another that’s getting help wrapping presents from St. Nicholas.
Read MoreThe 18th president and first female CEO of Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tennessee, aspires to be “a role model for all students.”
Read MoreIn Manchester, Tennessee, the final assembly of the Ragsdale Church of Christ was an old-time singing — the kind they used to have every fourth Sunday. After nearly 70 years, the church could no longer sustain itself.
Read MoreFaulkner University in Montgomery, Alabama, has been awarded two grants meant to bolster opportunities for low-income and African American students, the university has announced. The grants will provide Black students better access to mentors, academic coaches and student tutors, among other offerings.
Read MoreMichael O’Keefe and his attorney claim he was fired for including an openly gay guest speaker in his senior-level “Business of Branding” course. But the university asserts that O’Keefe’s termination stemmed from the content of the speaker’s presentation — and the professor’s alleged subsequent effort to squelch student complaints.
Read MoreAlabama minister Mark Posey was preaching the gospel in Ukraine when Russia began its latest incursion into the former Soviet nation. “If we wait for ideal circumstances, then we’ll never go anywhere or do anything,” he said in an interview, now back home in North Alabama.
Read MoreFighting has intensified in eastern Ukrainian cities near the separatist-held regions. Meanwhile, Christians take supplies to congregations in these hard-hit cities. They plan to help churches set up bomb shelters and deliver aid. They also plan to bring refugees back with them.
Read MoreIn Franklin County, Florida — where 19% of the 12,451 residents lived below the poverty line in 2020 — children ages 3 to 11 flock to the the Eastpoint Church of Christ van driven by Jenny Johnson each Sunday while her husband, Mike, the church’s minister, cooks breakfast at the building. For some kids, it’s their first meal since school on Friday.
Read MoreWhen a medical ministry built an impressive clinic in rural Honduras, some feared the government would take it over. Nearly two decades later, the ministry has experienced a takeover of a different kind. Through a process called “decentralization,” the Honduran health services turned administration of the rural clinics over to Predisan.
Read MoreAs an American missionary and Ukrainian Christians say tearful goodbyes and cross borders, some stay behind and appeal to Russian troops, ‘Lay down your weapons, stop shooting.’
Read MoreChristians across Ukraine woke to the sounds of explosions as their Russian neighbors began a bombardment of the Eastern European nation. Some had made plans to house refugees making their way west, but the Feb. 24 attacks were reported in cities east and west, further complicating their situation.
Read MoreRabbi Charlie, as friends and congregants call him — one of the four recently held at gunpoint for nearly 11 hours at the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue —teaches with emotion when he tells students in Mark Baur’s Worldviews course at Fort Worth Christian School each spring that antisemitism has destroyed generations.
Read MoreAt least 50 people are feared dead, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said, after a devastating night of storms that stretched from Arkansas to Illinois.
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