On the fourth Saturday in October, you’ll see volunteers cleaning up a park in Memphis, then setting up a harvest festival there. You’ll see new Christians being baptized in the county jail. You’ll see church members painting the building of another church in their neighborhood, visiting residents in nearby nursing homes, leading a reading camp […]
First Baptist Church of Nashville’s history is long, and its roots in the city, deep. The church struggled through a number of theological –isms in the mid-1800s, according to its website: Campbellism, which opposed many Baptist practices and viewed baptism as essential to salvation; antimissionism, which opposed organized missions, Sunday school, education ministry and conventions; […]
Back in 1999, when Deanna Blincow and her husband adopted two of their four children from Russia, she didn’t know any other families who had adopted. Fast forward to 2006, when she and three other women from North Way Christian Community began carpooling together to inner-city Pittsburgh to mentor at-risk students, Blincow said. It turned […]
St. Louis is nicknamed “The Gateway to the West,” positioned as it is along the Mississippi River, peering up at the stainless steel arch of architect Eero Saarinen’s memorial. Judy Lamborn likes to think of it as a gateway to hope, a gateway to hitting the “reset” button on life. “We are the gateway to […]
Castle Rock Community Church is located in the Central City neighborhood of New Orleans. Specifically, Pastor John Gerhardt said, the church is located at the intersection of “loving God and loving people.” “If I live at that intersection – loving God with all I got and loving people ‘til I drop – then I need […]
