I’ve pretty much always been a girlie-girl. When I was little, while the other kids were singing, “Head and shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes,” I was singing something more like, “Head, new hairdo, purse and shoes, purse and shoes.”
SOUTH ASIA – The imam placed his copy of the Quran carefully on the table and called the men at the memorial service to attention. He opened the book, lifted his hands toward heaven, and began to chant in honor of the man who had died.
ANAHEIM, Calif. (BP) – After promotional materials for the SoCal Harvest crusade were taken down from two Southern California malls because they showed pastor Greg Laurie holding a Bible, Laurie is asking attendees of the event to hold up their Bibles in a show of support for God's Word.
INDIA (BP) – Local partners with Baptist Global Response are responding to stranded flood victims in southern India's Kerala state, an area facing its "worst flooding in recent memory."
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (BP) – A group from The Satanic Temple temporarily erected a goat-headed, winged statue on the Arkansas State Capitol grounds on Thursday (Aug. 16) to protest the Ten Commandments monument already placed there.
“The goal is to equip and train folks who could be put in other prisons to lead other ministries,” Anthony Allen said. “From the prison’s standpoint, what they’ve found is that if they have an active Christian ministry inside led by prisoners, it changes peoples’ lives and the entire culture.”
SPRINGFIELD – Freeway Ministries, an effort to bridge the divide between the church and those struggling to emerge from addiction and life behind bars, has grown from one man’s conviction by the Holy Spirit into an international gospel force. And what began out of Crossway Baptist Church here now has its own headquarters in north Springfield.
