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Area Businesses Rally to Help Church Rebuild After Shooting

June 25, 2019

Faith At Work Unthinkable tragedy struck the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs in Texas when a gunman opened fire during Sunday service, killing 26 worshippers on November 5, 2017. People across the country and the world mourned for the loss of so many lives and for the families and friends of the 26 victims. …

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Are Your Needs Being Met?

June 25, 2019

Encouraging Word A need is defined as a requirement or urgent necessity. We all have needs. If you have an unmet need, then you have a deficit because there is something missing or lacking. You now are motivated to meet that need and it becomes a priority. One cannot be fully satisfied until that need …

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Kathie Lee Gifford: Grounded in God’s Word of Hope

June 25, 2019

“Trust Him. Let Him love you like He wants to love you.”  Those were the parting words of hope that Kathie Lee Gifford left millions of viewers with earlier this year on her last day as a part of the Today Show. Her final words were backed up with God’s Word as she quoted on …

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10 Years & Counting: Points to Consider as You Approach Retirement

June 25, 2019

Money Matters If you’re a decade or so away from retirement, you’ve probably spent at least some time thinking about this major life change. How will you manage the transition? Will you travel, take up a new sport or hobby, or spend more time with friends and family? Should you consider relocating? Will you continue …

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Science, Service & Creativity at OLS

June 25, 2019

Education Extra Exciting things have been happening at Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic School (OLS)!  OLS held their Science Fair in the last weeks of school. 4th grade students took pride in displaying their projects and sharing their experiment findings. As part of their science curriculum this year, the students had to find a question …

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Why Don’t They Like ME?  How to deal with negative comments on your church’s posts.

June 25, 2019

Church Leaders  Your church is hitting social media with everything you have. You are sharing posts. You aren’t relying on Sunday services to give you all of your content. You are interacting with people that comment. You are really doing social media the correct way, but then the worst happens. You get a dreaded negative …

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Homework Helpers Ministry Provides Summer Reading Opportunity for Area Children

June 25, 2019

Church Leaders Prince of Peace (POP) Catholic Church’s homework helpers ministry recently gave away over 750 new and like new books to 25 parish children in their tutoring ministry. These students attended the ministry’s free Wednesday evening or Sunday afternoon one-hour sessions that were held at Prince of Peace from January through May. The books …

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Called to Forgive

June 24, 2019

Best Books On the evening of June 17, 2015, Myra Thompson led a Wednesday night Bible study in the basement of her historic Charleston church. As a newly licensed minister, this was the first time she would lead the class. While reading a passage from Mark’s Gospel about the parable of the sower, a young …

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Pick Up the Word!

June 23, 2019

Publisher’s Note Looking for a Great Read this Summer? Pick Up the Word! Interviewing Kathie Lee Gifford for our cover story this month, I could not help but get caught up in her excitement of being a student of God’s Word. “The Bible is our treasure map,” she said and I knew exactly what she …

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Ducky Dynasty’s Phil Robertson on Faith, Family & Fatherhood

May 28, 2019

Since the final season of  Duck Dynasty aired three years ago, family patriarch Phil Robertson has been shocked by the number of people still hoping for a taste of West Monroe, Louisiana preaching and an Ouiachita River baptism. When fans find him (and find him, they do), he invites them for a meal and then uses …

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