‘We certain may use a little bit just right information as of late,” Anne Murray sang in a No. 1 nation hit in 1983.
Just about 4 many years later, unfavourable headlines abound: Mass shootings. The struggle in Ukraine. Church closings.
Even if the inside track is dangerous, The Christian Chronicle strives to focus on Christians residing out their religion in inspiring techniques, as you’ll understand turning the pages of this month’s version.
Nonetheless, to cite Murray, “Yet another unhappy tale’s yet one more than I will be able to stand.” So I requested fellow Christians to proportion a little bit just right information:
• The Wetzel Street Church of Christ in Liverpool, N.Y., is celebrating two baptisms, minister and elder David Owens mentioned, and alluring a venture crew from the Stillwater Church of Christ in Oklahoma.
• The West-Ark Church of Christ in Castle Smith, Ark., is organizing its first  Holiday Bible College for other people with particular wishes, member Jordon Brown mentioned. 
In 2017, I coated that church’s “Night time to Shine” promenade for God’s youngsters with autism, Down syndrome and different particular wishes.
In 2017, “King” Austin Peters basks within the highlight of “Night time to Shine” as he and his volunteer friend get ready to board a limousine.
• The Oxford and Rivers Hill congregations — each in Oxford, Leave out. — are participating with a company known as RIP Scientific Debt. The purpose: “to boost $5,000 to alleviate part 1,000,000 in clinical debt” for other people in 3 space counties.
“If we will be able to carry $10,000, we will be able to alleviate 1,000,000 in debt.”
“If we will be able to carry $10,000, we will be able to alleviate 1,000,000 in debt,” mentioned Les Ferguson Jr., the Oxford church’s preaching minister.
• The Creekside Church of Christ in Greenville, Texas, is website hosting its annual First Responders Appreciation Lunch.
“This match is particular as it invitations the neighborhood into our development,” mentioned Michelle Gilbert, one of the crucial coordinators. “It’s really an intergenerational program.”
• The Matsudo Church of Christ in Japan is including an English-speaking provider, mentioned Leslie Taylor, a missionary along with his spouse, Sara.
“We’re in a position to do it as a result of a Eastern-American who was once baptized in January has joined and since his female friend from Lithuania, who’s a Christian, is shifting right here,” Taylor mentioned. “For a little bit church that has been right here for 60 years, that’s giant information.”
• The Ventura Church of Christ in California is bouncing again after a plague downturn. “New individuals are coming to church, calling our church their house and getting baptized,” minister Andrew Hill mentioned.
• Talking of COVID-19, the North Tuscaloosa Church of Christ in Alabama is praising God for the restoration of member Danny Turbines. The husband of Heather and father of 5 “after all left the medical institution after 330 days and a lung transplant,” mentioned Calvin Cockrell, the church’s younger adults minister.
“We went from considering we’d be there a few days not to realizing if…if I’d ever get to peer him once more.” https://t.co/CH6cfMDMra
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• For the primary time in 3 years, the Soldier Creek Church of Christ in Piedmont, Okla., made its annual venture commute to the Navajo Country, minister Ken Richter mentioned. The early life crew labored with the Castle Defiance Church of Christ in Arizona, the place Terry Laurence preaches.
“The reservation has stricter COVID regulations, and we nonetheless needed to do all of Holiday Bible College outdoor,” Richter mentioned. “We additionally had an afternoon of chopping picket within the woodland, as many old Navajos nonetheless warmth with log fires.”
• The McDermott Street Church of Christ in Plano, Texas, is sending Caleb Kirkwood to Estonia to paintings with Camp Balchyoca (Baltic Christian Early life Camp). Kirkwood is a resident director at Oklahoma Christian College.
“That is his 3rd 12 months and almost certainly McDermott’s tenth 12 months to paintings with the congregation in Tallinn, Estonia,” mentioned Lisa Kirkwood, Caleb’s mom.
• The Rochester Church of Christ in Minnesota is making “birthing packs” for ladies in Malawi, mentioned Patti Sikes, spouse of minister Steve Sikes.
Final 12 months, a lady from Malawi started finding out with the church — easiest identified for its Palms of Compassion ministry for Mayo Medical institution sufferers. “We are actually ministering to girls from Malawi in many alternative techniques and be offering a category known as ‘WOW! Ladies Opening the Phrase — Bible 101,’” Patti Sikes mentioned.
In Chernivtsi, Adi Voicu of Romania and Dennis Zolotaryov of Ukraine load Ukrainian- and Russian-language Bibles from Japanese Ecu Undertaking for shipping to Romania. The Bibles shall be given to Ukrainian refugees.
• John Walker Moore, minister for the East Finish Church of Christ in East Hampton, N.Y., mentioned, “The little congregation I serve has already given an important sum to Ukrainian refugee paintings, is settling on a present to a Ugandan orphanage/faculty and can, in fact, quickly be in the hunt for some other nation designated with the lead letter ‘U.’”
• The Collegeside Church of Christ in Cookeville, Tenn., is launching a ministry coaching camp to type vocational ministry. “This shall be in the similar vein because the Preacher’s Coaching Camp on the Pennington Bend Church of Christ in Nashville that came about for a few years,” minister John Nichols mentioned.
• Charlie Johanson, minister for the Brentwood Oaks Church of Christ in Austin, Texas, mentioned, “The Spirit has been actively main us to make connections with a neighborhood basic faculty and serve the encompassing neighborhood in new and recent techniques. God is at the transfer. We’re seeking to stay up.”
Bennett Ross, virtually 4, takes a swing at his first T-ball recreation.
On a non-public notice, my 1-year-old granddaughter, Norah, simply took her first steps. My grandson, Bennett, virtually 4, simply performed his first T-ball recreation and mentioned a truly candy prayer at breakfast the opposite day.
BOBBY ROSS JR. is Editor-in-Leader of The Christian Chronicle. Succeed in him at [email protected].
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